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.
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.
"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".
They were driven from one place to another, transferred from truck to truck.
The southbound train is part of an intermodal transport chain: the trailers are transferred to trucks and transported to the shops in Småland (from the railway station in Alvesta) and Skåne (from the railway station in Helsingborg).
Big container ships will dock here and offload their cargoes onto smaller barges which will then travel 225km up the Kaladan before transferring onto trucks and into India.
The old bells, meanwhile, had embarked on a monthlong transatlantic voyage to St . Petersburg where they were transferred to trucks and conveyed to Moscow via Novgorod and Tver.
He says he has persuaded several large plastics companies to ship resins by rail to Ogdensburg, where the material will be transferred to trucks and sent to Canada.
