1.   Earnhardt was set to enjoy the duel between his hired driver, Michael Waltrip, and his rising son, Dale Jr.

2.   Searching the choking traffic for his hired driver, Reil suddenly felt like the harried three-time-a-week business traveler he is in real life.

3.   Simoes picked him up at the airport, and because he was so quiet, Burrell thought he was just a hired driver.

4.   And he did the same when asked about the charge that he offered his hired driver Wardell Fenderson a bribe to claim ownership of the gun.

5.   Excluded from the wage increase are house helpers, hired drivers and others rendering various personal services.

6.   Fong also questioned the use of hired drivers to take Alvarez and Hochberg from home to work or work to home on a dozen occasions.

7.   He did the same when asked about the charge that he had offered hired driver Wardell Fenderson a bribe to spare him prosecution on a gun charge.

8.   Most of the time the hired drivers used one of three cars leased by the SBA, Fong said.