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...Haul customers in the oil-producing regions of Texas and Louisiana are understandably upset. In those areas, the price of renting a truck or trailer from the do-it-yourself moving company seems to have shot out of reason. It costs $2,009, for example, to hire a 24-ft. U-Haul truck for a move from Midland, Texas, to Jacksonville. A Florida resident can rent the same truck in the opposite direction for only...
...fallen price of petroleum, says an executive for Arizona-based U-Haul, has spawned an exodus from the oil towns and caused shortages of U-Haul equipment. In May and June, the company spent $114,000 to pay people to fly to Florida and drive back 450 trucks and 1,100 trailers to Houston and New Orleans. But many Texans still wait three weeks to get one of the costly U- Haul trucks...
...preciate the lonesomeness of others too, when they need you. Maybe Americans tend to be generous because they recognize lonesomeness in everybody, and through that lonesomeness they've learned that folks are pretty much worth the same, that we're all in the same boat. At sundown I'll haul the raft to a lake in the middle of some town, and watch the lights pop on one by one like signal fires, like the town was findin' its mind in the dark...
Once an obscure gadget found mostly on the dashboards of high-performance cars or in the cabs of long-haul trucks, the portable radar detector is fast becoming standard operating equipment in workaday Chevys, Fords and Toyotas. By beeping a warning whenever a police radar transmitter is operating nearby, the small (as light as 6 oz.) electronic gizmos give lead-footed drivers a chance to slow down before a police officer can spot a speeding violation. About 1.5 million citizens bought so-called Smokey detectors last year, a 25% increase over 1984. This year industry sales are expected to keep...
...Puerto Rican Godfather, someone named Julio, doesn't look as if he would be capable of throwing over a candy store let alone masterminding a huge cocaine-importing business. But this typecasting aside, he somehow manages to corner the detectives into turning over a haul of cocaine. Julio does that by kidnapping Costanzo's about-to-be-remarried ex-wife and holding her hostage in a glass elevator at the top of the State Building in downtown Chicago...