Call it Megan's Law. After Missouri officials declined to bring charges against Lori Drew for her role in the suicide of Megan Meier, legislators passed a cyber-bullying law. Now that law is being used to go after at least seven cases of obnoxious online behavior, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Leland James, headed Freightliner and built one of the first Freightlinersâ¦. none of the trucks at the time suited him, so he made his own! 1941: the shovel nose cabover appeared. 1942: The company, Freightliner Inc. was now official. 1948: 40 of these trucks were manufactured in Oregon and this was the same year that Freightliner produced the cab of these trucks, in aluminum.
The Ford Motor Company built its first factory assembled pickup truck in 1925. But an impatient public was way ahead of Henry Ford by cutting up the rear of Model Ts and making their own pickups. Since the first Model T rolled off the assembly line in 1908, buyers often installed their own wooden beds. By 1925, thousands of these modified trucks dotted urban and rural highways.