Word: hauls
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Overdrive never did endorse the settlement of the strike. The 63-per-cent surcharge was insufficient to cover rising costs, and applied only to ICC-regulated carriers. Most independent drivers haul commodities exempt from ICC regulation and so received no benefit from the increase...
Under the present arrangement, they cannot. Interstate trucking is regulated by the ICC, which grants "operating rights" to carriers to haul certain commodities over certain routes. Independent operators have three options: they can haul "exempt" commodities, such as produce and cattle; they can lease their trucks to and drive for licensed carriers, thus virtually eliminating their independent status; or they can apply for operating rights...
...situation is that a produce hauler, going from California to Boston with a load of lettuce, must legally return empty to pick up his next load; and there aren't many cattle or produce runs west out of New England. Thus a fourth and rather common option is to haul illegal loads and hope not to get caught. The trucker who goes, though, runs the risk of expensive fines...
Observes one longtime analyst of Vietnamese affairs: "What is remarkable about the document is its conservatism." Indeed, there are other indications that the Communists are digging in for the long haul. Apparently they have no strong hopes that they can topple the Saigon regime in the foreseeable future...
...very end, the President sought to postpone the day of reckoning. For more than a month after the committee asked for the tapes on Feb. 25, White House aides portrayed the request as unduly broad, a fishing expedition that called for enough material to fill a U-Haul trailer. Not until several days before the committee's formal subpoena of the recordings on April 11 did Nixon order aides to locate and transcribe the tapes. Last week, at Presidential Counsel James St. Clair's request, the committee extended its deadline by five days. "Having gone the last mile...