What do ya know about freight?
by Michele Regenold
Weird but true facts about how the stuff we buy moves around the world, across the country, and down the street. Test your knowledge (or your ability to guess) in our freight facts quiz. Click the right arrow to start.
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Comments (3)
Dec 20, 2007 Mr. Lucht writes
Good idea bt many "fiexes" are needed. Q2- The intermodal fruit tranis question has all of the fruit choices "dimmed" to the point you can hradly tell what they are. WHen you click on it to see it in color you have to say check answer to advance and then you get the question wrong. Also, it will not "reset", and after 2 wrong tries it freezes up. Q3- WHich product via which mode ... pics are so small and/or dark you can't tell what half of them are. I'll go back and start again from Q4. I'm sure I'll have more fixes later. -Al Lucht Tech. Ed. Teacher, Wauwatosa, WI
Dec 20, 2007 Mr. Lucht writes
Q3- WHich mode for which product ... is WRONG! I believe that the 4th tiny pic on the right is supposed to be coal. Coal is typically shipped via trains in hooper cars. The second best answer would have been ship, but that cam eup as wrong , too. Then the reset option froze up. This site is very poor. Your webmaster should be replaced by someone who knows how to test things out for "bugs" BEFORE they go onto the web.
Dec 20, 2007 Mr. Lucht writes
Wholly cow! DId anyone check any of these questions? Q3- Which mode to which product ... NONE OF THE MODES LIGHT UP AS CORRECT for any of the products!!! You should be ashamed of yourselves. Iowa State University is clearly a low-level educational institution to allow postcards promoting their new GO! website to be mailed out of state when they haven't even de-bugged the site or verified the accuracy of the answers to the questions. UW-Madison should be embarrassed to have its Center for Freight Research linked to such a bushleague site. I can't imagine ever wasting my student's valuable study time on this site or anything linked to ISU in the future.