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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: Truckers Media Publisher: Truckers Media ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 221
Book Description
Enter the world of 'Trucking Tales,' a compendium of ten captivating stories set against the backdrop of the trucking industry. Whether you're a seasoned trucker enduring the often lengthy and tiresome waits during loading and unloading or simply a seeker of gripping tales, this book will command your attention so fully that time will seem to effortlessly slip away. You'll immerse yourself in stories like 'The Time Machine,' where a trucker is mysteriously transported back to the 1950s, or join the journey of '68-PALI, a self-driving truck that gains consciousness. Plunge into the gripping narrative of 'Angry Max,' as an enraged trucker descends into madness. Alongside these, seven other tales await your discovery within this book. These stories provide just the right amount of entertainment, leaving you yearning to savor each one a little longer. Embark on this literary adventure down the road with us.
Author: Randolph Covich Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN: 0143771957 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
Kiwi truckies are the unsung heroes of New Zealand – the men and women who make great personal sacrifice and often risk their lives to keep our country running. The people who devote their life, in some way or another, to what is often a hard and lonely passion. Life on the Road gathers together their fascinating stories. It captures the humour, tragedy, action and extremes of the trucking world, by turns moving between the dramatic, light-hearted and surprising – including runaway trucks, skirmishes with the law, nostalgic tales of the early pioneers, love stories, and more than one practical joke. Whether you’re a trucking die-hard or just love the wide open road and a cracking good yarn, Life on the Roadis a gripping insight into the real lives of Kiwi truckies.
Author: Annie Wilder Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429924586 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 227
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In a uniquely entertaining book by a rising star, here are uncanny true tales of haunted highways, weird encounters, and legends of the road. It may have happened to you; it's happened to almost everyone who's ever driven down a highway at night, or in the fog, or snow. Something suddenly appears: a flash of movement, a shadow...what was it? It could be, as the true stories in this book attest, a ghost. These are true stories from the highways and byways of America. These firsthand accounts are as varied as the storytellers themselves—some are detailed and filled with the terror and suspense that made people feel they had to share what happened to them with others; others are brief and straightforward retellings of truly chilling events. Here is a chupacabra attack on the desert highway between L.A. and Las Vegas; ghost trains and soldiers; UFOs; the prom girl ghost of Alabama; a demon in Texas, and other accounts of the creepy, scary things that truckers and other drivers and passengers told to editor Annie Wilder. With so many different stories, Trucker Ghost Stories moves beyond the usual haunted house to offer stories to entice any ghost story reader...and anyone who's ever wondered.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Finn Murphy Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324006110 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 173
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“Brim[s] with wit, pluck, and hard-won wisdom.” —Jessica Bruder, best-selling author of Nomadland The best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his fortune…in hemp. After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in “the Hemp Space.” When hemp was legalized, after eighty years in federal exile, Colorado became the center of a hemp growing and processing boom. Figuring he’d harvest some of that easy money, Murphy bought a thirty-six-acre farm. What could go wrong? Well, pretty much everything… Rocky Mountain High is the comic chronicle of a wild year as Murphy follows his Great American Dream, gradually losing his shirt but not his spirit. Pivoting away from growing hemp himself, he decides to make himself a middleman. He builds drying sheds the size of football fields. He battles with freezing temperatures and even colder bankers. And he assembles an eclectic crew of workers, including the wry and vastly talented Manuel, the business savvy Pierce, and a scruffy army of “trimmigrants”—specialized farm laborers who roam the country pursuing (or not) their own American Dreams. Pretty soon, Murphy is pitting his dwindling cash against the mercurial buyers who inhabit the Wild West of the hemp market. Told with Murphy’s trademark wit, keen eye for character, and sharp insights into the hardscrabble society around him, Rocky Mountain High is an inside look at the alluring world of the hemp boom and a masterful tale of one entrepreneur’s misadventures.
Author: Jim Haynes Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 1742693741 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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A collection of true stories taken from the lives of trucking men and women from Tarcutta to Alice Springs and all over Australia. The trucker's job-so vital to our nation's everyday life-makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories. This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more inspiring than fiction. The unlikely yarns and tales, collected by Jim Haynes, quickly transport the reader into the intriguing but often hard and lonely world of the long-distance truck driver. There are stories of endurance while crossing the Nullarbor in the early 1950s, of rescuing mates stranded in the desert and dumping wheat in protest at Parliament House, of repossessing vehicles in suburban Adelaide, and of men imprisoned during the long political battle to make the roads of Australia free to carry freight. Steeped in larrikinism, these are salt-of-the-earth Aussie voices from the most genuine characters to ever spin a yarn. Whether you're interested in one of the most significant social revolutions to have shaped our nation, or in these never-say-die modern pioneers who astound with their resourcefulness, or whether you're just after a laugh and a bloody good story, this book is for you.
Author: Dennis Fox Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1681397145 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 173
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Actually, I have driven commercial vehicles throughout the United States and Canada for over five million miles. I covered a quarter of a million miles training others how to drive trucks as well. Trucks are the life of this nation, and I am proud of my involvement.
Author: Pamela Rose Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1973617838 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 101
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Your Life in My Hands vividly describes Gods pursuit of His created, and the lengths to which He goes to draw them into His presence. Pamela Rose is one such creature, and recalls her lifes journey thus far; the good, the bad and the ugly of it all. She attests to the fact that God is in the business of the impossible talking birds! She witnesses to the removal, in one split second, of alcohols long-time addiction, and she illustrates her miraculous transfer from the darks hold into Gods dazzling light. Gracefully broken and mercifully healed, her years of empty busyness and endless striving are no more. Today she walks freely against the ever-rising tide of resistance to our Creator, God, firmly grounded and eternally grateful. With arms locked in inseparable love, and protected by swathes of invisible forces, she seeks to share the heart of God with any and all who will listen and hear, just as she did.
Author: Jim Haynes Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 1925268764 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 627
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The ultimate collection of great racing stories told in Jim Haynes's inimitable style. Jim Haynes, Australia's favourite tale teller, loves the sport of kings as much as he loves Aussie yarns and bush verse. From country picnic tracks to the thoroughbred racecourses of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, from Archer to Black Caviar, from the mysterious punter Louis the Possum to the great trainer Bart Cummings, he brings these two great loves together in the biggest book of Australian racing stories ever. In these stories, full of the humour and romance of the track, Jim reminds us of the great champions, the tragedies, and the unique characters (equine and human) of racing. Here are stories of famous races and jockeys, touts and urgers, nose-to-nose battles and a rort or two, as well as country race meeting where anything can happen. This rich collection captures the heart and soul of the turf and reminds us exactly why a day at the races and having a punt are such an important part of the Australian spirit.
Author: Ed Miller
Author: Ed Miller
Author: Truckers Media
Author: Randolph Covich
Author: Annie Wilder
Author: Finn Murphy
Author: Jim Haynes
Author: Dennis Fox
Author: Pamela Rose
Author: Toni Dietkus
Author: Jim Haynes