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Demand for the stretched-out sleepers began to heat up after a 1982 congressional decision allowing longer cab lengths without a corresponding cut in precious cargo space. A majority of the 15,000 tractors produced by California's Peterbilt truck company now have some type of sleeper accoutrement. Double Eagle Industries of Shipshewana, Ind., which expects to produce 250 of the longer units this year, has fallen four months behind orders. Made of aluminum to save weight, the mobile home-like sleepers range in length from 28 in. to 120 in. front to back and cost from...
...then brings himself up short again: "I didn't ever really want to be a lawyer. I was just a professional student. All I figured was that at least I could talk to my cousin the lawyer. I've been representing a lot of airlines, but how many crushed cargo cases can I stand?" Thus Malcolm L. Kushner, 32, becomes a humor consultant...
...other sun-center starting with an M, "the new Malibu look" has has asymmetrical shirts, pants with cargo pockets, pencil pockets, bomb bay pockets, and even pocket pockets, and wide-shouldered, durable windbreakers in every shade compatible with sand
...service will use the airline's regular Airbus A300 passenger jets. Instead of carrying passengers' luggage, though, the cargo bellies will be packed with overnight-delivery packages. The travelers seated in the cabin above may either bring their baggage aboard or check it for an extra $10 a bag. Snacks will be available for $4. All the freight flights will have a middle-of-the-night layover of about one hour in Houston...
...drug trade south of the border. One night last week, four Mexican police officers and a civilian were shot dead trying to stop a tanker truck loaded with marijuana from going through a Customs post near San Fernando, Mexico, about 90 miles from the Texas border at Brownsville. The cargo and three suspects were finally seized 25 miles south of the border city of Reynosa, Mexico, but the original drivers had escaped. In his press conference last week, Ambassador Gavin quoted Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who called the drug crisis "a cancer" on both countries. Said Gavin...