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Author: Steve Viscelli Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520962710 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 285
Book Description
Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.
Author: Steve Viscelli Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520962710 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 285
Book Description
Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.
Author: Shane Hamilton Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400828791 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 323
Book Description
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: Clement Harrison Publisher: Muze Publishing ISBN: 9781914207136 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 174
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How to build a trucking business from scratch, even if you have zero business background With the surge of online shopping all over the world, the logistics and warehousing industries are more in demand than ever. Trucking is an essential part of this supply chain, accounting for over 70% of all freight transported in the United States and worth over $700 billion. Do you want to get a piece of this incredibly gigantic pie, even if you don't have hundreds of dollars to invest? Actually, you can. Starting your own trucking company doesn't have to be something reserved for major corporations with bottomless wallets. Even an ordinary individual like you can start a trucking business in just 30 days with some guts, determination, creative thinking, and the help of this straightforward guide to starting your own trucking company. In Trucking Business Startup 2021, you will discover: The best way to get regular customers for your business without having to give any commission How to negotiate higher rates on your loads without employing sneaky tactics by using these easy-to-implement strategies The first thing you should do before choosing a truck so you don't end up with half-empty trucks 8 common reasons why trucking businesses fail within the first year, and how to make sure you're not one of them What to look for on a load board that will get you better deals and more bargaining power A little-known trick to save money on fuel that goes against common sense thinking, but will benefit you in the long run Up-to-date information on the applicable laws and regulations that you need to comply with before you start And much more. Maybe you've been working in the trucking industry for years, tolerating long journeys and lonely nights, and you want to be able to finally work on your own terms. Maybe you don't have any experience in trucking, but you smell a lucrative opportunity in this solid industry. No matter what your background and reason for wanting to get into trucking, if you're serious about having your own trucking company, you'll need to enter with eyes wide open. As in any business, there will be plenty of hurdles to overcome, especially in a highly regulated industry like this. From setting up your company, to dealing with strict regulations, ensuring safety, minimizing costs, finding loads, and hiring and retaining quality drivers, you've got a lot of hard work ahead of you. But once you've gone through the growing pains and get through to the other side, it will be all worth it. More freedom, independence, and flexibility, plus a bigger share of the profits. What else are you waiting for? If you don't want to miss out on the profits from a $700 billion-dollar (and growing!) industry, then scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button right now.
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: 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: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Publisher: ISBN: Category : Transportation, Automotive Languages : en Pages : 516
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 1478
Author: Janet Walker Publisher: ISBN: 9781736084908 Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
Book Description
WHAT YOU DIDN'T LEARN IN TRUCKING SCHOOL is a refreshingly frank and delightful pocket guide that offers practical advice and etiquette tips for truck drivers. Being a truck driver is not easy. Truckers' challenges include working long hours, being hundreds of miles from home and constantly trying to avoid or prevent hazards on the roadway. The biggest complaint truck drivers have? Other truck drivers! Especially the ones with toilet habits you wouldn't tolerate from kindergartners. Janet Walker shares with readers the opinions, gripes and peeves she has collected from drivers during her 12 years in the trucking industry. To help remedy these problems, she offers solutions that, if implemented, can help make the trucking lifestyle more enjoyable and more respectful for the men and women who are the heroes of our country's highways. This little book of etiquette is a valuable guide for anyone who wants to be a truck driver in America-and who wants to know which habits to avoid as they travel the road to truck-driving success.
Author: Stephen Deusner Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477323937 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 295
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In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as they named themselves, grew into one of the best and most consequential rock bands of the twenty-first century, a great live act whose songs deliver the truth and nuance rarely bestowed on Southerners, so often reduced to stereotypes. Where the Devil Don’t Stay tells the band’s unlikely story not chronologically but geographically. Seeing the Truckers’ albums as roadmaps through a landscape that is half-real, half-imagined, their fellow Southerner Stephen Deusner travels to the places the band’s members have lived in and written about. Tracking the band from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Richmond, Virginia, to the author’s hometown in McNairy County, Tennessee, Deusner explores the Truckers’ complex relationship to the South and the issues of class, race, history, and religion that run through their music. Drawing on new interviews with past and present band members, including Jason Isbell, Where the Devil Don’t Stay is more than the story of a great American band; it’s a reflection on the power of music and how it can frame and shape a larger culture.
Author: Steve Viscelli
Author: Steve Viscelli
Author: Fried Rogers Goldberg LLC
Author: Shane Hamilton
Author: Clement Harrison
Author: Finn Murphy
Author: Anne Balay
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Author: Janet Walker
Author: Stephen Deusner