Word: truck
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...federal legislation spelled out the first uniform, national standards for truck weights and measurements. It allows trucks up to 80,000 Ibs. in weight, 102 in. wide and 56 ft. long (plus the cab) to operate the full length of the 42,268-mile interstate system. The law also requires each state to designate other highways that could handle these loads...
Regardless of the size of the road, the rigs themselves may pose a safety hazard: critics say they are harder to control and more prone to jackknife than smaller trucks. Truck drivers assert, however, that tandem trailers, known in the industry as "double bottoms," are safer than smaller rigs because they have extra axles and better weight distribution. But there is little question that the larger rigs will batter the nation's interstate highway system, initiated in 1956 for trucks far less hefty than today...
Joey, 36, a loader at a truck terminal in Brooklyn, got his supply from a man wearing a ski mask at a bustling "drug market" five minutes from work. "I'd go during my breaks and at lunch, picking up four to eight nickel [$5] bags at a time," he says. "If it was payday, I could run through my whole check [$515]." Joey, now in a drug-abuse treatment program, says he is "trying to find a place where there is no dope...
...rightists. But Didion is no pundit. Her strength is in conveying atmosphere and her own sense of horror, although this is not always completely convincing. Seated one night on the porch of a restaurant with her writer husband, John Gregory Dunne, Didion notices a shadowy figure in a truck and a man with a rifle at a gas station. "Nothing came of this," she says anticlimactically, "but I did not forget the sensation of having been in a single instant demoralized, undone, humiliated by fear, which is what I meant when I said that I came to understand...
April 2, 7:30 a.m.--An unidentified truck with Connecticut license plates careened across the Business School parking lot and smashed through the wooden entrance arm on the Garden Rd. side of the lot. The guard allegedly witnessed this incident, but no further information was available...