Moving Goods In The Community

[Music] [Music] in every Community you can see Goods being moved from one place to another what does goods mean Goods is a name we use for many things our food our clothing the things we use in our homes are called Goods goods are carried on trucks right there are different kinds of goods and different kinds of trucks to carry them the trucks take Goods to many different places in the community we're going to see some of those places and find out why they need to have Goods brought to [Music] them of course we want to remember that trucks are only one of the ways that we use for moving Goods [Music] you can also see Goods being moved on a [Music] train there are a lot of different kinds of railroad cars because they have to carry different kinds of goods sometimes you can see the things train is car in every Community there are many places that need goods mean like homes hey there's a truck at my house let's go see what they brought when we buy something big or heavy we usually have it delivered on a [Music] truck truck deliver Goods to many different kinds of homes homes in tall apartment buildings homes in smaller [Music] buildings things don't always come on trucks no not always but usually they [Music] do what are some more things that might be delivered to [Music] us many of the goods we need can be delivered to homes but not [Music] everything we go to a store to get them here's a big store a department store we can buy many different kinds of goods in a department store do trucks bring all these things to the store right big stores have places called loading docks where the goods they need are delivered all of the stores in a community have Goods brought to them to be sold there are many other places that also need goods for instance the places where people work to make things they're putting off a building they need things to build little with here's another place where people work to make things a factory what kind of goods do you think a truck might bring to a factory these sacks contain plastic material that will be used in making toys this kind of goods is called raw materials a factory turns raw materials into Goods that we can use what's in the boxes these are the toys that were made from the raw materials they're ready to be loaded onto another truck so we also need trucks to take finished goods away from a factory do they take them to a store now probably not right away most likely they'll go to a place called a warehouse into the warehouse go trucks carrying goods from many different factories the goods will be kept here until a store needs them then out of the warehouse come big trucks that will take the goods to a store and from another part of the warehouse come smaller trucks that will take Goods directly to people's homes some factories use raw materials that are very large and heavy they have their own railroad tracks yes a railroad is a good way to bring heavy materials to a factory now they're unloading the railroad cars can you guess what the factory will make from these materials cars that's right this is an automob assembly plant where are the cars going they're being loaded on special railroad cars to be carried away from the factory special trucks are also used to carry automobiles away from the factory there are many kinds of goods that must be carried on special trucks here's another special truck gasoline truck it's delivering gasoline to the gas station look he's putting the gasoline into the ground well not exactly there's a big tank under the ground that holds the gasoline here's another special kind of truck what's special about it it's a refrigerator truck that's because it's used to carry meat and meat will spoil if it's not kept cold this man is delivering another kind of food that also has to be kept C fruits and vegetables are delivered to the store every day so they'll be fresh when we buy them so many kinds of trucks are used to carry goods from one place in the community to another trucks may also be used to bring goods from other communities a long distance [Music] away what are some other ways of bringing goods from other [Music] communities there are many ways of moving Goods some are faster than others some are cheaper some can handle loads that others cannot