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May 9, 2007

* USA - Rumblings about noise from trucks

Sylvan Lake,Mich,USA -The Detroit News, by Catherine Jun -9 May 2007: -- The revving of truck engines at the DTE Energy facility outside his patio door has in recent months sends vibrations through his rooms and has awakened the couple and their 4-year-old daughter on too many nights... He and several residents living near the Pontiac Service Center on Orchard Lake have complained in recent months of nighttime and weekend noise from diesel trucks and a generator at the once-quiet facility... The Bloomfield Township Zoning Board of Appeals asked that the company submit a noise abatement study before the board signs off on the company's request to build additional truck shelters at the site... (Photo by Charles V. Tines / The Detroit News - Mike Barron, left, and Mike Zubrzycki look over at the DTE yard, which is close to their Sylvan Lake neighborhood, as trucks roar past. Company representatives will review a noise abatement study with community officials this month)

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Feb 23, 2007

Faulty Trucks* USA - UPS under Attorney General investigation after lawsuit claims

Syracuse,NY,USA -News 10 Now, by Brian Dwyer -22 Feb 2007: -- UPS mechanic Dan Peterson was not only fired once from his job, but twice. He's currently on this third stint with the company... Peterson is now suing UPS because he said he was fired for being a whistleblower... In his lawsuit, Peterson claims he began finding UPS trucks with "severely rusted, cracked and sometimes broken chassis frames"... When the trucks were taken to repair shops, the work was "performed in a careless, shoddy, substandard and unworkmanlike manner"... In March of 2006, Peterson "red tagged" four trucks, saying they were unfit for the road. He claims the next day, UPS had them back on the streets with no repairs... That same day, he removed the vehicles' inspection stickers so they couldn't be driven... He was suspended and then fired for what UPS says was, "falsification of company and legal documents, poor workmanship in the repairs you made to the vehicles and failure to follow methods and procedures"...

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