A Trip Without a Load

Based on the story of the same name by Sergei Antonov The young journalist of the central newspaper Sirotkin came to the Siberian timber industry to write an essay about the glorious driver Khromov But soon Sirotkins inquiring mind calculated the trick of Khromov who noting one kilometer in the vouchers traveled a short route he knew only draining the remaining gasoline from the curbside Having revealed yet another fraud in which the director was also involved Sirotkin realized that he would not write an essay but that he would be lucky with materials for the trial This was announced by the authorities of the timber industry Khromov himself took the journalist on the return trip