I knew a guy that drove a for a fruit delivery company. He had to pay a mobster a hundred bucks to drive the truck across the bridge to NYC. If he didn't pay up, He would get his tires slashed, windshield busted or leg broke.
He never missed a payment.
But the payoff was factored into the cost of the load and passed off to the consumer.
That was the cost of doing business up north 20 years ago.
Now the mobsters run the tollbooth.
Go figure.
39 posted on 10/22/2011 9:09:33 AM PDT by jaz.357
(The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,)