Words matter. These are the best Freight Quotes from famous people such as Utah Phillips, Bill Moseley, James H. Clark, Laura Bell Bundy, Soren Skou, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn’t looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn’t hear or see coming.
I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it’s happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I’m trying not to look back and get dizzy!
I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.
If you havent been through anything difficult, the minute you do, it will hit you like a freight train and you wont know what to do because youve never been given the tools to deal with it.
The women’s movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn’t been built.
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it’s true; I was raised in a freight car.
I didn’t feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn’t get walked on by elephants.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark’s largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark’s GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation.
Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel… hopefully its not a freight train!
I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.
So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.
As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.
I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.
If we drive cost down, we will be able to live with low freight rates.
I’m like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.
Our priority has always been to have the lowest cost so we can be comfortable with weak freight rates. A big part of having the lowest cost is maintaining the largest network, and this means growing market share.
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
In the past, due to faulty economic policies like freight equalisation, resource-rich states like Odisha have suffered from the discriminatory policies of the Centre.
