Transportation, Distribution & Logistics

"Taking the road to a career in Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics is well worth the ride. Doing business in America means moving people, raw materials, and products by road, rail, air, and water. To keep things moving requires millions of workers in supporting industries such as infrastructure planning and management, logistics, and maintenance of vehicles and facilities. The variety of opportunities is dizzying, but to get ahead it helps to have a solid technical background. Individuals from automobile service technicians to airline pilots find their jobs improved and enriched by technical advances."

 

 

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Studying Logistics with Let’s Go Careers
Studying Logistics with Let’s Go Careers

Lesson

Grades: 10

Students will watch Let’s Go Career Videos on logistics and complete learning activities to learn about the basics of working in the logistics field. Students will learn about the characteristics of...

Thomas Jones, Import Team Leader | Let's Go! CAREERS
Thomas Jones, Import Team Leader | Let's Go! CAREERS

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Thomas Jones is an import team leader at John S. James Co., an international freight forwarder and customs brokerage company. Growing up in Charleston, Thomas has always been fascinated by the...
Lola Salas, Truck Driver | Let's Go! CAREERS
Lola Salas, Truck Driver | Let's Go! CAREERS

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Hilda (Lola) Salas is a professional truck driver at Hunter Transportation. At the age of eight, she became fascinated when she saw a woman truck driver and had wanted to become one every since. Lola...
"Bio Joe" Renwick, Transportation | Let's Go! CAREERS
"Bio Joe" Renwick, Transportation | Let's Go! CAREERS

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Green Energy Biofuel recycles waste vegetable oil and cooking oil into usable, clean biofuel. Company founder, "Bio Joe" Renwick has dedicated years to researching and perfecting biofuel production...
Automotive Technician | I Made It ... You Can, Too
Automotive Technician | I Made It ... You Can, Too

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Automotive technicians inspect, maintain, and repair cars and trucks, often with the help of computers. They typically work on brake and hydraulic systems, exhaust, fuel ignition and electrical...
Lighthouses | History Of SC Slide Collection
Lighthouses | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 11

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Shipping traffic moving in and out of the harbors along the Carolina coast depended upon a series of lighthouses to guide them through sometimes narrow and treacherous channels in the complicated...
Robert, Henry Martyn | South Carolina Public Radio
Robert, Henry Martyn | South Carolina Public Radio

Audio

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

“R” is for Robert, Henry Martyn [1837-1923]. Engineer, author. Born in South Carolina, Robert’s family moved to Ohio in 1851. After graduating from West Point in 1857, he began a forty-four year...
Hunting Island State Park | Destination: SC Parks
Hunting Island State Park | Destination: SC Parks

Video

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Located in Beaufort County, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built Hunting Island State Park in 1938. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had established the CCC, a federally funded...
Always First: The SC Air National Guard, Part 5 5
Always First: The SC Air National Guard, Part 5
Episode 5

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

The strength of the South Carolina Air National Guard has always been its people. And what has given these people their best opportunity to excel is great aircraft. It started with the P-51 Mustang...
South Carolina Ports Authority Harbor Deepening
South Carolina Ports Authority Harbor Deepening

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Recently, the South Carolina Ports Authority exported its two millionth BMW which was manufactured at the plant in Greer. Plans are underway to deepen the Port, which will expand the Port's...
Francine Jackson, School Bus Driver | Original SC
Francine Jackson, School Bus Driver | Original SC

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Francine Jackson is known to go the extra mile for students riding her No. 6 school bus. She scours the stores and internet for costumes to wear on holidays, just to see the looks on students faces...
William T. Cassels, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile
William T. Cassels, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

William T. Cassels, Jr. (Born May 22, 1929) As chairman and chief executive officer of Southeastern Freight Lines, Bill Cassels guides the fortunes of one of South Carolina's largest privately held...
Wilbur S. Smith | Legacy of Leadership Interview
Wilbur S. Smith | Legacy of Leadership Interview

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

An interview with Wilbur S. Smith. Wilbur S. Smith (1911–1990) Wilbur Smith's name is probably known in more places around the world today than any other South Carolinian's. The traffic consulting...
Wilbur S. Smith | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Wilbur S. Smith | Legacy of Leadership Profile

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A profile of Wilbur Stevenson Smith. Wilbur S. Smith (1911–1990) Wilbur Smith's name is probably known in more places around the world today than any other South Carolinian's. The traffic consulting...
William J. Detyens | Legacy of Leadership Profile
William J. Detyens | Legacy of Leadership Profile

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

William J. Detyens (1917-2002) Bill Detyens has lived in semiretirement much as he has lived the rest of his life: full speed ahead. He could be at his Rebellion Farms home or office on Clements Ferry...