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Author: Andy Turnbull Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780613235860 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages :
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The author describes his experiences riding with a truck driver from Vancouver north through the Yukon to Tuktoyaktuk, a small town north of the Arctic circle.
Author: Andy Turnbull Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780613235860 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages :
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The author describes his experiences riding with a truck driver from Vancouver north through the Yukon to Tuktoyaktuk, a small town north of the Arctic circle.
Author: Anne Balay Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469647109 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 229
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Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh realities of truckers' lives behind the wheel. A licensed commercial truck driver herself, Balay discovers that, for people routinely subjected to prejudice, hatred, and violence in their hometowns and in the job market, trucking can provide an opportunity for safety, welcome isolation, and a chance to be themselves--even as the low-wage work is fraught with tightening regulations, constant surveillance, danger, and exploitation. The narratives of minority and queer truckers underscore the working-class struggle to earn a living while preserving one's safety, dignity, and selfhood. Through the voices of drivers from marginalized communities who spend eleven- to fourteen-hour days hauling America's commodities in treacherous weather and across mountain passes, Semi Queer reveals the stark differences between the trucking industry's crushing labor practices and the perseverance of its most at-risk workers.
Author: Robert Lemon Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252051297 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence--sometimes desired, sometimes resented--that turns a public street corner into a bustling business. Drawing on interviews with taco truck workers and his own skills as a geographer, Robert Lemon illuminates new truths about foodways, community, and the unexpected places where ethnicity, class, and culture meet. Lemon focuses on the Bay Area, Sacramento, and Columbus, Ohio, to show how the arrival of taco trucks challenge preconceived ideas of urban planning even as cities use them to reinvent whole neighborhoods. As Lemon charts the relationships between food practices and city spaces, he uncovers the many ways residents and politicians alike contest, celebrate, and influence not only where your favorite truck parks, but what's on the menu.
Author: Andy Turnbull Publisher: ISBN: 9781550375510 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 92
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The author describes his experiences riding with a truck driver from Vancouver north through the Yukon to Tuktoyaktuk, a small town north of the Arctic circle.
Author: Cliff Bishop Publisher: Publication Consultants ISBN: 1594331812 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 176
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In spite of the obstacles the Alaska truckers were presented with they never weakened in their determination to get the job done. These pioneer drivers never conquered or tamed Alaska's roads and weather, but they learned to operate on the back trails and paths--always making their way to the trip's end. In spite of all the challenges, they never quit. The following from Teddy Roosevelt is an appropriate salute to Alaskan truckers: "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that high place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Eighteen Wheels North to Alaska: A History of Trucking in Alaska is the story of Alaskan drivers who guided, coaxed, pushed, pulled, plowed, and somehow made it to the end of the road--and beyond--over high mountain passes, whiteout conditions, seventy below zero temperature, through mud, muck, and tundra terrain--even onto the Arctic Ocean ice beyond the shore.
Author: Roberta Hursey Publisher: Calgary : Detselig ISBN: 9781550592047 Category : Mackenzie Highway (Alta. and N.W.T.) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Every highway has a history. Built as a post-war project by the Dominion and Alberta governments, the Mackenzie highway is still the most important overland link between the Northwest Territories and the rest of Canada. Completed in 1948, the Mackenzie was built by trucks, for trucks. Trucking North is a popular social history about truck transportation and its impact on the communities of Northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Richly illustrated with maps and 77 photographs. This book is primarily about truckers and truck transportation on the Mackenzie Highway and its tributaries. It is also about other forms of northern transportation that are linked to trucking, and about northern peoples, communities, and industries that depend upon truck transportation for survival.
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