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...price of a postage stamp, a trucker can write to Douglas and get a special code number given only to the driver and the driver's wife and/or dispatcher. When there is a change in shipping plans or an emergency, the wife or dispatcher can call and have Douglas broadcast a message such as "Driver 508, please call in. You have the wrong load." Recently, for example, one driver who had been misdirected from Jacksonville to Houston was told to turn around and go to Baltimore instead. Douglas also broadcasts warnings, mostly phoned in by truckers, about collisions, closed...
...Popkin were an Italian-American trucker whom the authorities believed to have useful information about the operation of the Mafia, he might very well be summoned before a grand jury. He might also refuse to answer, might be sentenced to jail for contempt, and the public might be generally delighted at the spectacle of a criminal brought to justice. But Sam Popkin, 30, is not a Mafioso. He is a lecturer on government at Harvard, a recognized expert on Vietnamese village life, and the Government seems to believe he knows something useful to the prosecution of the Pentagon papers case...
...back to Dacca next day, I came upon a convoy trucker who had been waiting for five days for his turn to board a ferry and cross the miles-wide junction of the great Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. As we huddled under the tailgate to keep dry, a shopkeeper joined us. Gazing at the puddle forming beneath us, he said: 'Even the skies are weeping for this land...
...motorcycle and 90 for a truck. The drivers can scarcely believe their ears when they are haled to the curb for a summons. "But officer, I wasn't going too fast," pleaded one truck driver. "No, but you were going too loud," said the cop. Another trucker argued: "Our firm has 45 trucks. Do you mean that we've got to put new mufflers on all of them?" Replied the officer with quiet dedication: "Now you're getting the idea...
...mostly warehouses and warehouses as the train rambled alongside Milwaukee Avenue toward the heart of the city. "Get your ticket ready. We're almost there." The faces on the people have turned from white to black and the vaporous mist of the city darkens. Alongside small factories, truckers back their vans up to the landing docks and the license plates on the front grilles form a road map of the route through Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and into the Northwest where the trucker will eventually deliver his widgets in Portland. "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns," reads...