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Author |
: Thomas Rivello |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 2001-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0759683565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780759683563 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoirs of This Trucker by : Thomas Rivello
Truck driver Rivello spends years on the road with his downfalls of bad judgment, uplifts of satisfaction, and the humor of life itself. The heartaches are also endured by his wife, who made difficult decisions, dangerous trips and sexual episodes, all in the pursuit of true happiness.
Author |
: Finn Murphy |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 167 |
Release |
: 2017-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393608724 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393608727 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road by : Finn Murphy
“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 |
: Ed Miller |
Publisher |
: Apollo Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 2020-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781948062398 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1948062399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Trucker's Tale by : Ed Miller
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 |
: Amy Butcher |
Publisher |
: Little A |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2021-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 154201431X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781542014311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Mothertrucker by : Amy Butcher
The true story of two women who found meaning, strength, and friendship in one of the most punishing and magnificent landscapes on earth. Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified of the ways her partner's behavior could escalate, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe. Joy was a fifty-year-old wife and mother and the nation's only female ice road trucker, a woman who maneuvered big rigs through the Alaskan wilderness along the deadliest road in America. Joy was everything Amy wanted to be: independent, fearless, and in charge of her life in a landscape dominated by men. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun, Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous, beautiful, and exhilarating--an adventurous ride through the Alaskan wilderness that was profoundly life changing. Mothertrucker is the story of that bracing four-hundred-mile journey navigating snow-glazed overpasses, ice-blue curves, and near plummets. It's also the stories that led them both to Alaska--an interrogation of the reality of female fear, domestic violence, and how to overcome--and an exploration into just how galvanizing friendships between women can be.
Author |
: Fred Afflerbach |
Publisher |
: Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2012-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780897337007 |
ISBN-13 |
: 089733700X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roll On by : Fred Afflerbach
Roll On celebrates the freedom of the open road. The reader rides shotgun in an aging yet durable Peterbilt diesel rig on an interstate odyssey with longtime independent truck driver, Ubi Sunt. Traversing the Painted Desert, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and through the nation's breadbasket into the gritty northeast, you will meet misfits, wayfarers and dreamers . In the literary tradition of escape and return, and journey to enlightenment, Ubi faces tough choices. The highway is home but the road is changing. And his only daughter offers an ultimatum: Settle down or else.
Author |
: Jerry Alcorn |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2021-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798522533373 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis As I Remember: My Life As a Trucker by : Jerry Alcorn
"The objective to this book is to share my experiences and observations, including advancement in truck design and technology... Basically, the great changes that have taken place over the last 7 decades." "Each truck was equipped with a hand throttle which the driver would pull out to keep the engine RPM up. Then stand on the cab step, holding the drivers door open with his left hand and steering the truck with his right hand. When they reached the end of a long pull, the driver would slip back into the driver's seat and take over the controls."
Author |
: Gordon Pearce |
Publisher |
: Fox Chapel Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2015-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781910456187 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1910456187 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where's Sharawrah?: A Truck Driver's Adventure Across the Arabian Desert by : Gordon Pearce
Three articulated trucks load in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: two Volvo 4X2 European road artics and a Mercedes 6X6 desert artic. Their destination is Sharawrah, somewhere south of The Empty Quarter. Seven days to travel a thousand kilometers, a third of which are open desert. Seven days that will turn into seventy.... This is the true story of Gordon Pearce, an English truck driver determined to get the job done. With the help of Bedouins, he crossed three hundred kilometers of unpredictable desert in the height of the summer of 1978. Aside from the physical challenges, he also has to battle bureaucracy and begins to dread hearing the word bukkera (tomorrow). Told in an ironic modest style and illustrated with photos from that time, Where's Sharawrah? is a captivating book for vehicle enthusiasts and anyone who is passionate about truck adventures. [Subject: Memoir, Transportation]
Author |
: Rajat Ubhaykar |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2019-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789386797650 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9386797658 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Truck de India! by : Rajat Ubhaykar
"The share auto I squeeze into next seems unusually vulnerable after a night in the truck - too compact, too low down. Perhaps, these are the usual side effects of prolonged riding with the king of the road, I think to myself. But it is only when I fill in ‘truck’ as my mode of transportation in the hotel ledger at Udaipur does the utter ludicrousness of my endeavour truly hit home" Think truck drivers, and movie scenes of them drunkenly crushing inconvenient people to their gravelly deaths come to mind. But what are their lives on the road actually like? In Truck De India!, journalist Rajat Ubhaykar embarks on a 10,000 km-long, 100% unplanned trip, hitchhiking with truckers all across India. On the way, he makes unexpected friendships; listens to highway ghost stories; discovers the near-fatal consequences of overloading trucks; documents the fascinating tradition of truck art in Punjab; travels alongside nomadic shepherds in Kashmir; encounters endemic corruption repeatedly; survives NH39, the insurgent-ridden highway through Nagaland and Manipur; and is unfailingly greeted by the unconditional kindness of perfect strangers. Imbued with humour, empathy, and a keen sense of history, Truck De India! is a travelogue like no other you've read. It is the story of India, and Indians, on the road.
Author |
: Alex Debogorski |
Publisher |
: Penguin Canada |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2010-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143178941 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143178946 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis King of The Road by : Alex Debogorski
The highest-rated reality show ever to hit History Television, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north. Alex Debogorski shares tales of his adventures, and misadventures, in the north, and explains, in his own entertaining voice, how he got to where he is today—a working-class hero, bona fide celebrity, and the improbable star of a smash-hit television show. Debogorski is a natural storyteller who knows how to spin tales about his colourful life growing up in the backwoods. Whether he's recounting tales about his hair-raising confrontations with bears, calculating the strength of newly formed ice, divulging the secrets of providing security in a barroom full of combative, drunken miners, or saving the life of another trucker, he keeps readers wanting more. King of the Road gives fans of Ice Road Truckers a deep look inside the life and times of the show's biggest rising star.
Author |
: Long-Haul Larry, |
Publisher |
: ePublishing Works! |
Total Pages |
: 131 |
Release |
: 2020-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781644571569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1644571560 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Truckerology by : Long-Haul Larry,
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.