I glanced out the back of our uncovered truck.

He was in Sadr City, in an uncovered truck, when a bullet entered his shoulder from above.

A Loy Yang Power employee reported an uncovered truck spilling briquettes onto the road.

News of his arrival preceded him into the city, and the outskirts were already crowded with cheering citizens as they sped by in their small uncovered truck.

Another 20 eagles died after the birds mobbed the uncovered truck at Ocean Beauty Seafoods on Friday.

The other half of litter is of accidental origin, resulting from uncovered trucks, unsecured loads, loss of vehicle parts, trash can spills, and simple human carelessness.

NPWS wildlife officials speculated that the parrots had gorged on grain spilled from an uncovered truck and became unable to move, eventually being hit by automobiles.

The state showed several slides of uncovered mounds of litter sitting in the middle of farm fields, in front of barns and in uncovered trucks.

"They used the uncovered trucks as an excuse," John McMillan, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said in Sarajevo.

Ash is often transported in uncovered trucks, and in at least two cases the toxic ash is dumped in landfills that do not have Environmental Conservation permits to operate.

About 50 eagles descended on the uncovered truck Friday when it left a garage at the Ocean Beauty Seafoods plant, the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News reported Saturday.

Yesterday, riding in the uncovered truck, and this morning, un-used to the fierce sun of these latitudes, I had neglected to take the proper precautions against exposure and my face was reddening with sunburn.

You think of litter as motorists and pedestrians carelessly throwing things on the highway, but, in fact, 50 percent of the litter comes from sources such as uncovered trucks, trash from construction sites, mishandled household and commercial waste.