Background
DeBoer, David James was born on April 11, 1938 in Kalamazoo. Son of James Frederick and Marion Elaine (Teal) DeB.
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217 illustrations, car drawings, bibliography and index. This is a second edition with updated information, images and tables. Piggyback and Containers: A History of Rail Intermodal on America's Steel Highway presents the complete intermodal story. The development of Gene Ryan's Rail Trailer Company, General Motors flirtation with a depressed center-car design, the establishment of Trailer Train, Southern Pacific's truck-trailer train experiment between Los Angeles and San Francisco (handling only company owned Pacific Motor Trucking Trailers), the separation of Pennsylvania Railroad's influence over Trailer Train, the combination of rail-highway units familiarly called Rail Van and RoadRailer. Featured are the various hitch arrangements, the once popular trailer-leasing program, the expansion of United Parcel from a department store delivery service to the nation's largest freight carrier and their influence on rail-piggyback.
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DeBoer, David James was born on April 11, 1938 in Kalamazoo. Son of James Frederick and Marion Elaine (Teal) DeB.
AB, University of Michigan, 1960; Master of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1963.
Assistant director market research, New York Center R.R., New York City, 1963-1969; manager cargo marketing, Trans World Airlines, New York City, 1969-1971; director office of policy, unites states department Transportation-Federal R.R. Administration, Washington, 1971-1977; office of policy, Interstate Commerce Committee, Washington, 1977-1978; assistant vice president, Southern Pacific Railroad, San Francisco, 1978-1984; president, Greenbrier Intermodal, Walnut Creek, California, since 1984.
(217 illustrations, car drawings, bibliography and index. ...)
Vice chair citizens advisory committee Metropolitan Transport Committee, Bay Area, 1996. Member Intermodal Association North America (board directors 1991-1997, chairman 1997, Silver Kingpin award 1997), National Rail Intermodal Association (board directors 1982-1991), University Club San Francisco.
Married Sandra Lou Ogden, August 29, 1959. Children: Kathleen, James, Christopher.