Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cool, grey morning last week, a drab Molotov truck pulled up with a growl in front of the triple-arched "Freedom Gate" at Panmunjom. Pale hands and paler faces appeared from behind the grey canvas that covered...
...York tax organization estimates that on an average, the man who drives a four-door Plymouth with a gross weight of 3,450 Ibs. pays 34.64? worth of gas taxes and fees to move his car over 100 miles of open road. Yet the owner of a truck with a gross weight of 60,000 Ibs. pays only 12.49? to move his truck the same distance, while doing far more damage to the road...
Over the years, 14 states have passed laws of one kind or another to tax trucks on their weight and distance traveled, and thus made the highway tax load more equitable. The result is a hodgepodge of conflicting state legislation, which causes truckers to complain-legitimately-that the burden does not fall equally on local and transcontinental lines, and that long haul trucks are often unfairly penalized. But the trucking industry, a burly, brawling youngster which owes much of its growth to World War II, has not helped its case by its frequent contempt for present laws, fair...
...Truck schedules are often set with little regard for the speed laws. In California, a truck obeying all speed and traffic regulations would need 15 hours to drive the 400 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles, yet the normal schedule of most trucking lines is ten or twelve hours. Last month California's logging truckers, who have been overloading by as much as 4,000 Ibs., showed their contempt for a new program to enforce legal weight limitations by "picketing" state weighing stations with their trucks and blocking the roads...
...cities and along the open roads of the U.S., trucks have long been such an extra traffic hazard that it has even been suggested that the trucking industry raise funds for an entire new system of roads for itself. In Boston, for example, the truck-snarled traffic is so bad that a new express road is referred to laughingly as "a new, fast link between two bottlenecks...