rest stop


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designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily

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Maybe that explains why state education officials thought it was a good idea to bring a three-year, no-bid deal for vending machines at state rest stops to the Board of Public Works as an emergency contract.
Arvind Saharan talks about Lahore-Islamabad motorway rest stop. Image Credit: Twitter/@AsharJawad
The defendant later confessed he later went to a truckers' rest stop on the highway where he loaded a truck for another driver with it.
Hey, they don't call this 100,000 square-foot facility the biggest rest stop in the world for nothing.
The south Eugene neighborhood's acceptance is vital; the council is reluctant to force a rest stop on anyone.
The web-based survey then asks whether or not the driver plans to take rest stops. At the end of the short questionnaire, the program prints an itinerary of the route and provides recommended rest stop locations as well as timing for these breaks.
drivers' to see rest stops A spokesman said: "The driver, working for an Irish haulier, used two other digital smart cards in addition to his own to enable him to complete a non stop journey from France through Italy and return to Ireland via North Wales where he was apprehended by the Commercial Vehicle Unit." He was jailed for 40 days after failing to pay a fine imposed by Caernarfon Magistrates.
Grants also are going toward building a rest stop at the Mount Washington Scenic Overlook in Coos County, preserving the Stark Covered Bridge over the Upper Ammonoosuc River, preserving the Cresson Covered Bridge in Swanzey and Ashuelot River Covered Bridge in Winchester and helping Albany acquire more than 293 acres to protect the Mount Washington Valley and the Kancamagus Scenic Byway, among other projects.
New York, May 20 (ANI): While describing himself as great kisser, Canadian singer Justin Bieber revealed that he finds the rest stop at Wal-Mart to be the perfect place to make out.
Summary: <p>I heard the news of AaBarack Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on a day when I had the pleasure of experiencing the best and worst extremes of American culture: a highway rest stop, and the Norman Rockwell museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Compton said building a rest stop on the Highway 17 bypass with a tourism kiosk at the Redditt Road intersection would be an the ideal place.
Swedish road rest stop chain operator Rasta Group AB said on Wednesday (30 January) that it has agreed to acquire the Tonnebro Vardshus rest stop on the E4 highway between Gavle and Soderhamn in Sweden.
An italian police officer accidentally shot dead a football fan yesterday while trying to break up a clash with supporters of another club at a motorway rest stop, a police chief said.