State Tried to Force Truck Out of Service ; Officials Had Searched for the Vehicle After a Federal Agency Revoked the Driver's Authority to Haul Cargo.

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As Scott Hewitt was working this summer hauling cargo in his tractor-trailer, the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles was trying to seize the truck's license plates.

The veteran trucker with a lengthy record of driving convictions started his own trucking business nine months ago. But then he missed a federal safety audit and failed to obtain state permission to haul vegetables and other food in Maine, according to federal and state regulators.

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State Tried to Force Truck Out of Service ; Officials Had Searched for the Vehicle After a Federal Agency Revoked the Driver's Authority to Haul Cargo.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sent Hewitt a letter May 20 ordering him to stop driving immediately. But the Caribou man stayed on the road until last Friday, wh...

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