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...represents Roxbury, spent his summer try to stave off his seventh license suspension. Turner has been issued 31 parking tickets since January 2001. His RMV record runs five pages long. His most recent scuffle with law enforcement comes from the fact that he is driving a beat-up Chrysler that has failed its inspection. But this is nothing new for Turner, who has been known on several occasions to drive with an expired or revoked license. In addressing these violations to the Boston Herald this summer, the councilor, who bills himself as “Bald and Bold...
...quarter of all U.S. trade with Canada comes across this four-lane bridge--6,000 trucks a day, one every 12 to 15 seconds, laden with lumber, steel, semiconductors, machinery, furniture, chemicals, produce, livestock and Canadian-made auto components for 41 GM, Ford and Chrysler assembly lines within a day's drive of Detroit. The task of policing the traffic is complicated by the area's large Middle Eastern population. Some customs officials say privately that if Ahmed Ressam--the al-Qaeda explosives courier arrested in Port Angeles, Wash., in 1999--had crossed the border at Windsor-Detroit, he would...
...jump down their throats the minute they see any backsliding. Wootliff says he was exasperated to watch so many environmental groups take special aim at Ford Motor, arguably Detroit's most environmentally friendly carmaker, during the latest fight in Congress over fuel-efficiency standards (in which Ford, GM and Chrysler all fought to preserve the status quo). "For goodness' sake, stop alienating your supporters," he warns. "Going after Ford will mean fewer, not more, CEOs will turn around and say protecting the environment is the right thing...
Last spring, when Daimler Chrysler offered early retirement to thousands of older autoworkers, it got more than it bargained for. So many people accepted the deal that the company faced a potential shortage of critical skills at its plants and had to withdraw some offers. With half the auto industry's work force eligible to retire in the next five years, Ford and GM took Chrysler's lead and scaled back their early-retirement programs...
...Will customers keep coming without them? Again, it was the carmakers' optimism about consumer demand that cheered investors: GM now plans to crank out 12 percent more vehicles this Q2 than last year's. Chrysler, similarly sunny, will operate 14 of its 17 assembly plants on overtime in the second quarter. And Ford? Well, Ford does expect the fleet-sales business to pick back up as soon as the travel industry does...