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ROAD MOVIE is a pitifully clumsy yarn about a couple of truckers (Robert Drivas, Barry Bostwick), the hooker they pick up for relaxation (Regina Baff), and the interstate agonies of owning a rig and trying to haul your freight to Chicago on time - before the gas crisis. Director Joseph Strick has made several other films (The Balcony, Ulysses), although it is not apparent here. Road Movie is a shambling hour and a half padded out with highway footage photographed from the truck's cab. The woman's character is the most interesting in the film, though there...
...magazines face a damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don't choice. They cannot afford to absorb the new rates, and the entire history of subscription promotion shows that many readers will refuse to pay the freight as well...
...biggest railroad, he might be guilty of some slight bias, but his opinion is widely shared in financial circles. The oil shortage has made coal critically important as an alternative energy source, and most coal moves by rail. Shippers of other goods are beginning to realize that freight trains consume only about one-fourth as much energy per ton-mile as trucks do. And the Nixon Administration's newly proposed Transportation Improvement Act would protect railroads from discriminatory local taxation and make it easier for them to raise their rates-provisions that would dramatically improve the industry...
...costs have gone up 48%, and Burlington Northern has lacked the capital to buy enough new equipment to handle increased traffic. Last year the company's own Plum Creek Lumber Co., in Montana, had to ship some of its output by truck because there were not enough B.N. freight cars around...
...head off the strike, W.J. Usery Jr., director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, promised last week that the Interstate Commerce Commission would permit the independents to pass through to the trucking companies the cost of fuel-price increases in the form of higher freight rates. Usery also agreed to set up a special allocation plan for truck-fueling stations, ensuring that they will get 10% more than they sold in 1972. That was not good enough for leaders of such independent organizations as the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers and the Council of Independent Truckers, who thumbed down...