Download or read book A Trucker s Tale written by Ed Miller and published by Apollo Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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’.

Download or read book Trucker Ghost Stories written by Annie Wilder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of firsthand accounts from truckers who have driven all over the United States and have encountered strange and unusual phenomenons which can only be described as paranormal.

Download or read book The Big Rig written by Steve Viscelli and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Truck Drivers written by Betsy Rathburn and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truck drivers travel near and far to deliver goods! But that is not their only duty. This fun book uses bright photos and leveled text highlights how truck drivers make deliveries, meet deadlines, and stay safe on the road! Special features highlight truck driver skills and gear, while photo labels and a picture glossary help readers understand challenging words.

Download or read book Truckerology written by Long-Haul Larry, and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. About The Author Veteran trucker, Long-Haul Larry hails from the eastern lowlands of Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee, but can be found anywhere along America's vast highways piloting Big Blue along with Chicken Johnny. Larry firmly believes, "If you're gonna drive 'em, you better be able to fix 'em." Using his natural mechanical aptitude and experience as a truck mechanic, he keeps Big Blue "running the miles" and their deliveries on time. Join Larry and Chicken Johnny in their daily adventures on the Long-Haul Larry YouTube Channel at https://bit.ly/LongHaulLarry. What's up with the chicken, you ask? You'll have to look for Chicken Johnny on Larry's YouTube channel to find out. Special thanks to John Vollrath with JBG Travels for the Introduction.

Download or read book Mother Trucker written by David Hamel and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of how a middle-aged married couple abandon lucrative white-collar professional careers to become long-haul truck drivers for Schneider National in Green Bay, WI. David Hamel, a mechanical engineer, and Shelley Hamel, past Director of Product Development for the American Girl doll company, decide to ditch their urban life and go to truck-driving school. For David, driving school was a piece of cake. For Shelley, it was murder. Nearly flunking out of truck driving school, Shelley successfully faces her twin demons of double-clutching and ten nasty gears, and with her talented mechanical engineer husband, David, launches a 3-year experiment in alternative living before retirement. For all those people who long to quit their office jobs, team driving offers an escape not unlike full-time RVing, except you get paid to do it. This how-to guide examines life on the open road, the upside as well as the danger, with many day-to-day details of ways to maximize the freedom of exploration in this non-traditional life. Driving a semi with a 52' trailer coast to coast gives you a view of America like no other, and this book brings you right into the sleeper cab with the Hamels to share stories, tips, and firsthand experience.

Download or read book With Any Luck I ll Drive a Truck written by David Friend and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy has a grand time pretending to drive every big vehicle he can imagine.

Download or read book Grandpa and the Truck Book One written by Colleen Kelly Mellor and published by Truckerkidzpress. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandpa is a famous trucker, eager to share life lessons from the road with children who love trucks.

Download or read book The Vampire Trucker written by John R. Cole and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire Trucker was born in Berlin, Germany, in the year 1657. His identity must be changed every fifty years, as questions arise why he continues to live on, as others around him begin to die off. In todays world, he takes the role of an eighteen-wheeler truck driver. This story revolves around his life on the road, the people he comes in contact with, along with his conquests, all unbeknownst to the fact that he is a vampire among us posing and living the dream as an owner/operator truck driver. This book would not have been possible without the help of coauthor, Victoria C. Nyulassie.

Download or read book Trucker Tales Fifty Years of Trucking written by Ted Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Don Bailey Story written by Jim Martz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Bailey is proof that the American dream can be a reality. His drive to success took him from truck driver's helper to super salesman to owner of the very building where he started his career. Born in a poor rural town in Georgia, he grew up in Miami and dropped out of college after one semester for lack of funds. He went on to excel at the school of hard knocks and became more than a guy who sells carpet and has a crazy billboard, more than a guy who started a flooring business and real estate business on borrowed money, more than a numbers man, more than the life of the party. He's the guy who bought an underprivileged employee a home or car, mentored his children and tithed to mankind. This is his story in his own words and in the words of his children, wives, brother, friends, business partners and employees. "I don't think Don has ever met a stranger. He's every man's Rodney Dangerfield, a guy who truly is the one liner and the wit." Butch Davis, Former University of Miami, Cleveland Browns and North Carolina coach. "Don is unique. He loves to be part of Miami. He knows Miami. He is Miami." Randy Shannon, former University of Miami player, assistant and head coach. "Don is a great success story. An American success story." Lee Corso, ESPN college football analyst, former college coach. "I found Don very funny. He is crazy ... an enigma ... a good guy." Ferdie Pacheco, the fi ght doctor, artist, author. "He has been like a father fi gure to me, as well as a good employer. The whole family has." Leshan Kelly, long-time employee. "I've never met a better business person and harder worker, and besides that he has always been a real generous and kind person." Hank Fineberg, long-time friend and business associate. "What he has accomplished will inspire people and prove the American dream can be a reality." Don Bailey, Jr.

Download or read book Truck Drivers written by Erika S. Manley and published by Bullfrog Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Truck Drivers, beginning readers will learn about the work truck drivers do to move goods around the country. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they discover where truck drivers work and how they spend their days.

Download or read book The Truck Driver s Daughter written by Denise R. Weuve and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers written by Alice Adams and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An employer’s cost to replace a driver ranges from $5,000 to $8,000. Turnover can be prevented and retention increased by developing a driver with the life skills necessary to be successful in their daily working lives. A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers is the only book written for students or experienced drivers that offers, in a straightforward and nonpatronizing style, the practical tips for making life on the road more stress-free and comfortable – both for the driver and his or her family.Until now, drivers usually entered the transportation industry armed with a Commercial Drivers License and perhaps stories and information from friends and family. This new guide not only provides valuable information and invaluable insights into the life of a professional driver, but also offers resources and encouragement for those who keep North America’s commerce moving down the highway.Topics range from Money Management and Professional Improvement to Staying Healthy and Dealing With Stress – presenting advice to make the driver’s life better and happier. This lifestyle guide has a universal application that will appeal to student drivers, company drivers, owner-operators, and also the drivers’ families.A driving school graduate’s chance of landing a good job partly depends on his or her possession of life skills. Good retention tools are needed for the experienced but problem driver. A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers is the one solution for successful drivers.

Download or read book Toots written by Donna Marie Vawdrey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toots Holzheimer, a hard working mother of eight, drove trucks for a living from the 1960's to 1990's across some of Australia's most inhospitable terrain, Cape York Peninsula. Toots delivered freight to the northern tip of Australia for over thirty years, servicing her own trucks, loading them by hand (without a forklift until the late 1980s) and then driving for days alone. Toots and her husband Ron constructed their own roads and built their own bridges, renewing them after each wet season. Without bitumen roads, Toots battled corrugation, melon holes, washouts and bull-dust. Flies and mosquitoes were her constant companions as she dug her way out of bogs or coaxed her 'Old Girl', a M.A.N. diesel truck, up and down the steep slopes of the Great Dividing Range. Nothing raised Toots' ire more quickly than someone telling her what she could or couldn't do. Attitude was what mattered to Toots, not gender. Toots attributed her success in life to her determination to 'Do what you want to do and do it well'.

Download or read book Trucking Tales written by Truckers Media and published by Truckers Media. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Trucker s Nightmare written by Chris Hanly and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Truckers Nightmare enters a darker side of the events that take place in the trucking world. Things can change so drastically without a moments notice. The simple task of delivering a load to a customer could very quickly turn into a series of events where one could possibly be facing his own demise. The events in these stories are about the lives, hardships, and unexpected, life changing circumstances that occur, in the lonely life of a driver out on the road. The fatigue, the stress, and the insanity that can consume the very life and can even go as far as to destroy one's family are written in these pages. The long hours, unexpected break downs, delays, and time away from home, along with the lonely nights and even longer days, test the men and women, bringing them to a point, in many cases of no return. Many of them allow the insanity that consumes them to run rampant in their lives, while others become victims of circumstances, unaware of the consequences involved. Others become victims of their environment, not being able to have a say in what happens to them. The stories in this series are each written with its own unexpected story line and twists to throw the reader off.