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Show SLEEP DANGER ON AUTO ROADS Life Endangered By Truck Drivers on California Highways Danger threatens motorists on the highways from the drivers of trucks and auto busses who are practical! asleep at the wheel, according to word received from the Automobile club of southern California. It Is reported by investigators of tho safety situation that lives are endangered en-dangered on the roads by truck drivers driv-ers who are forced to drive for so many hours at a stretch. In order to hold their Jobs, that they fall asleep at the wheel. "Sleepy drivers have no business at a steering wheel," declares the club, "and the sooner they are ruled off the highways the better. If necessary, and it is found that truck drivers are compelled com-pelled by their employers to choose to drive for so many hours without rest that they fall asleep, legislative action should bo taken. "An automobile of any kind In the hands of a sleepy driver Is a monac to the public, and a huge truck handled by a sleeper is much worse," It Is pointed out. An effort will be made throughout the southern California counties to have nil employers adjust the hours of their drivers so that no lndllvdual will find It necessary to drive for a period longer than physical endurance in stand, it Is declared |