Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With leasing, we'd be responsible for everything. To keep up, we'd have to work longer hours, we'd make less money, and we'd have no security.' Peter Lober, a driver for seven years with the Yellow Cab Company, said last night...
Donald Mullin, the president of Teamsters 496, told the council that in Boston, where most cabbies lease their taxis, if a driver "books $60 in a shift after gas and oil he'll make $13.50. "If a cabbie is driving for a company, he will clear close to $30 in a shift, Mullins added...
...patrol car appears in the driver's rearview mirror, and the flashing light goes on. The driver anxiously pulls over, and the policeman asks to see his license and registration. It is just a routine check; the driver has not been speeding or doing anything noticeably wrong. Then the officer glimpses the bag of marijuana...
Such spot checks by police are common practice. Last week, by a vote of 8 to 1. the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they are unconstitutional. No longer will police be able to stop a car at random to look at a driver's credentials unless the officer has some objective reason to suspect that the law has been broken. The case before the court involved a Delaware driver named William Prouse, 20, who was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana after his car was stopped during a "routine" license check in 1976. Police Officer Anthony Avena...
...enough to outweigh the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. There is, said White, "a 'grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority"; people have as much reason to expect privacy from government intrusion in their cars, he added, as they do in their...