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TRUCKERS' HOME in SHOTS * USA - An 18-Wheeler That Feels Like
USA -Wired Blogs/Autopia, by Keith Barry -January 26, 2009: -- Long-haul truckers make their money traveling far from home, so they want rigs that feel like home... Too often they're more like cheap motels, something Peter Boatwright and John Cagan changed when they helped big-rig maker Navistar design the interior of its flagship rig... The two Carnegie Mellon University professors didn't know the first thing about life on the road when they started work on the International LoneStar, but they knew plenty about design, having written the book, "The Design of Things to Come." That and hours spent chatting up drivers at truck stops helped them create a "lifestyle savvy" interior that packs the comforts of home into a rig as popular among truckers as hot coffee and cheap fuel...
Cagan says working on the project led him and Boatright to develop "compassion and understanding" for the lives of truckers. But they haven't gotten the tattoos... (Images: Navistar)
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