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an operator of public service transportation and a much smaller industry consolidator in the state. The company had also lost their contract in
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Norfolk area to Virginia Overland Transportation. Virginia Overland Transportation was
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other hand, always had to be dealt with. In 1978, Laidlaw entered the United States solid waste industry, Laidlaw Waste
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