Beijing's ten day traffic jam drags on

Over three days and two nights, wang , a truck- driver , managed to haul his coal-carrying truck over a grand distance of tem km.
Mr. Wang's truck, and several hundred others, have over the past ten days been inching their way along the 110 Expressway, part of a 100-km-long convoy that, according to some reports, may perhaps be the world's longest -ever traffic jam.
Since August 14, the 110 has become one, big parking lot. The extreme congestion on the highways, which runs between Huaian  in Hebei province, northwest of Beijing , and Jining in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a coal mining centre , is a result of maintenance  work, necessitated by the damage caused by overloaded coal trucks trying to meet the rising demand for coal trucks trying to meet the rising demand for coal in China's capital, official said.