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Because drivers spend so much time away from home, family problems become an occupational hazard. Truckers, says Hadaway, "are closer to their partners than their families, in many cases." Says Al Gregory: "You've got to have one hell of a woman at home in this business. You'll find more divorced guys driving trucks than anywhere else in the world...
...driver's lonely perch high above the highway gives him a special perspective; he can spot traffic patterns developing ahead more readily than the car-bound motorist. He scorns the tourists who dart in and out of traffic. Independent trucking operators pose another hazard, for they often overload their rigs and use pep pills to stay awake on long hauls, which can make them dangerously overtired on the road. The men driving for the big companies superstitiously shy away from rigs that they know have been rebuilt after a wreck. The road limits a man's vision...
Detroit Move. The presence of lead in gasoline poses still another hazard: the metal's residue clogs the antippllution devices that the automobile industry has developed for its next generation of cars. Hence Detroit favors lead removal as a means of meeting federal emission standards that are to take effect in the fall...
...Sept. 9, and her future is uncertain. The Port Everglades Commission, the municipality's governing body, has decreed that the ship must leave the harbor by December. The pollution-control office of Broward County, in which the liner is moored, has cited her smoky stacks as a hazard. Combining insult with injury, the county tax assessor recently ruled that the berthed vessel is legally a building, and assessed it for $5,700,000. The new classification means that the Elizabeth is one of the few buildings in the world that can hoist anchor and sail away-if only...
...worst hazard is the acronym's tendency to create doubles. As soon as an acronym becomes common, it breeds a litter of identical children. When a man says that he works for AID, is he part of the Agency for International Development or Americans of Italian Descent? Perhaps he is a doctor concerned with Artificial Insemination by Donor, or a lexicographer employed by the Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary, which now lists 18 different AIDs...