If you follow professional football at all, the name John Madden may be familiar. He was the long time commentator on Monday Night Football (now Sunday nights) who traveled everywhere by bus. The rumor was he was afraid of ying. No, this is not an article about John Madden. But it is an article about a bus. Mr. Madden is not the only one that rides in modied tour buses. Band crews, racing crews, and a variety of other groups that travel a circuit use modied buses to provide comfort and cost eective movement from city to city. These buses have all the features of a mini apartment with sofas and kitchen and beds. But space is always at a premium. One bus customizer came to us recently with a lifting system challenge. He wanted to maximize the number of sleeping quarters he could include

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