1.   Both New York City and Connecticut garbage haulers say they are being harassed by the Connecticut state police.

2.   But about the same time, the garbage haulers were in court trying to scuttle the legislation.

3.   Executives at Waste Management, the long-troubled garbage hauler, focused on new systems to help revive its fortunes.

4.   Garbage haulers, who wanted the right to seek lower rates elsewhere, had argued that the system violated interstate commerce laws.

5.   If the regulations are enacted, the city will have the toughest regulations for garbage haulers in the country, sanitation-industry executives said.

6.   Now, city officials want to extend those sharp savings to smaller businesses like restaurants and bodegas by lowering the maximum prices that private garbage haulers can charge.

7.   Second, a federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order sought by commercial garbage haulers against similar background checks and regulation in their industry.

8.   So the two tracked down the garbage hauler and learned the truck was on its way to the landfill.

9.   This is a noble objective, but his task may be much more difficult than his earlier challenges to the Fulton Fish Market and the commercial garbage haulers.

10.   The company will also manufacture garbage haulers, a refrigerated van and others to carry cargo.