Flying Flatbeds

rookietrucker · Jan 26, 2011

Flying Flatbeds

For almost 10 years now, Barry Prentice has been talking about the potential of airships to revolutionize freight transport in Canada. The professor of supply chain management at the I.H. Asper School of Business, Transport Institute, at the University of Manitoba, has spoken to transportation experts, supply chain leaders, entrepreneurs, the media, government bureaucrats, and elected officials. He's spoken at conferences, at public meetings, in private offices, in hotel lobbies, and around water coolers.

The message is always the same: with a little vision, leadership, and investment, Canada could become a world exporter of airship technology -- and reap huge economic benefits along the way. He is a tireless promoter of a sixth mode of transportation -- a supplementary mode to trucks, trains, boats, planes, and pipelines.

"In the space of two years we could be using airships. For the price of a couple of bridges, we could have an industry," he says, with all the passion of a preacher. Indeed, he has been called an "evangelist" on the subject. The insult -- if that's how it was meant -- rolls off his back.

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Meltom · Jan 26, 2011

Sounds cool to me.

zentrucking · Jan 26, 2011

They already have something called the C130 ...

Though the Germans already pioneered airships.

Hardlyevr · Jan 26, 2011

Well between the government and truckdrivers, there is plenty of hot air available!

MrEd · Jan 29, 2012

Instead of truck driving schools, there would be blimp pilot schools. Probably still have logbooks, and hours of service, but no weigh stations.

sbeatty1983 · Jan 29, 2012

You think a 48k coil does alot of damage coming off a truck at 65mph. Imagine what it would do at terminal velocity

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