They Travel To Keep Motorists Posted (Apr, 1940)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1940
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1940
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They Travel To Keep Motorists Posted
LIVING like gypsies in their own trucks, signpost crews of the Automobile Club of Southern California have erected 500,000 signs of 125 types in their area. They cover 200,000 miles a year, posting 50,000 signs annually to keep abreast of changing road conditions. Often the crews are gone from headquarters ten days at a time, sleeping in beds which swing down from the roofs of their trucks and cooking on gas stoves which slide out onto the back platform.
[...] And look, it even touches upon SoCal AutoClub road signs! [...]
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