19 Oktober 2009

Bus Travel Savings Us

Families benefit the most from bus travel savings U.S., because some of the leading bus carries in North America, realize that when families travel together, there is a big possibility that more than one adult will be traveling, and that there will be several children traveling with each parent at any given time.

Most people would wonder why families would choose to travel via a bus line, rather than renting an automobile at a local airport. Families choose bus travel savings U.S. over the high priced car rental charges to save money. These high priced car rental charges quickly add up, when you take into consideration all of the factors that are involved when a large family tries to book a rental car.

Families are faced with the need to rent larger sized rental cars over the more economical rental car models to accommodate the number of people that are traveling with their families. With bus travel savings U.S., they simply need to board the bus and take a seat, let someone else do the driving, and they get to reach their desired destination for a very low price.

When comparing the cost to travel through both modes of travel, take this information into consideration. Each rental car reservation, requires a credit card for securing the rental reservation. Bus lines accept credit cards, but they are not required. Families achieve bus travel savings U.S., by not accruing high credit card bills at the end of their travel.

Families that use rental cars will naturally not receive any bus travel savings U.S. They will, however, be charged several charges for the rental car while it is in their possession. The basic charges for the car rental follow a formula based on the rental location, the type of vehicle selected, the number of days it will be rented, the cost of insurance coverage per day, and the charge for the number of miles that are placed on the vehicle during the rental. Final charges are realized only when they return the vehicle to the pre-specified rental location.

Bus travel savings U.S., are realized by families because their travel is at a set price, with no surprise charges at the end of their travel. All charges that the family bus travelers are taken care of at the time the bus ticket for each family member is issued. Bus travel savings U.S. can be further realized by the adults in the family that usually drive when they go on vacations. With bus travel, the driving is left to others, and the parents can actually enjoy the scenery along the travel route for a change, and spend more time with their families. This type of off-time, is priceless to them.

Additional discounts are afforded families when they choose to travel by bus. Bus travel savings are passed on to family members with age discounts for children under the age of 2 as no charge to travel, and children two to eleven are afforded a discount of 40% off the price of their bus ticket. If two parents travel, then four children can each travel for 40% discounted ticket rates. Students in the U.S. also receive a 15% savings on their bus travel savings U.S. ticket price.


Wholesale Beauty Products - How to Create Your Own Line

Selling beauty products is one of the most lucrative businesses you can be in, but not everyone can make shampoos, creams and mineral makeup. So all you have to do is simply find someone to make the product for you, put your label on it and ship it out to you, easy enough right? Well know it is, quite a few business in the beauty industry are actually creating the products, labeling them to get them into their clients hands so that you can resell them with ease.

The best way to start out selling beauty products is to find a company that has been doing it for years; we made it easy for you and listed it below. Once you get in contact with them and see how good the margins are you will fall in love with it just like we did.

There are tons of different beauty products that you can wholesale. You probably know by know that if it is a good product and it does what it says people will buy it no matter what.

Here are a few beauty products that can be wholesaled:

  • Mineral Makeup
  • Skin Care Products
  • Anti Aging Products
  • Eye Creams
  • Face Creams
  • Body lotions
  • Shampoos, Conditioners, Hair Repair Serums
  • Bath and Body Products
  • Face Washes, Toners, Moisturizers
  • Scrubs
  • Naturally Based Hair Products
  • Masks

A good way to do research is just by talking with your friends and seeing what they like and recommend. Magazines are another good way to research these products; websites are also a really good place to gather information. Between all of these resources you should have no problems picking out what you want to sell.

Don't be afraid to call up companies and ask what they offer, see if they can meet your needs. Look for a company that has low minimums, you don't want to have to order a palate full of products because you sold 3 or 4. Compare prices, but beware you get what you pay for, rule of thumb always get samples before you commit to anything.

So here are the steps:

  1. Decide on the products you want to sell
  2. Figure out whether you want your label or the manufactures label in the products
  3. Find a good company

Remember never move to fast you don't want to start out order huge quantities of product, you need to start out slow and build up into being the beauty business of your dreams.

If you have a passion for beauty products than it is well within your reach to have your own line of private label products. Just follow the easy steps. Earlier in the article I referred to a good company to buy wholesale beauty products, we trust them and have used them for years.

Tim Faber - EzineArticles Expert Author

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16 Oktober 2009

Is Lorry Driving What it Used to Be?

Currently, there is a feeling of real doom and gloom hanging over the logistics industry. You just have to look at the squeeze lorry drivers are facing with rising fuel prices, LEZ charges and congestion fees increasingly cropping up. On top of pretty much everyone feelking a financial pinch, a survey on our site has revealed that over half of our members are working in excess of 60 hours per week - it's no wonder there's a hankering for the 'good old days' of haulage. But was taking a backload then really any better?

In a 2006 article in the Independent, about the low number of young people taking up the profession, Nigel Baxter of RH Freight was keen to point out that things have gotten much better for lorry drivers: "It's a much more sophisticated industry these days, thanks to technology such as satellite navigation...Before the Road Transport Directive came into effect last year [2005], drivers typically worked 65 hours a week, whereas now we're down to 48 with more control over finish times... Health and safety has also been tightened up and the rules on manual handling have changed." He also described the logistics equipment as "far more lightweight and less arduous to use than in the past", suggesting a marked improvement in conditions for lorry drivers. Whether or not Baxter's firm is an exception rather than the rule (as mentioned above, our members are still working long hours), is a harking for the good old days of logistics just hopeless rose-tinted nostalgia, as he suggests?

Well, if you were to take a time machine back to the 1960s, the first thing you'd notice in your considerably less comfortable old lorry cab is the weather - whether you're in winter or in summer. That's right - whether the weather was hot or cold, you were stuck with it. In summer, with the windows rolled down, this wasn't such an issue, but in the freezing winter of 1962, with no cab heater (or an early inefficient model) several layers were far from optional in the old lorries!

Seatbelts only began to appear in certain cars in the 1960s, and they were a real rarity in old lorries - set against a debate over whether they aided safety or restricted escape in the event of being trapped. It's universally accepted that lorries are both more comfortable and safe than they used to be - and this comfort extended to the noise too. Many old lorries in the early 1960s had no noise blocking materials between the lorry driver and the main engine, making them extremely loud! Some cunning old lorry drivers would use blankets to cover the bonnet to dim the noise a bit, which would double up as insulation on some of the trucks with ill-fitting engine covers!

As for in-cab devices, you were mainly left to provide your own entertainment. In car radios were far from standard, and were not particularly widespread until the 70s. You could use a portable radio, but the thick roofs of the old lorry cabs meant that finding and keeping a good aerial signal was almost impossible. Cassette players were just coming into fashion around the 70s - later to be fitted into cars. Portable tape players weren't particularly power efficient and would be unlikely to last a significant part of any old lorry's journey.

haps the most convenient thing that we take for granted these days is the wide availability of the mobile phone. Nowadays, mobiles even have internet access on them, allowing easy communication wherever you are on the road, but in those days you were pretty much on your own in the old lorry. If you needed to urgently get into contact with 'base', you'd be at the mercy of finding a payphone - and you'd probably be left reversing the charges to your company!

Add to this the state of the roads in those days (balanced out by the lower volumes of traffic, but still) and the need to constantly monitor the security of the backload on your truck (the old ropes would shrink and tighten in rain, then dry out in sun, loosening the backload, amongst other hazards) and you begin to realise that modern logistics drivers have never had it so good. It's nice to look back nostalgically on times gone by, but give me my mixtapes and mobile phone any day of the week!

Lyall Cresswell is the Managing Director for the Transport Exchange Group. Haulage Exchange, their freight exchange for the 7.5 tonne and above market, offers an independent environment for its members to swap backloads.