#industrial transport

[townpostin]

Local Trailer Union Threatens Strike Over Quick Tender Release

Trailer owners Oppose Issue of New Transport Tender Amid Election Period Tensions Key Points: * Trailer owners demand 10% annual rate hike in new tender terms * Union protests tender release without prior consultation during elections * Previous strike suspended under police pressure, parking issues unresolved JAMSHEDPUR – Local trailer owners threaten massive protest alleging that the company…

[reasonsforhope]

"This week, the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a new rule requiring airlines to make bathrooms more accessible for disabled people. All new single-aisle aircraft will be fitted with fully-accessible lavatories.

Most flights inside the United States are single-aisle and as technology has improved, they are used more frequently for long flights, including coast-to-coast trips that can last as long as six hours. Double-aisle plans are already subject to the regulation but are primarily used for international flights.

Out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced the new regulations, saying, “Traveling can be stressful enough without worrying about being able to access a restroom; yet today, millions of wheelchair users are forced to choose between dehydrating themselves before boarding a plane or avoiding air travel altogether.” ...

The secretary has made it a priority to improve service on airlines during his tenure. In 2022, six airlines were forced to pay millions of dollars in refunds to hundreds of thousands of customers and were also fined millions for causing the issues. The department’s firm stance on the side of customers has continued through this year after multiple companies have had meltdowns, stranding thousands of travelers.

All planes delivered to airlines starting in 2026 must include several upgrades. Planes already in service will not need to be retrofitted unless the plane is renovated.

“These aircraft must have at least one lavatory of sufficient size to permit a passenger with a disability (with the help of an assistant, if necessary) to approach, enter, and maneuver within the aircraft lavatory, to use all lavatory facilities, and leave by means of the aircraft’s onboard wheelchair if necessary,” the DOT said in a statement.

Accessible faucets and controls, grab bars, accessible call buttons and door locks, minimum obstruction to the passage of an onboard wheelchair, and an available visual barrier for privacy are also required upgrades."

-via LGBTQ Nation, July 28, 2023

Wayyyyyyy fucking overdue but I'll take it!! Also, very nice curb cut effect: We all get to be less miserable on airplanes, and older people don't have to worry as much about airplane bathroom fall risks.

[officialrailscales]

Rattler + New Digs 🧐

Anchor | Carbon Black

QTR-LT Stop | Carbon Black

HTP Solo’s | Black | MiniDot Texture | 1-Slot

HTP Solo’s | Black | MiniDot Texture | 1.5-Slot

MCX U-Rail Light Mount | Carbon Black

MCX CSMR Button | Carbon Black

Night Patch Medallion | Coyote / Glow

- RS

[sarahjacobs]

based on this. what if they sold papes and started a strike together. and they were both ponies! 😳

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[stave-writes]

Darlington (Chilchuck x GN!Reader)

Summary: First Meet With Chilchuck <3

If the Island Dungeon was known for one thing, it'd be danger. Then again that was the same for most Dungeons, but well...Lately, it'd gotten worse. Rumours of a Red Dragon prowling on a higher floor than usual and even the Dungeon Lord appearing higher than normal!

As a traveller to the island, you'd chosen to stay out of the dungeon. You'd be either an idiot to enter without a reliable party and most of those wouldn't take a new adventurer like you... Although, you had made a "business contact" which turned out to be a friendship. Chilchuck Tims, the head of the Half-foot union, was said contact.

The rumours you'd heard didn't paint him in a very good light, per se. Other half-foots called him greedy, demanding his pay upfront and taking union dues from members. Parties without a half-foot called him uncooperative and stubborn in terms of pricing, even if he was a skilled and tenured locksmith.

So by the time you'd met him, there was a small impression forming in the back of your mind despite your better judgment. Yet...he wasn't at all the way.

Chilchuck was mild-mannered, with a voice in an even tone and despite his race's common features, it was easy to tell he wasn't all that young. His hair was grey in places, and visible tear-throughs (wrinkles just beneath the eyes). Despite his professional demeanour, there was a sense of tiredness to him. Languished sighs and irritation at his fellow party members.

But he was kind enough to you. A bit of a smile while talking to you, or a careful piece of advice. Unlike everyone had said him to be, he seemed to have a good heart. From what you could tell, who knew, maybe it was just how professionals were on the island.

It'd been about a week since you last talked to him, his party had gone into the depths of the dungeon and not returned. It was concerning, but you weren't that close anyways...no use for your worries. A hope that he would come back safe is what you kept as you went on with your business.

Sorry this is so short! tbh I kind of forgot where I wanted to go with this </3 Buuut, promise I'll make a continuation sometime so you can get some romance content chil fandom

[nocternalrandomness]

Crusader Industries C2 Hercules Starlifter

[hms-no-fun]

Why do you, as a marxist, talk like a liberal

[awkward-teabag]

Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.

Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.

And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.

Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.

Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.

We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.

It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.

Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.

[kodachrome-net]

Burlington Zephyr, 2015

[vintage-london-images]

Great Paul, the largest bell ever cast in the British Isles, and the largest still being rung here is to be found at St Paul's Cathedral in London. It was originally commissioned in the mid 19th century at the height of empire, when there was a penchant for ambitious monumental projects and objects to project British Power and industrial prowess.

Cast in Loughborough in 1881, the 16 ton bell for St Paul's became known as Great Paul because of its size, but the name wasn't ever its official name. Previously the largest bell in use had been Big Ben at 13.5-ton. Once finished the bell had to be transported the 140 miles to London, with several ideas put forward and variously hauliers, boat owners and railway companies were consulted, including a quite serious suggestion of harnessing several elephants to heave the bell, but it was decided such animals are difficult to acquire in Britain.

The bell was finally loaded onto a specially constructed carriage which was to be drawn and pushed by steam engines. It took 11 days to reach London in a large convoy attended by spare vehicles and maintenance men, and also newspaper reporters. It was later found that over-night stops had to be guarded to stop vandals trying to inscribe their initials on the bell with chalks and chisels. Eventually in May 1882, Great Paul arrived in London where it was later installed in the cathedral’s southwestern tower, where it still hangs today.

[theseworldsareyours]

Orbital Utility by Edouard Groult

[global-twilight]

Interstitial Spaces - Industrial Decay

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Cologne, Germany

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[kply-industries]

The New KPLY rail sedan. Because the Department of Transportation isn't the boss of us.