Data on the cost of highway freight per mile and per ton-mile are now available in the Financial and Operating Statistics (F&OS) maintained by the American Trucking Associations and the Blue Book of Trucking Companies maintained by Transportation Technical Services of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Skimming and Scanning. Your perceptions of any written text are deepened through familiarity. One of the most effective methods for beginning the kind of thoughtful reading necessary for academic work is to get a general overview of the text before beginning to read it in detail. By first skimming a text, you can get a sense of its overall logical progression.
Braille writing, a tactile variant of a writing system. Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so, and a language is any specific example of such a system.