Download or read book The Role set of the Truck Driver written by Bruce Patrick Day and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Truck Driver written by Zane Parker Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The Trucker s World written by Rothe, J. Peter (John Peter) and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about truck driver's lives, risks, and views on safety. As "a "group, truckers represent a significant population of road users whose high-exposure driving creates a major challenge for safety. Research into the larger social, political, and economic forces that affect trucker's safety problems has been scarce. "The Trucker's World "comes to terms with the socioeconomic environment that contributes to breakdown in trucker safety and chronicles the lives and times of truckers as they try to make ends meet. It analyzes driver risk by exploring the reasons, reactions, and consequences of risk. The author approaches his task with a research question: Why is the average trucker continuously placed in conditions that, according to truckers, demand risky driving? As a result of direct experience with truckers and trucking, Rothe observes that truck drivers act as they do to gain autonomy over their work, freedom from control of others, and assurance of a reasonable livelihood. In order to maintain a sufficient income in the transportation market, even the most serious drivers perform tasks that often impinge on lethality and safety, not as blatant radicals or daredevils fighting the system, but as persons responding to the fear that they may lose their livelihood in trucking. The thrust in trucker safety has followed a victimization philosophy in which emphasis on interventions has been aimed directly at truckers. Rothe contends that safety programs would work better if they emphasized what influences, motivates, or encourages truckers to take chances on the road. With this in mind, he analyzes driver risk, vehicle maintenance, owner-operator, company driver, policing, home life, drugs and alcohol, government regulations, and hours of service as they are seen by truckers, industry officials, and others. Expanding our vision to encompass essential factors in the socioeconomic reality of the truck-driving culture. Rothe elucidates the far-reaching consequences that safety issues have for truckers, other road users, policymakers, and traffic safety educators.
Download or read book Careers in Trucking written by Richard Barrington and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thorough look into the trucking industry and the job prospects available. Readers learn about truckings past, present, and future, and get a realistic look into whats involved in the job. The benefits include the freedom to be on the open road but there are also hardships, such as long, irregular hours and shifting fuel prices. However, readers quickly learn that theres much more to the industry than the big-rigs populating the highways. The job of truck driver can include those who drive delivery vehicles, short-haul drivers, hazardous materials drivers, and even forklift operators. The industry is rapidly changing, with technology improving logistics, making trucking more efficient. E-commerce is increasing business with more items shipped over the Internet. Also included are comprehensive details about the industry, such as how to receive a commercial drivers license, training, and the rigorous work schedule of long-haul drivers. This book offers readers an enlightening look at this essential career.
Download or read book This Truckin Life written by Laurie Driver and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a set of reflections and recollections of a truck driver's forty plus years in the hard and unforgiving world of the haulage and transport industry. It delves into methods resorted to in order to survive and make ends meet for himself and his family, in a world where the truck driver is deemed the lowest of the low. There is humor, pathos, some love and some violence. There are tales of underhand dealings, fiddles and thievery. It tells of times when truck driving was a man's world. Hard relentless toil, long, unsocial hours, when there was no power steering and all gearboxes were constant mesh. When roping and sheeting was the norm. When truck driving was not just a job, it was a way of life.
Download or read book NEW TO OTR written by Chris Aragon and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Aragon provides a direct, somewhat cynical, and slightly gruff look at the everyday tasks and responsibilities of being an Over The Road Truck Driver as an employee of a very large trucking company. Hollywood has always painted the public picture of what yesterday’s trucker looked like, but Chris’s hard toned look at the modern and highly regulated Commercial Drivers License paints a much different picture. With Road Safety at the center, Chris attempts to explain some of the complexity that is today’s Trucking Industry for the Non-Owner-Operator of the 18 Wheeler Culture. From the starting point of obtaining a Class A Commercial Driver’s License to the day to day dealings with company management to the suggestions for comfort while out on a national tour, Chris lays his no nonsense approach out in a raw sense without the hidden meanings tucked in the folds. In Chris’s previous full career as a Corrections Officer Sergeant in a maximum security setting, he developed a Funny Frowned Face as opposed to a poker face in communicating his thoughts. Chris often jokes about his Grumpy Personality with many of his friends and family and he hopes that the raw and pungent outlay doesn’t protrude itself as overly provocative to any reader.
Download or read book Truck Driver written by Connor Syrewicz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many high school graduates, college is a way to get ahead, but going to college is not the only way for young adults to succeed. Many people choose to enter the workforce after high school to start earning money and gaining experience right away. These motivated young workers can have rewarding jobs without ever having to earn a 4-year college degree. If you're interested in seeing the country from behind the wheel and don't know that you want to—or can—go to college, a career as a truck driver might be right for you. Young people need only a high school diploma or equivalent to start work as a truck driver, and they can eventually earn more than $50,000 a year driving. In Truck Drivers, you'll learn how to start a career as a driver and what you need to succeed in the field. Find out about the prospects for these careers in the future, how much drivers can make each year, and whether your path to success includes a career as a truck driver.
Download or read book Lorry Driver Ils 154 written by Peter G Hollowell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume V of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1968, this is a study in occupational sociology and looks at status and role of the lorry driver, and the consequences of industrial structure provided by the analysis of the observed behaviour and recorded attitudes of a sample of this group of workers.
Download or read book Careers in Trucking written by Donald D. Schauer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the majority of the nations cargo being transported via trucks, this industry is rapidly growing. Trucking employs people with a variety of skills, offering work opportunities that will meet the needs of almost anyone who wants to be involved with t
Download or read book Systematic and Engaging Early Literacy written by Barbara Culatta and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trucker s Guide for the Beginning Truck Driver written by Thomas Francs and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is for individuals looking to become a truck driver or just graduated from truck driving school. The information in this guide will go well beyond what you learn in truck driving school or from a driver trainer. The guide is not for preparation to take the CDL exams, it is for information about different trucking procedures and what you should know as a beginning truck driver. · Learn about different types of truck driving jobs and how to find the right one for you. · Learn what you should know and what to look for when searching for a truck driving job. · Learn about loading, unloading, and weight distribution procedures. · Learn the different basic procedures used at Shipping and Receiving facilities · Learn about cargo container terminals and intermodal procedures. · The information in this guide will help you to succeed as a truck driver.
Download or read book Order on the Edge of Chaos written by Edward J. Lawler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Order on the Edge of Chaos answers the question: how do people today create and sustain order in their lives and in their groups?
Download or read book The Trucker s World written by John Peter Rothe and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about truck driver's lives, risks, and views on safety. As a group, truckers represent a significant population of road users whose high-exposure driving creates a major challenge for safety. Research into the larger social, political, and economic forces that affect trucker's safety problems has been scarce. The Trucker's World comes to terms with the socioeconomic environment that contributes to breakdown in trucker safety and chronicles the lives and times of truckers as they try to make ends meet. It analyzes driver risk by exploring the reasons, reactions, and consequences of risk. The author approaches his task with a research question: Why is the average trucker continuously placed in conditions that, according to truckers, demand risky driving? As a result of direct experience with truckers and trucking, Rothe observes that truck drivers act as they do to gain autonomy over their work, freedom from control of others, and assurance of a reasonable livelihood. In order to maintain a sufficient income in the transportation market, even the most serious drivers perform tasks that often impinge on lethality and safety, not as blatant radicals or daredevils fighting the system, but as persons responding to the fear that they may lose their livelihood in trucking. The thrust in trucker safety has followed a victimization philosophy in which emphasis on interventions has been aimed directly at truckers. Rothe contends that safety programs would work better if they emphasized what influences, motivates, or encourages truckers to take chances on the road. With this in mind, he analyzes driver risk, vehicle maintenance, owner-operator, company driver, policing, home life, drugs and alcohol, government regulations, and hours of service as they are seen by truckers, industry officials, and others. Expanding our vision to encompass essential factors in the socioeconomic reality of the truck-driving culture. Rothe elucidates the far-reaching consequences that safety issues have for truckers, other road users, policymakers, and traffic safety educators.
Download or read book Running Legal Blues written by Jeff H. Head and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running Legal Blues by Jeff Head The book made me laugh, cry and most importantly, think and very educational about the trucking industry. All words and descriptions used to describe Running Legal Blues by those that have taken the time to read and enjoy the book. Others have noted "Not a polished piece of work" and to them I say "Of course not." It was never intended for RLB to meet the very high standards that some readers demand. Instead, the book was written by a truck driver, in his own words, and straight from the heart. As you spend some time with me as I travel through the years starting out as a renegade trucker doing what it takes to put the load through to its destination, then in later years demanding to run safe and legal; you will find yourself learning and understanding the trucking industry as you have never understood it before. You will follow me through the changes in the industry and the drivers themselves as I become a safe and legal driver as more and more drivers are in today's world . Most importantly, you will see the obstacles that drivers face when they decide to do it the safe way, the legal way. Understand the roles that shippers and receivers, dispatchers and even the government play in the day to day life of an over the road truck driver. Most importantly, you will learn just what happens to a driver that decides to buck the system and demand to put safety and running legal above all those that do not have time for him to do so. Of all the things I would hope "Running Legal Blues" to do, I would hope that it will bring a better understanding between truckers and the traveling public that we share the road with. Highway safety is something that all must believe in if it is to save lives. In today's world there are thousands of truckers that know and understand this. If given a chance, if protected from those that would see these truckers starved out of the industry, their numbers will continue to grow. So hop in the jump seat and let us take a trip or two around the country. Let us see if you have what it takes to handle one of the big rigs out on the open road and all of the politics that come with the job.
Download or read book Oversight of the Federal Truck Driver Hours of service Rules and Truck Safety written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everything You Will Ever Need to Know to Start Driving a Big Truck Or How I Became a Professional Tourist written by Steve Richards and published by Steve Richards. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about driving a big truck? Have you ever even just wondered what really goes on in the world of eighteen wheelers? Can you be a trucker? It looks interesting, but it must be complicated. How can anyone even begin to maneuver one of those huge monstrosities? Trust me, you can do this! Not only is it possible for almost anyone to successfully navigate into the world of transportation, but you will be helping out a necessary part of the economy and one that is constantly and even desperately in search of drivers. There is no employment for a big rig driver. Let me show you how to do it all! Everything you will ever need to know is right here in these pages including how to find some of the most incredible jobs, and many things that you are not supposed to know about. And there are MANY things you are not supposed to know about. So jump on it and learn what it takes to get paid to do what others are willing to pay for the privilege of doing. With me as your tour guide you will be able to get out and see sights, be a permanent vacation, and you will learn just what it takes to become happily involved as a "Professional Tourist."
