The ITRU station was a GM-Nissan Metrohauler extended panel van. It wasn’t a new one. Small patches of different colors were so overwhelmed by large swaths of rust red anticorrosion paint that it was impossible to tell what the original color scheme might have been. Twin parabolic antennae on the roof and the crude, hand-painted ITRU logo on the sides were all that showed the truck to be more than a derelict waiting to be scrapped. The blood-shot-eyed youth who answered Markowitz’s pounding on the rear door was dressed as if whoever had painted the van was his fashion coordinator. The kid—he didn’t look like he could be older than thirteen—had an ITRU logo on his ball cap above the legend "tech eng."