Word: truck
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Banks' release ended an ordeal that began on a pleasant fall day when the unemployed truck driver took out his aging single-shot shotgun and went hunting. His dog came across the bodies of a 38-year-old high school band leader and a 19-year-old woman who once had been one of his students. Banks went to the road and stopped a motorist, who in turn summoned police. Five weeks later, Banks was locked up. For the trial, Banks' original lawyer, who later was disbarred for shoddy work in other cases, failed to turn up several...
...rumble in rent-a-truck...
...founder and chairman of Jartran Inc., the U.S.'s newest truck rental company, constantly complains about "those damn Ryder people." That is hardly surprising because Ryder System Inc. is the nation's largest truck-leasing firm. But the grumbling executive is none other than James A. Ryder, 67, who founded Ryder in 1934 with a $35 down payment on a $200 secondhand Model A Ford truck...
Jartran is now the fastest-growing rent-a-truck outfit in the history of the business. It has aggressively bought full-page ads in scores of newspapers and magazines, posted Jartran flyers in thousands of apartment buildings and mailed discount cards to graduating college seniors who would soon be moving their books, hi-fi sets and clothes. After some 17 months of operation, Jartran has more than 30,000 trucks and trailers and 2,200 independent dealers in the 48 mainland states. The waiting list for dealerships numbers 1,800. Though start-up costs have precluded any profits...
...saga of Ryder vs. Ryder is heading into the courtroom. Ryder System last spring sued Jartran for stealing its trademark, logo and business methods. Both Ryder and Jartran trucks have two parallel, horizontal stripes across their sides and display the slogan RENT ONE WAY & LOCAL in similar designs. Jartran ads feature large pictures of James Ryder and tout him as "the man who invented truck rental." Moreover, Ryder contends that Jartran is raiding its personnel and that some 150 former Ryder employees work for the new company. Admits James Ryder: "Most of them have come on their...