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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 3 2o17 Agata Stanisz | Tractor unit acoustemology 63 ers: their daily professional life taking place, as most people think, solely in the conditions of mobility and multisitedness. These experiences were perceptively intense because of the acute- ness of multisensory stimuli, which were impossible to avoid. This unavoidable existence in the center of reality which I wanted to become my new research field made it possible for me to observe, or rather feel, and hear, everything very closely, in a most awkward and embarrassing, sometimes even unbearable, way. Drivers never cease to be on the road, even if they are on their one- or two-week breaks at home. They constantly talk about what happened to them, where they were, what they saw and who they met. The dividing line between the place where they have their roots and their mobile homes is blurred. One or two weeks of a break is a time for preparing to the next cycle connected with recreating and preserving their mobile dwelling so that the driver could feel there at home. Hence, it must look, smell, sound properly and enable the driver to undertake daily, ideo - logically localized activities, such as watching favorite TV shows, listening to Polish music, the radio or even watching Polish TV. Audio file 7: Trucker tales or pause and boredom. Oure, Denmark, 2011-08-05. https://app.box.com/embed/preview/mezv0p5yd3hm6ei1ixmi?theme=dark Audio file 8: Watching movie. Oure, Denmark, 2011-08-11. https://app.box.com/embed/preview/rjjc002uol1vkv4r9t7o?theme=dark Audio file 9: Ambiance with Polish music. Oure, Denmark, 2011-08-06. https://app.box.com/embed/preview/8f9u7fpl44cochn0od8q?theme=dark