Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...border post of Kalotina to cross into -- and allegedly through -- Serbia. Pero, the burly driver of one of the rigs, had the papers to prove that he was hauling his 32 tons of gasoline to Bijeljina, one of the first ! Bosnian towns overrun by Serbs last spring. But his truck was emblazoned with the name and address of a firm in Sid, 25 miles north of Bijeljina and inside the sanction-bound state of Serbia. Despite their suspicions that Pero and his colleague were bootlegging, the Bulgarian customs officials could legally do nothing but wave them through to Serbia...
...imposed economic sanctions that were intended to force the Serbs to end their belligerent ways. Bulgarian officials estimate that 100,000 tons of crude oil and gasoline have passed into Serbia by rail alone since the embargo was imposed on May 31. Add to that heavy truck traffic and considerable small-time smuggling, and it becomes clear that the ban is not working very well. "We are following the sanctions to the letter," says customs official Christo Christov at Kalotina, "but considering the amount of traffic through here, the Serbs are going to get through the winter just fine...
BUSINESS: GM's Truck Trouble...
...sunny afternoon last November, Walter Krug was cruising along in his 1988 four-door Chevy pickup truck on I-20 near Stanton, Texas, when suddenly another pickup blew a tire, veered into Krug's lane and broadsided him. The violent impact ruptured the gas tank of Krug's truck, spewing fuel that exploded into a fireball. Unable to free himself, Krug, 37, was burned to death. His family puts the blame on the truck's design. "Krug would have survived the crash if not for the fire. But there shouldn't have been a fire," says Mick McBee, the attorney...
...maintains that the older design is safe, but its own engineers seem to have raised questions about the outboard location as far back as 1970. GM submitted 70,000 pages of internal documents to the NHTSA last week as part of the agency's review of pickup-truck safety. In a memo dated Sept. 7, 1970, safety engineer George Carvil warned of possible fuel leaks in side collisions. "Moving these side tanks inboard," he wrote, "might eliminate most of these potential leakers." An internal memo dated Dec. 15, 1983, by product analyst Richard Monkaba, discussed the company's plan...