  Feature Column  Keep on Trucking  Anyone sitting in traffic in
a large city knows that trucks come in a staggering array of
types, ranging from relatively small delivery trucks to the
giant trucks that carry ore from mines to other locations. We
will see that there are different types of problems that arise
for these different types of trucks....  Joseph Malkevitch York
College (CUNY) malkevitch at  Email to a friendMail to a friend
Print this articlePrint this article    Love may make the world
go round but what makes our daily lives so much easier is
trucks. Trucks deliver the food that we eat to the supermarkets
and restaurants we use, they deliver the gasoline to the
stations where we refill the gas tanks in our cars, and they are
responsible for a huge part of the movement of supplies
throughout local regions and nationally.  And what helps make it
possible for trucks to carry out all the deliveries they do is
mathematics.  Photo of a large truck  (Photo courtesy of
Wikipedia)   During World War II the