This paper reports the results of focus group interviews conducted with subject matter experts from the trucking industry (truck drivers, supervisors, managers, and other involved persons, such as insurance industry safety professionals).
Chicago was always known for advocating deregulation of various industries — trucks, airlines, and so on.
In Kentucky, a few years ago, Griffin Industries trucks, known as "dead wagons," roamed the countryside in search of carcasses of livestock, horses, and mules.
Certain industries — trucking, construction, housekeeping — are notorious for doing this, but it happens everywhere.
Heavy industry has dominated the economy since the 19th century and includes chemicals, engineering, electrical and aluminum industries, truck and bus manufacture, railway equipment, food processing, and textiles.
Mr. La Barbera is president of Local 282 of the Teamsters, which represents most construction-industry truck drivers in greater New York.
"It's going to be a huge problem," says Stern, pointing out that unlike the steel and automotive industries, trucking is not concentrated to a few regions.
He was a clerk to a federal district-court judge, Robert Sweet, and an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, where he helped bust up Gambino control of garment-industry trucking (Spitzer established a fake sewing shop in Chinatown, as a front).
President Ford's initial targets were the transportation industries: trucking, railroads and aviation.
And this could affect many areas of the transportation industries — truck drivers, construction vehicles, etc.
