The photo opportunity is a time-honored political maneuver after a natural disaster, and Trump put his own spin on it, traveling with an 18-wheel transfer truck full of supplies to hand out to crowds.
The current system in Laredo is an elaborate handoff: A Mexican trucker delivers goods to the border, where a transfer truck carries the goods across the Rio Grande, with an American truck picking up the load for delivery to its final destination.
Until now, the trucks had to stop at the border, making Laredo the handoff point for tens of billions of dollars in international cargo and creating a miniature economy of transfer trucks, warehouses and hundreds of customs brokers.
"We could hitchhike, transfer from truck to truck, or, if we couldn't catch one of them, we'd go to the train yard, 'cause the railroad was all through that part of the country then".
The bulk of the business is fixing up money-transfer trucks, but ordinary citizens come in and ask to have their private cars armor plated.
By 1994 he'd transferred trucking to his cousins and within three years had leased an old theater in south New Delhi, then showing sleaze, and began converting it to a four-screen, 1,000-seater multiplex.
Mr. Fenno said the depot here fills seven or eight rail cars a day, roughly 100 tons, but operates according to environmental standards and recently constructed a building in which the transfer from truck to train actually takes place.
The cargo pod will have interior space of roughly 8 feet by 21 inches wide and 16 inches high, and it's designed so that 40 can be fit in a standard 20-foot shipping container, allowing for easy transfer to truck and ship.
The automaker's factory workers are also looking at thousands of job cuts, though some U.S. workers could transfer to truck or SUV factories that are increasing production.
They were driven from one place to another, transferred from truck to truck.
Break-bulk cargo, laboriously sorted onshore, has long since given way to uniform steel containers, transferred to truck or train by crane or conveyor belt.
