Word: truck
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...truck drivers have never been in greater demand. There are 40,000 positions available today, by some estimates--a sign, perhaps, of a coming surge in the economy. Often the transportation industry is a leading indicator for other businesses, from manufacturing to retail. So TIME senior writer DANIEL KADLEC sat down with Bill Zollars, chairman and CEO of Yellow Roadway, the nation's biggest trucking firm, to discuss driver shortages--and what kind of demand he is seeing across the country...
...classic story of Romeo and Juliet takes on a new twist as the Montagues and Capulets are turned into feuding families of sandwich-selling truck stops, in the world premiere of the musical comedy, Peanut Butter & Juliet. Pappy Montague’s Peanut Butter Sammich Store and Clem Capulet’s Jelly Sammich Emporium are happily at odds until Juliet Capulet and Bubba Monague fall in love. Currier House Drama Society. Tickets $8 general; $5 student/senior; free if under age 8. 8 p.m., Sat. at 8 p.m., Sun. at 4 p.m. Currier House Fishbowl. 64 Linnaean Street, Cambridge...
...Besides, there are so many spare dimes trickling down from W’s tax cuts, right? No? As more normatively Cantabrigian patrons began to realize who these ladies were, grumbles and mutters reached their virgin ears, and the belles for Bush decided to get back on the Fuck Truck, fast...
...four months he spent in solitary confinement--spousal abuse was the charge--conveys genuine suffering. He drums on the bars and talks to the cockroaches and drinks gross prison moonshine. You also have to appreciate the ingenuity of a guy who replaces the windshield detergent in his truck with Jack Daniels and sprays it at passersby and whose life mission is building "retardedly large drum sets...
...truck driving, federal laws limit consecutive driving time to 10 hours,” he said. “Risks fatal to drivers increase exponentially until at the 24th hour the risk for a crash is 56-fold the baseline...