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...only the wood-chipping gear that exudes testosterone. Just visit the Waste News booth, where salesman David Martin invites attendees to maneuver a radio-controlled trash truck around a scaled-down city street. "We don't care if people want to knock the kids down," he says. "That's up to them." (He's joking, of course.) The odd part is, all this bluster shares airspace with a kind of quiet confidence--the kind that comes from an industry that's "recession resilient," says Bruce Parker, president of the Environmental Industry Associations, the industry trade group. The trash trade collected...
...Indeed, high-tech gimmickry is exceedingly thin on the ground at Waste Expo; four lonely exhibitors huddle forlornly in the "Technology Pavilion," fully half a mile from the main entrance and conveniently adjacent to the "Medical Waste Pavilion." Tracey Anderson of CFA, which markets a computer program to track truck-fleet maintenance, bravely tries to spin her booth's isolation: "It's almost a blessing in disguise, because the people coming back here are really looking...
Customs inspectors are used to seeing Arab-American and Arab-Canadian truck drivers and, Anderson says, don't single them out but rather look for anomalies in their shipping documents, route or cargo. There are unsettling signs, however, that al-Qaeda has been recruiting in the Windsor and Detroit areas. In late July, Canadian authorities handed over to the fbi a 20-year-old Canadian citizen of Kuwaiti heritage. Investigators said Mohammed Mansur (Sammy) Jabarah admitted traveling to Singapore last October to help mount an aborted plot to blow up the U.S., British, Israeli and Australian embassies there. And last...
...dueling needs of security and commerce have forced Customs and the major automakers to rush into service a paperless reporting system called the National Customs Automation Program (NCAP). General Motors, which developed the software, is sharing it with its rivals; the system transmits to customs computers advance information about trucks and drivers dispatched from Canada to the U.S. When the driver arrives at the inspection booth, he simply hands over a bar-coded document, gets scanned and, if everything matches, goes on his way. GM is experimenting with truck-mounted transponders to beam the data to the customs booth while...
About two-thirds of the trucks that approach the bridge are hauling for big companies like GM and get some kind of fast-track treatment. But that leaves 2,000 trucks a day to be scrutinized because their drivers and owners aren't known to Customs. "The better job we can do of identifying the low-risk companies and carriers," says Anderson, "the more we can concentrate on those we're not familiar with." A few of the highest-risk trucks--the ones that arrive without proper documents, say--are offloaded and searched. But that takes hours and is practical...