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Truckers Darren Schneider and Rod Bryson couldn't have chosen a more dramatic place to stop. But having turned off the 90 Mile Straight, "Australia's Longest Straight Road," in the early hours of the morning en route from Melbourne to Perth, their three-carriage Kenworth inexplicably shuts down. A misty dawn reveals an endless vista of saltbush: They're bang in the middle of an ancient seabed stretching 700 km from South Australia's Head of the Bight west to Balladonia. Nullarbor translates as "no trees" in Latin, and for the moment the truckers are without a clue. "Usually...
...broken-down vehicles across the Nullarbor. "Trucks bowl them over all the time, and a few cars as well. And they just keep on coming and they don't thin out." But a roo isn't to blame this morning, nor is low oil or water. Written across the Kenworth's chassis is the motto without trucking australia stops, but into the last quarter of their 40-hour trip, Schneider and Bryson must simply sit on the roadside and check and recheck the truck manual...
...says. "But I thought, Oh, she's in supply, she'll be safe, she'll never be close to any actual fighting. I trusted her unit, trusted the Army that she got the proper training." Jessica even had a special advantage. She had grown up with her dad's Kenworth cabover truck in the front yard; he gets $1 a mile driving anywhere from Florida to Connecticut. Now she would be the one steering five-ton trucks full of supplies to the front. "It's always in the back of your mind that something can happen," says Greg Lynch...
...sent to Vietnam. "He spent his time on rivers in patrol boats being shot at. These were things we didn't talk about--his anger about things in Vietnam, if there was any," says his brother Greg. When Ridgway came back to the U.S., he got a job painting Kenworth trucks in a factory in Renton, Wash. He kept this job for 30 years. He married three times, and has a son from his second marriage, who is in the Marines. In the late '70s Gary became fanatical about religion, according to Marcia. He would go from door to door...
Scoring: H Goals: Primm 1, Baly 1, Christian 1, Logigian 1, Wich 1. H Assists: Wich 1, McBride 1. Y Goals: Britt 2, Capilupi 1, Kenworthy 1, Foote 1, Lujic 1. Y Assists: Scaglione 2, Kenworth 1, Floyd 1. Shots: H 50, Y 30. Saves: H McKenna 13, Y Wenzel 20. Ground Balls: H 19, Y 20. Faceoffs: H 10, Y 4. Extra...