Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the General Strike of 1926 have so many British trade unionists been pulled off their jobs in quest of pay hikes. For the third straight week, a strike by 80,000 truck drivers slowed trade and industry to a near standstill. Locomotive drivers repeated crippling one-day work stoppages that forced hundreds of thousands of commuters into their cars and onto highways made treacherous by a blanket of snow. Still more troubles loomed as London's subway workers considered striking this week. Four public employees unions, whose 1.5 million members include nursery attendants, teachers, hospital workers and crematory...
...successful deregulation of airfares last year. Alfred Kahn, as CAB chief, had to deal with only 26 airlines, and some of the biggest backed deregulation, judging correctly that lower fares would tempt more people to fly and actually increase their profits. The ICC must contend with 16,600 regulated truck lines-at least one in every congressional district, truckers like to point out-and most are united in the belief that lowering rates and letting new firms enter the business will not generate more cargo, but only cut profits for everybody. The Teamsters Union stridently opposes deregulation...
...given jurisdiction over trucking by Congress in 1935. During the next four decades the ice proceeded to put trucking into the same straitjacket that it had fashioned for railroads. Truck routes were spelled out in minute detail New lines were permitted to enter interstate trade only if they could prove they would provide a service that existing carriers could not. Thanks to an antitrust exemption granted by Congress in 1948 truckers have been allowed to set their own rates, and they have prospered greatly. Indeed, over the past eight years the eight largest truck lines have earned an average...
...Neal has been moving to dismantle this structure. The ice has abolished a rule preventing companies that haul their own goods-Sears or Safeway, for example-from picking up cargo from other shippers. Partly because this rule forced company trucks to return empty from hauls between warehouse and factory or store, one of every ten truck-miles driven in the U.S. has been "deadheaded." O'Neal has further decreed that organizers of a new truck line need prove only that they will "serve a useful public purpose" to be allowed to operate. He has also scrapped an ancient...
...steaming-hot diesel engine. We were irrigating a cornfield and the engine had been continuously pumping for several hours. The engine was incredibly hot, so hot that I expected it to explode at any moment. Several hundred people had just recently been killed in a liquid propane truck explosion in Spain, and I vividly recalled the newspaper photos of bodies turned to charcoal. So when Gilles Vallet suggested refilling the fuel tank, I discreetly walked off to examine the corn at the other end of the field...