The dynamite blasting will stop later this summer, rendering obsolete the large dampening blanket made of threaded scraps of truck tires, which hovered ominously above the Thunderdome.
But Western officials said they, too, were left in the dark about the outcome of the inquiry into the material on the scrap-metal truck.
Or maybe I was going to get picked up by a scrap-metal truck and then get zapped at Frank's Junkyard, laid out in the back seat of a 1960 Ford Fairlane.
Hidden under scrap metal in trucks, slipped across the frozen Amur River in the winter or stuffed amid clothes in suitcases and carried by stony-faced smugglers, the bear paws find their way to China despite the best efforts of the Russian authorities.
Such jobs, like many connected to the port, are an important stepping-stone on the path to the middle class.The ports want to scrap the oldest trucks and gradually upgrade the others so that, within five years, the fleet emits four-fifths less pollution than at present.
It's about as likely as Kim Jong-un snorting two and a half kilos of pharmaceutical-grade "innovation" all by himself and slapping together the KN-08 using some Soviet-era scrap, a Chinese logging truck, and some chicken wire.
And how could any kid resist the allure of running away from home and scrapping by as a truck stop video game hustler, living on Hostess cupcakes?
With few options to escape poverty, Lao farmers are waiting for Vietnamese scrap dealers' carts and trucks to return to the trail.
Anything came in handy -- scrap metal, parts from a truck transmission.
He asked a man who was sitting in a truck for a scrap of paper and wrote something.
