The Hierses of West Virginia and Marc Turner of Charlottesville are part of an ever-expanding group of American workers whose average one-way commute to their jobs is 90 minutes or more. The Census Bureau calls them "extreme commuters," and their ranks roughly doubled between 1990 and 2000 to more than 3 million, or a little more than 3 percent of all commuters.
(Read "Driven to Extremes")