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...fares, just the end of $99 transcontinental fares." The Department of Transportation's Scocozza argues that "as long as there is head-to-head competition in the marketplace, we should not be concerned." For every airline merger, Scocozza adds, "I see a smaller carrier taking its place." Houston-based TranStar, for example, is now offering a $79 fare between Miami and Los Angeles. As far as overall customer choices are concerned, Al Becker, a spokesman for American Airlines, argues that today "most people can get to more places more frequently than at any time in the past...
Allen Carter, 29, who works for International Transtar, explains that for professional drivers, two chief problems are fatigue and boredom. Truckers fight off sleep with speed and pep pills (known as "pocket rockets"), but stories of dozing at the wheel are not uncommon. The only way to make money on the 2½-day trip from Florida to New York is by driving the 23 hrs. straight through. Carter thinks nothing of leaving Chicago and deadheading home to St. Cloud, Fla., without a break...
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