Sentences with phrase «stop than a passenger»

If the truck has a loaded trailer, it can take 20 to 40 percent longer to stop than a passenger vehicle.

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Amtrak said the Rochester station is one of the busiest stops in the state, serving more than 127,000 passengers annually.

But some people have argued that it is a waste of time and resources to search everybody - passenger profiling would allow security staff to stop people behaving suspiciously or these from specific ethnic or religious backgrounds more often than others.

«If you are in a car and want to stop within a certain fixed, short distance — without too much jerk — it's best to apply the brakes evenly rather than all at the end so passengers feel a constant deceleration force,» he says.

When another man missed his stop in Providence — the train could not have stopped for more than 30 seconds — I realized that all but the most agile passengers must be out of their seats as a train is coming to a stop, if they are not to run the risk of being similarly inconvenienced.

This made it difficult to judge stopping distances, which led to more than a few «Holy crap» emergency stops, jostling the vehicle and its passengers.

The two passenger doors also have three open - stopping positions (rather than the normal two) to add convenience in various parking situations.

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Fully refurbished for passenger comfort and making fewer intermediate stops than its predecessor, the Northern Explorer completes its inter-city journey from north to south in a time of between eleven and twelve hours.

Typically carrying no more than 35 passengers, a rafting trip almost always includes SNORKEL STOPS in Kealakekua and Honaunau bays.

«We are pleased to be able to offer the Emirates product on a daily basis, connecting passengers in Bali to Dubai and to more than 80 destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, via one convenient stop in Dubai,» said Thierry Antinori, executive vice president, Emirates.

Additionally, because of the weight of the vehicle, a large truck requires a much greater stopping distance than a passenger vehicle — up to 430 feet when traveling at 55 miles per hour.

These trucks take far longer than passenger vehicles to come to a complete stop, have larger blind spots on both sides, and carry larger and heavier cargo that affects their ability to change direction and stop.

Non-stop flights are sometimes more expensive than those that take a stop or two to pick up more passengers and cancelling means losing that money as well.