Take a tour of the world's biggest truck stop

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Iowa 80

Drivers moving west across Interstate 80 into Iowa experience the first undulations in terrain felt since Pennsylvania.

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At night, numbed from hours on the road, its easy to confuse the sensation with flying.

Less than ten miles after crossing the Mississippi River - which marks the border between Illinois and Iowa - a red sign along the highway owns the dark abyss of a Midwestern horizon.

"Iowa 80" it says, and it's the world's largest truck stop.

It's also an unexpected vision into a subculture unknown to most, but familiar to the particular kind of people that for their living pull things across a very, very big country.

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