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Author: Ed Miller Publisher: Apollo Publishers ISBN: 1948062399 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
Wit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road. They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America: the winding mountainsides at sunrise, the first frosts of winter descending on apple orchards, the call of the rising roosters. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road. He shares what it was like to grow up in a boisterous trucking family, his experience as an equipment officer in Vietnam, the wide range of vehicles he's mounted, and the daily trials, tribulations, risks, and exploits that define life as a trucker. Ed's vibrant, no-holds-barred tales are hilarious and heartwarming, sometimes cringeworthy or unbelievable—recollections of heroic feels as well as the “fishing stories” that have stretched and shifted from CB radio to CB radio. Many are the results of what he calls, “just plain stupidity.” Others bring to light the small acts of kindness and grand gestures that these Knights of the Highway perform each day, as well as the safety risks and continual danger that these essential workers endure. Together they paint a compelling portrait of one of the most important, but least-known industries, and reveal why Ed, and so many like him, just kept on truckin’.
Author: Ed Miller Publisher: Apollo Publishers ISBN: 1948062399 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
Wit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road. They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America: the winding mountainsides at sunrise, the first frosts of winter descending on apple orchards, the call of the rising roosters. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road. He shares what it was like to grow up in a boisterous trucking family, his experience as an equipment officer in Vietnam, the wide range of vehicles he's mounted, and the daily trials, tribulations, risks, and exploits that define life as a trucker. Ed's vibrant, no-holds-barred tales are hilarious and heartwarming, sometimes cringeworthy or unbelievable—recollections of heroic feels as well as the “fishing stories” that have stretched and shifted from CB radio to CB radio. Many are the results of what he calls, “just plain stupidity.” Others bring to light the small acts of kindness and grand gestures that these Knights of the Highway perform each day, as well as the safety risks and continual danger that these essential workers endure. Together they paint a compelling portrait of one of the most important, but least-known industries, and reveal why Ed, and so many like him, just kept on truckin’.
Author: Ted Campbell Publisher: ISBN: 9781549659744 Category : Languages : en Pages : 138
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When it comes to trucking Ted Campbell has "been there - done that" He's driven almost every truck, engine and transmission combination and carried every load imaginable. At age eighteen when no one would hire him as a driver because he had no experience he talked his Mother into co-signing a loan, traded his almost new Chevy Bel Air for a "Big Job" Ford and went trucking. Since then he's hauled lumber, gravel, logs, delivered new trucks from the factory even had two rigs on the Rogers Pass on opening day. In 1963 he was driving molten metal truck for Alcan at Kitimat when they asked him to go to UBC to attend a "teach the teachers" course. When he returned he taught an equipment operators course for five years while operating a log-hauling outfit in his spare time. Several years later he started with Mainland Mack in Langley selling new and used trucks. He loves second hand trucks; "you can't custom build a used truck" Ted and his wife Ann have owned several truck lines, Cascadia Motor Express and Pure Water Transport were the latest; they carried spring water in stainless steel tankers, liquid sugar to honey-bee producers in the western provinces and North West Territories, ran a general freight outfit with 53' heated, insulated tridem vans carrying food commodities throughout western Canada, coin-grade silver to New Jersey, sent film-grade silver in containers to Japan, pretzels out of Pennsylvania, chemicals from Wyoming, Christmas trees from Oregon, California produce, Colorado beer, even diapers and soap out of Salt Lake City. Ted say's he's made a fortune spent a couple.
Author: Finn Murphy Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393608727 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 167
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“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.”—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job.
Author: M. Grube Publisher: Decent Hill ISBN: 1936085070 Category : Truck drivers Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
Get an inside peek into the trucking industry from someone who has driven all kinds of trucks for twenty years. Find answers to all those trucker questions you've always had. Learn the do's and don'ts of the trade. Get informed and entertained all at the same time. Written in an informal, free-flowing style, Trucker Paradise is easy to read and will keep you engaged till the very last page. An absolute must read for anyone contemplating a career in the trucking business or for anyone interested in lifting the veil off of this little-understood industry.
Author: Don McTavish Publisher: NeWest Publishers Ltd. ISBN: 9781896300719 Category : Truck driving Languages : en Pages : 0
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Join McTavish and his fellow haulers as they...- hunt down and retrieve a stolen rig.- sweat bullets hauling burning boxcars and molten steel.- park a bulldozer in a living room to keep it warm.- slip, slide, and spin up and down icy inclines and muddy trails.- reveal the secrets of real trucking life in a step-by-step haul.- pass on wisdom and warnings about the ins and outs of life on the highway.
Author: V. W. Sheperd Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781499159653 Category : Truck driving Languages : en Pages : 0
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The road is a long and winding place in V. W. Sheperd's fascinating debut collection, Over and Over the Road: A Truck Driver's Stories. This short-story compilation, based on Sheperd's real-life experiences while on the road as a cross-country truck driver, features the ups, downs, and everything in between as he forges a life for himself in the confines of a high-rise tractor trailer. Life is never dull when you're driving hundreds of miles a day for three months at a time. Through it all, Sheperd manages to keep his humor, his wits, and his sanity. With seventy-eight different tales of terrible weather, terrifying near-accidents, fascinating people, and philosophical observations, readers will gain a glimpse of the unpredictable- and oddly beautiful- life out on the open road.
Author: Fred Afflerbach Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 089733700X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 264
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Roll On celebrates the freedom of the open road. The reader rides shotgun in an aging yet durable Peterbilt diesel rig on an interstate odyssey with longtime independent truck driver, Ubi Sunt. Traversing the Painted Desert, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and through the nation's breadbasket into the gritty northeast, you will meet misfits, wayfarers and dreamers . In the literary tradition of escape and return, and journey to enlightenment, Ubi faces tough choices. The highway is home but the road is changing. And his only daughter offers an ultimatum: Settle down or else.
Author: Shane Hamilton Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400828791 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 323
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Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial interests. Hamilton challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. The roots of rural conservatism, Hamilton demonstrates, took hold long before the culture wars and free-market fanaticism of the 1990s. As Hamilton shows, truckers helped build an economic order that brought low-priced consumer goods to a greater number of Americans. They piloted the big rigs that linked America's factory farms and agribusiness food processors to suburban supermarkets across the country. Trucking Country is the gripping account of truckers whose support of post-New Deal free enterprise was so virulent that it sparked violent highway blockades in the 1970s. It's the story of "bandit" drivers who inspired country songwriters and Hollywood filmmakers to celebrate the "last American cowboy," and of ordinary blue-collar workers who helped make possible the deregulatory policies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and set the stage for Wal-Mart to become America's most powerful corporation in today's low-price, low-wage economy. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Author: Rolene Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477133941 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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A Tale of Two Truckers tells the story of the transition of the author from a perfectly normal life into the predominantly male operated trucking industry in the early 1980’s and the trials she endured. The story takes you back to a lifestyle and time many young people today could never imagine becasue there was little technology - not even mobile phones! The tale reveals the relentless struggles and challenges she faced along with her partner Randy, and her dog named Hooter, as they ventured forth to secure a career in the trucking industry. She fi nds herself in unimaginable and sometimes frightful predicaments, taking her readers with her into a world they never knew existed. Maintaining her sense of humor throughout the ordeal, she is not afraid to tell it like it was, something her trucker partner Randy, never would have done.
Author: Long-Haul Larry Publisher: Epublishing Works! ISBN: 9781644571576 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Climb aboard Big Blue and ride along with veteran trucker, Long-Haul Larry as he tells tales of his journeys across America's heartland. Share in the humor and struggle of driving a truck for the first time and teaching others to do the same. Experience nail-biting tension while trucking through ice and wind. Learn how to train a cat and how not to train your wife. Find out what to wear when the shooting starts and discover the fastest way to get a Thanksgiving turkey. Know how NOT to meet your maker and what it's like to walk a stranger to the hereafter. Larry's stories will move, entertain, and impress you in ways you never imagined as you experience life as an American trucker. Publisher Note: Truckerology is a clean and wholesome read appropriate for readers of all ages. This book is a series of short-stories sure to warm the heart and tickle the funny-bone.
Author: Ed Miller
Author: Ed Miller
Author: Ted Campbell
Author: Finn Murphy
Author: M. Grube
Author: Don McTavish
Author: V. W. Sheperd
Author: Fred Afflerbach
Author: Shane Hamilton
Author: Rolene
Author: Long-Haul Larry