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Demand for the stretched-out sleepers began to heat up after a 1982 congressional decision allowing longer cab lengths without a corresponding cut in precious cargo space. A majority of the 15,000 tractors produced by California's Peterbilt truck company now have some type of sleeper accoutrement. Double Eagle...
Sleepers have solid business advantages, starting with time saving. Says Double Eagle President Ray Miller: "If a load of West Coast produce has to be East in three days, not three weeks, a husband and wife team with a sleeper can do the job." Lone drivers must either bunk up...
Atlanta Reporter Leslie Cauley, who talked to state police officials and judges in Georgia and South Carolina, learned last December how even a minor incident could affect her. Returning to her car one night, she found the window vent broken and the glove compartment rifled. Angry, she headed home. "I...
Up in the cockpit, crew members had other things on their minds. "The five of us were trying everything to steady the plane," said Pilot Ming Yuan Ho, 55. Cruising at around 41,000 feet about 350 miles northwest of San Francisco, the Boeing 747 SP suddenly lost full power...
Even in producing its separate chambers, Bomby did nothing extraordinary. It descended from a family of ground beetles that have single internal chambers and merely added the second compartment by subdividing the first. Eisner also offers strong evidence, in the form of "living fossils," that the bombardier did indeed evolve...