Most of the time you would just leave the bed cover on and the five-seat cab closed and use the truck bed as a mammoth lockable trunk that's accessible from either end.

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An unidentified passenger in the back seat caught a cab, it said.

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But think about how much time you spent immobile: in a car or cab, in an airplane seat, on a bus or shuttle, in a meeting room or at a restaurant, watching TV in your hotel room.

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In the old days you had to argue with French cab drivers about accommodating a fourth in the death seat.

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The cab's engine ended up in the back seat.

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As the cab sped off, he placed the suitcase in the back seat of the mini-van.

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