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Modern Marvels: Truck Stops |  | Artist: Artist Not Provided
Studio: A & E Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.95
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Seller: forgetthegouge
Sales Rank: 232454
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 733961775600
EAN: 0733961775600
ASIN: B001STPPE8
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Runtime: 50 Minutes | | • | Number of Discs: 1 | | • | Region: 1 |
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Product Description
Breaker, breaker, we've got a full load of eye-opening info on the multi-billion dollar trucker hospitality industry. Are you reading me?
* For over a decade, MODERN MARVELS has brought grand stories to life.
* The ultimate celebration and investigation of engineering excellence.
* The knights of the road get everything they could possibly need without ever leaving their cabs.
Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS® tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders.
To keep our nation's eight billion tons of highway-bound freight constantly moving, we've got to keep our truckers comfortable, rested and ready. And we've got to keep the rolling.
Join MODERN MARVELS® as we discover how truck stops, serving more than twenty million truckers nationwide, are bigger and better than ever. These mammoth pit-stops are essential cogs in the machinery that keeps goods flowing seamlessly around the country.
In this episode we'll tour the world's largest truck stop, a grand service area complete with fuel, food, parking, private showers, a movie theater, a dentist office, and a barbershop. We'll see how 18-wheelers power elaborate living quarters without idling their engines by plugging into truck stop utilities.
All those trucks don't run on air! Check out how 20,000-gallon underground diesel storage tanks are installed. And also learn about the future of truck stops and see how the industry is preparing for the imminent use of biodiesel.
Big rigs need big services and MODERN MARVELS® goes roadside to reveal the secrets of TRUCK STOPS.
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