Transportation Influence
The different types of Transportation Influence allow you to access a network of contacts involving the transportation and warehousing of goods (or individuals!) above or below the law.
Air Transportation
Air Transportation influence involves contacts within the air ports, airline companies, and various regulating bodies reporting to the FAA. For example: the employees of one or more airlines in specific particular, largely pilots and flight attendants, baggage and gate attendants, and general ground crew, the security teams and the employees of the actual airports, air traffic control and flight planning professionals such as dispatchers, flight operations officers, and alert service employees and FAA officials. Air Transportation reduces the difficulty of Influence actions that go through these channels.
Rail Transportation
From Amtrak to Maersk, Rail Transportation involves the movement and storage of anything going on a train, plus the employees, unions, and regulating bodies that fold into the industry. You know technicians, engineers, ticket agents, and on-board attendants. You know some movers and shakers in railway unions. If you're lucky you also are in good with administrative levels responsible for the logistics of maintaining the rail depots of the Bay, from Amtrak to the Port of Oakland. Rail Transportation reduces the difficulty of Influence actions that go through these channels.
Water Transportation
Water Transportation influence opens up contacts within cruise and cargo shipping, ship repair, commercial and sport fishing, ferry and excursion operations and other harbor services. You know the men on the piers, docks, boats and warehouses: various contract employees of the bay ferry and container shipping companies (such as Maersk), for example, customs officers, and a string of local dock-workers and their foremen. Your contacts also include some movers and shakers in unions like the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and, with luck, you can reach the administrative levels responsible for the logistics of maintaining the ports of the Bay, such as employees of the San Francisco and the Oakland Seaports. Water Transportation reduces the difficulty of Influence actions that go through these channels.
Road Transportation
From FedEx and Peterbilt to local moving companies, Road Transportation involves the movement and storage of anything going into a truck or trailer to be delivered (or warehoused) by a freight company on four wheels: your contacts include movers, couriers, truckers, and deliverers of private mail companies like UPS and FedEx ground transportation, and so on -- plus the employees, unions, and regulating bodies that fold into trucking. Road Transportation reduces the difficulty of Influence actions that go through these channels.
