Download or read book You Call We Haul written by Mat Ireland and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for founding international haulier, Trans UK, Bob Carter was involved in the ground-breaking changes occurring in British transport of the 60s and 70s. Beginning in the army, where he witnessed nuclear testing on Christmas Island in the 1950s, Carter went on to be a driver, office worker, and, finally, company owner. Never afraid to get his hands dirty, Bob was able to turn his hand to any aspect of his business operation, from repairing mechanical defects to operating forklifts, and driving his own trucks. In 1975, he set out on Trans UK's maiden run to Iran in his Humber Sceptre with four of his trucks in convoy-the first trip of many for the company. The denationalization of BRS and the implementation of the 'O' licence, the rapid growth of privately owned haulage companies, combined with the Middle East oil boom of the 70s, all helped Bob to develop a successful British and international transport operation. Including nearly 300 previously unpublished photos, You Call, We Haul is an inspirational story which will appeal to those with an interest in the heyday of Middle-East travel, and those with a general love of great British transport companies. [Subject: Middle East Studies, Transportation, Biography]

Download or read book Paramedics On and Off the Streets written by Michael K. Corman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta. Corman's comprehensive research includes more than 200 hours of participant observation ride-alongs with paramedics over a period of eleven months, more than one hundred first hand interviews with paramedics, and thirty-six interviews with other emergency medical personnel including administrators, call-takers and dispatchers, nurses, and doctors. At the heart of this ethnography are questions about the role of paramedics in urban environments, the role of information and communication technologies in contemporary health care governance, and the organization and accountability of pre-hospital medical services. Paramedics On and Off the Streets is the first institutional ethnography to explore the role and increasing importance of paramedics in our healthcare system. It takes readers on a journey into the everyday lives of EMS personnel and provides an in-depth sociological analysis of the work of pre-hospital health care professionals in the twenty-first century.

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Download or read book Kiss the Sky written by Jan Hornung and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-05-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KISS the Sky: Helicopter Tales is a humorous look at flying helicopters. Whether you fly fixed-wing or rotary-wing, or you know someones second cousin twice removed who flies kites, you can fly along with Bubba Huey in this hilarious book that will have pilots and pilot wannabes of all ages rolling with laughter. Included in the book is a history of helicopter flight, women in aviation, and a lesson in how helicopters fly.

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Download or read book Suddenly Dark written by George William Knauer and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George William Knauer never had an easy life: He grew up as one of seven children and was placed in foster care after his mother was institutionalized with Huntingtons disease. He ended up at Wiltwyck School for Boys, a reform school supported by Eleanor Roosevelt. When he left school after the eighth grade, he threw himself headfirst into the plumbing and heating field. He established his own plumbing and heating business, marrying and divorcing five times along the way. When he was in his fifties, Knauer went completely blind, but he continued to take care of two of his brothersand he kept working as a plumber under the name Blind Mice Plumbing and Heating. But not everything went smoothly: He survived numerous near-death experienceseven falling out of a third-floor window. After each ordeal, he successfully reinvented himself and continued living life. In telling his story, Knauer shares what its really like to deal with Huntingtons disease. James Pollard, a world-renowned authority on the disease, has lent his expertise about the disease throughout the book.