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  2. Hours of service - Wikipedia

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    These same drivers reported they would log these times as on-duty if they were paid reasonably for such delays. Drivers can get away with this rule-breaking because of their paper-based log books. As drivers record their time spent behind the wheel, there is very little to stop them from forging their log books.

  3. Log driving - Wikipedia

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    Log drivers at Klarälven in Sweden. Log driving is a means of moving logs (sawn tree trunks) from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river. It was the main transportation method of the early logging industry in Europe and North America. [1]

  4. Logarithm - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation. That means that the logarithm of a number x to the base b is the exponent to which b must be raised to produce x. For example, since 1000 = 103, the logarithm base of 1000 is 3, or log10 (1000) = 3.

  5. Opportunities range from a Ferrari theme park in Abu Dhabi to the rental car office at your local international airport — ride a track, or take your temporary supercar out for a night on the town.

  6. Wheel tractor-scraper - Wikipedia

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    In civil engineering, a wheel tractor-scraper (also known as a land scraper, land leveler or ' tournapull') is a type of heavy equipment used for earthmoving. It has a pan/hopper for loading and carrying material. The pan has a tapered horizontal front cutting edge that cuts into the soil like a carpenter's plane or cheese slicer and fills the ...

  7. Why are we so angry behind the wheel? Drivers bring out the ...

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    Cary Campria was behind the wheel of her Mini Cooper on West Flagler Street, driving from her downtown Miami job to her home near Doral. Soon, she noticed an 18-wheeler trying to get into her lane.

  8. Glossary of cycling - Wikipedia

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    A mountain bike trail designed for a single line of riders. Sit-on and Sit-in. To ride behind another rider without taking a turn on the front (thus tiring the lead rider), often in preparation for an attack or sprint finish. "Sitting in the wheels" is to take an easy ride drafted by the peloton or gruppetto.

  9. Tora! Tora! Tora! - Wikipedia

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    Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ!) is a 1970 epic war film that dramatizes the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, from the American and Japanese positions.