The result was that huge amounts of goods were effectively stored on trucks, ready to go at any time, and as close to the factories as possible. The car companies had simply passed the costs of storage and stock control back to their suppliers. In addition, whole new towns and service areas sprung up in the hinterlands of the factories to feed and water the waiting truckers, fundamentally altering the geographies of manufacturing towns. Companies are deploying these lessons, and their effects, at the level of individuals, passing costs onto their employees and demanding that they submit their
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