The first is the shop's own per-hour labor rate. The second is book time.. A shop's labor rate is the hourly rate it charges for work. The term book time refers to the average amount of time it takes to perform a particular automotive repair or maintenance job.
Record-Setting Weather in Europe. Hottest. The temperature reached 48 C (118.4 F) in both Athens and Elefsina, Greece on July 10, 1977, setting the official European record high. There's also an unofficial record of the temperature climbing to 50 C (122 F) in Seville, Spain on August 4, 1881.
A giant atom-smashing racetrack of sorts has just broken a Guinness World Record by reaching the highest man-made temperature ever recorded, scientists announced Monday (June 25).