The Box
The Box. A haulage firm near Ipswich in June 1968. The new container berths at Felixstowe are taking ships that carry their cargo in steel boxes, craned…
Twenty feet of steel box. No more loading by hand.
A haulage firm near Ipswich in June 1968. The new container berths at Felixstowe are taking ships that carry their cargo in steel boxes, craned straight onto a lorry. Your trailers are flatbeds and your drivers rope and sheet every load. The old docks are fighting the boxes, and Felixstowe has none of their labour rules.
- Starts
- June 1968
- Length
- two years
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Scored on
- Reach £380,000 of annual sales
- Business
- Haulage Firm
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