(Part 2) Best transportation industry books according to redditors
We found 84 Reddit comments discussing the best transportation industry books. We ranked the 45 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
My brother wrote this!
Edit: By the way, buy his book!
search for maritime history, merchant navy or merchant marine rather than "naval", "naval" implies military.
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https://www.amazon.com/s?k=maritime+history&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
https://www.amazon.com/History-British-Merchant-Navy-Omnibus-ebook/dp/B07D5G7YP7/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=merchant+navy&qid=1563643354&s=books&sr=1-2
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=merchant+marine&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
https://www.amazon.com/Maritime-Logistics-Complete-Effective-Management/dp/0749463694/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?keywords=commercial+maritime+logistics&qid=1563643641&s=books&sr=1-2-fkmr1
I actually drew one from 1875.
As for books, the canonical source for routings is Hennick's The Streetcars of New Orleans.
This is cited in some books as an example of groupthink: the fact individuals in the group knew about it, yet due to conformity were pressured into not escalating it (here's a PDF on the subject). Succumbing to authority against common sense is also the reason for a lot of air craft disasters up into the 1980s. This led to the field of Crew Resource Management specifically aimed at keeping the authority falloff smaller, among other changes, and aircraft disasters attributed to human error went down quite a bit afterwards. Here's an incredible book on the subject (the original title translates to Fatal Errors).
Actually, much of the world's most advanced technology results directly from government research and regulation.
Here are a couple good books on the topic:
http://www.amazon.com/State-Innovation-Governments-Technology-Development/dp/1594518246
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Race-Global-Quest-Future/dp/1476773505/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458672206&sr=1-2&keywords=the+great+race
TPS predates Six Sigma and Lean Production. Lean actually came out of TPS. As they show in the video, Lean can be applied to pretty much any process. Toyota uses it for manufacturing, here they apply it in a food bank, and it is also widely used in software development.
Notice how they apply Value Stream Mapping. They start by looking at what is happening, and listing all the steps that add value, and those that do not. Putting food in a box adds value, running around to get the stuff does not add value and is waste. By eliminating waste they can reduce the takt time from 3 minutes to 11 seconds.
Another important aspect of TPS is respect for people. In its entire history, Toyota has never laid off any (salaried) workers during hard times. Instead it uses the free time to invest in kaizen.
In this case, respect for people means giving back to the American people, because the USA helped rebuild Japan after WW2.
If you want to learn more about TPS, go read Toyota Production System: Beyond Large Scale Production, written by Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System.
I can also recommend The Toyota Way and The Toyota Way To Lean Leadership. These are a bit more recent and an excellent insight in the Toyota way of working.
Oh man, what a nice find. I remember riding in these as a kid and they were just terrible.
Random fact: There is only one registered Yugo in Florida
For a fun read, get The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
You know what, let me re-phrase this a different way... I gave you two colossal examples of how deregulation was a disaster.
So prove to me it's not. Show me some examples where deregulation has been just peachy keen for industry.
Airlines? Not hardly:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-morris/airline-deregulation-ideology-over-evidence_b_4399150.html
"Thirty years later all but a handful of new competitors have disappeared. In that time more than 150 airlines have sought bankruptcy protection or gone out of business. Before deregulation 10 major airlines controlled 90 percent of the market. Today, as noted, four control 85 percent."
Trucking? Maybe we should ask Tracy Morgan how he feels about that. Good book here:
http://www.amazon.com/Sweatshops-Wheels-Winners-Trucking-Deregulation/dp/0195128869
"In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades."
But hey, as long as WalMart keeps dropping prices, right?
I quite enjoyed Air Babylon.
Have a look at the Diving Heritage website, http://www.divingheritage.com. Some really interesting suits that they have there.
For books I would recommend The Professional Diver's Handbook, http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Divers-Handbook-John-Bevan/dp/0950824267. Might be a little dense on the technical information, but considered invaluable by the commercial diving industry.
Also have a look at the US Navy Diving Manual. You should be able to find a pdf version with a Google search.
I just cracked open my Joe Sackey GTO book (page 54) and the seats/seat belt (mounting location) are definitely not in line with what I'm seeing as an original. If you see it again and could get better interior pics that would be helpful as usually that's where kits fall way short. There may have been some differences in the production run but the details of the interior still lead me to believe it's a kit (that and the "casual" driving).
EDIT: Also, if you can get a shot of the engine through the cover that will also be pretty obvious. It'll be easy to see if there really is a twin turbo 8 under there.
No estoy defendiendo al Gobierno Federal, estoy tratando de mostrarte como contestar "People, process & Tools," no le ayuda a nadie. Ademas de que en mi opinion es choro mareador, ya no se necesita ser un magnate (lol) o un intelectual, para llegar a esas conclusiones.
Las instituciones de gobierno no son compañias privadas que tienen que competir para sobrevivir.
Por ultimo, te viste bien ignorante con lo de:
>Aaahh, y reducir el éxito de Toyota a la adopción de un método es muy simplista no crees ?
Hay un un chingo de libros al respecto, pero a quien lo que importa lo que piense el Presidente y CEO de Toyota:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Toyota-Way-Lean-Leadership/dp/1491514701
My trip was Port Washington-Cape May, Cape may - Ocean City MD, Ocean City - Norfolk, then inside for a few days.
Then Beaufort NC - Charleston, Charleston - West Palm Beach. West Palm Beach arrival was December 10th.
Since then I've put in at Lauderdale, Miami, Largo, Marathon, Sanibel, Marco, and Key West.
As late as you're going you're going to encounter a VERY high chance of gales. I was lucky with strong wind but not too strong, from behind, but my jumps weren't longer than single overnights until I was well south of Hatteras. I did this because of the high incidence of gales. Even the Carolinas will be rough when you're going and I'd say you probably want to be at least in Charleston before aiming for the Bahamas. I wouldn't do the "proper" route to the Caribbean (nonstop from Norfolk north of the Bahamas) that late; to my knowledge it's certainly a heavy weather passage in the winter.
Conditions, here's the standard:
http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=msi_portal_page_62&pubCode=0003
If you can't find a set you can print the PDFs on blueprint paper for $10 each at Staples or Office Depot.
Alternatively, here's Jimmy Cornell's update:
https://www.amazon.com/Cornells-Ocean-Atlas-Charts-Oceans/dp/0955639654
Cornell also has "World Cruising Routes." Good passage information there.
when I first read this book Beijing Jeep a book from 1989 about the problems of AMC and it's operations in China, I thought it was an out-of date snapshot of our experience and attitudes towards China in the past. Now, reading about the issues that American companies face in China, this book seems eerily relevant.
>Jim Mann explains how some of the world's savviest executives completely misjudged the business climate and recounts how the Chinese, who acquired valuable new technology at virtually no expense to themselves, ultimately outcapitalized the capitalists.
Here are some books I was able to dig up myself, are they any good?
A Practical Guide to Transportation and Logistics
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
How To Become A Successful Freight Broker: My Journey from Fast Food Manager to Freight Broker
Joe Sutter (father of the 747) wrote 2 books I believe.
here you go :)
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Thing is I know how the defense industry game is played. My Father was an executive at McDonnell Douglas. I spent enough time around him and folks like Tom Gunn (who wrote a book about his experience: http://www.amazon.com/Gunn-Sights-High-Stakes-International-Aerospace/dp/1591143462). Spent a decade between working as a congressional staffer and then for other defense agencies before deciding to go to law school.
At the same time the military and defense contractors spin a lot of bullshit too. Like their "assessments" of the MIG-25. Which all turned out to be bullshit. It wasn't nearly the threat it was made up to be. And I've seen that time and again.
And notice I said the F-22 program. We spent a lot of money on the F-22 for a plane to be deployed in such limited numbers and a role that has little chance of ever being used. The only time you need air superiority would be for defense or the opening hours of a war. The Israelis showed how you destroy an air force in 67: on the ground. Because in the opening hours of any war fixed installations like airbases are getting hit. So either all those expensive F-22's get rendered useless or the enemy's air force gets rendered useless. Either way, we didn't need F-22's. An upgraded F-15's to replace old airframes would have done the job just fine until 2020. At which point we may have needed a new fighter design.
And I saw it from other branches as well. In the early 2000's the Army was wanted to build an 80 ton main battle tank to replace the 60 ton Abrams which we couldn't get to the battlefields of Afghanistan in a timely manner.
I know this is a comedic version of how the M2 was developed, but it's not as funny if you've seen similar shit go on in real life from the inside. So I'll just leave this here: http://youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA
I actually just read a book about it "No One At The Wheel" by Sam Schwartz. https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Wheel-Driverless-Future/dp/1610398653/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=UQ3P8VL1IPM3&keywords=sam+schwartz+no+one+at+the+wheel&qid=1551227405&s=gateway&sprefix=sam+sch%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
It was pretty good and went through some of this stuff.