(Hopefully that's no omen for young Prince George's forthcoming visit: tens of thousands of expected spectators failed to turn up in the heat and dust, and the caterers had to bury truckloads of meat pies; a military flyover drowned out an unimpressed Dame Nellie Melba and one aircraft crashed before parliament, killing the pilot).
"I could sell 100 truckloads a day if I was open to it," Baxter said.
"The theft up here is unbelievable," says a private detective hired by an insurer to investigate the disappearance of 15 truckloads of oil.
Soldiers go from school to school rounding up truckloads of boys as young as 15 for military training.
Now the talk in the industry is of products being axed and of truckloads of unsold low-carb snacks and meals being donated to charities for the homeless.
The truckloads of oil that pass through northern Iraq on their way to Turkey bring a tidy income to the Kurdish warlords who tax them.
As part of an accord last November, Israel and the PA agreed to raise the export rate through Karni to 150 truckloads a day by the end of 2005 and to 400 by the end of 2006.
It predicted wrongly, as it turned out that anything short of a grateful Iraqi people enthusiastically embracing democracy while truckloads of hideous weaponry were uncovered would make Mr Blair's position untenable.
In July Mr Karzai pardoned five well-connected drug-traffickers who had been imprisoned for up to 18 years for attempting to trade heroin for two truckloads of sub-machineguns.
Given the Islamic Republic's history of nuclear cheating, its truckloads of petrodollars and the possibility of buying nuclear technology on the black market, how can the spooks possibly know that it has stopped trying to make a bomb?
Dabur, the biggest Indian consumer-goods maker, a family-owned firm based in Uttar Pradesh, has 55% of the market for fruit juice and cranks out truckloads of shampoo, skin cream and other health and personal-care products.
