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Over and Over the Road, a Truck Driver's Stories

Author : V. W. Sheperd
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Truck driving
ISBN : 149915965X

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Over and Over the Road, a Truck Driver's Stories by V. W. Sheperd Pdf

The road is a long and winding place in V. W. Sheperd's fascinating debut collection, Over and Over the Road: A Truck Driver's Stories. This short-story compilation, based on Sheperd's real-life experiences while on the road as a cross-country truck driver, features the ups, downs, and everything in between as he forges a life for himself in the confines of a high-rise tractor trailer. Life is never dull when you're driving hundreds of miles a day for three months at a time. Through it all, Sheperd manages to keep his humor, his wits, and his sanity. With seventy-eight different tales of terrible weather, terrifying near-accidents, fascinating people, and philosophical observations, readers will gain a glimpse of the unpredictable- and oddly beautiful- life out on the open road.

A Trucker's Tale

Author : Ed Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1954641818

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A Trucker's Tale by Ed Miller Pdf

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'.

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

Author : Finn Murphy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780393608724

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The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road by Finn Murphy Pdf

“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.

Trucker Ghost Stories

Author : Annie Wilder
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781429924580

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Trucker Ghost Stories by Annie Wilder Pdf

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.

A Trucker's Tale

Author : Ed Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1948062380

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Wit, wisdom, and revelations from sixty years of life on the road. Driving one highway after another at sunrise, winding through the mountainside, hearing the call to rise of the roosters, or simply exchanging "fishing stories" with the other guys at the truck stops. Like that one about the trucker who stopped along the highway and helped a little old lady who had a flat tire. By the time the trucker had told his tale a dozen times, the simple tire change story turned into one where an old lady was accompanied by her gorgeous, blond, and twenty-one-year-old granddaughter--you know how that ends. Imagine the story traded from one driver to the next, at the gas station or the rest stop, or the truck stop lunch counter over a slice of Edna's apple pie. Each time, a more outrageous yarn is spun. Ed Miller was born into a trucking family and has spent sixty years in the industry. Most truckers are born into the industry. Even when parents advise against it, the hours are long and it means substantial time away from home, it's still hard to resist life on the road; they say that only truck drivers truly experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In this colorful account, Ed shares the allure of the industry and captivating accounts of people he's met on the road. His accounts are sometimes sad, frequently funny, sometime cringeworthy or unbelievable, and some of the best are the results of what he calls, "just plain stupidity." Together they paint a compelling portrait of America and are Ed's attempt to explain why he just kept on truckin'.

King of The Road

Author : Alex Debogorski
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143178941

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King of The Road by Alex Debogorski Pdf

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.

Slow Curve on the Coquihalla

Author : R.E. Donald
Publisher : Proud Horse Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780988111806

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Slow Curve on the Coquihalla by R.E. Donald Pdf

When a well respected truck driver, the owner of a family trucking business, is found dead in his truck down a steep embankment along the Coquihalla highway, his distraught daughter wants to know why the truck went off the road on a gentle uphill curve. Hunter Rayne, a fellow trucker who was formerly an RCMP homicide investigator, feels compelled to help her find the answer and soon becomes convinced it was no accident. As he uncovers signs of illegal cross border activity originating in a Seattle warehouse, Hunter recruits an old friend, an outlaw biker, to infiltrate what appears to be an international smuggling ring. But while Hunter follows up clues and waits for critical information from his old friend, the wily biker starts to play his own angles. Finally, putting all the pieces together, there in the dark on the same uphill curve on the Coquihalla highway, Hunter risks it all to confront the murderer. Slow Curve on the Coquihalla is the first in a traditional mystery series set on the west coast of North America.

Life on the Road: Kiwi Trucking Stories

Author : Randolph Covich
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780143771951

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Life on the Road: Kiwi Trucking Stories by Randolph Covich Pdf

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.

Road Rage

Author : Stephen King,Joe Hill,Chris Ryall,Richard Matheson
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781623020408

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Road Rage by Stephen King,Joe Hill,Chris Ryall,Richard Matheson Pdf

Acclaimed novelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaborated with his father, Stephen King, in Throttle, for the first time on a tale that paid tribute to Richard Matheson's classic tale, Duel. Now, IDW is proud to present comic-book tellings of both stories in Road Rage. Adapted by Chris Ryall with art by Nelson Daniel and Rafa Garres.

Stories From The Road

Author : Don Taylor
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039118645

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Stories From The Road by Don Taylor Pdf

This book chronicles my thirty-plus years in the transportation industry. Starting as a taxi driver during a transit strike, to driving Long Combination Vehicles, measuring over 120 feet long, weighing over 130,000 lbs. My travels have taken me to all of the lower forty-eight states, and all Canadian provinces except Newfoundland. Some of the stories are quite humours, others are quite tragic. All have had a lasting effect on me.

Blood, Sweat and Tears on the Highway

Author : By T. M. Lamb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1794200282

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Blood, Sweat and Tears on the Highway by By T. M. Lamb Pdf

True stories of trucking in America and the True life adventures of a real live Driver Trainer. Who trained the future Professional Truck Drivers in America. Some stories are sad, some are funny, some are scary but they ARE ALL TRUE STORIES of America's Professional Drivers. You will laugh, you will cry, you will hurl.

Truckerology

Author : Long-Haul Larry,
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644571569

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Truckerology by Long-Haul Larry, Pdf

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.

Is over the Road Trucking for You?

Author : Gordon J. Knapp
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781463403324

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Is over the Road Trucking for You? by Gordon J. Knapp Pdf

THE MEAT AND POTATOES OF TRUCKING THE TRUTH ABOUT: TRAINING SCHOOLS COMPANY DRIVER LEASE-OPERATOR OWNER-OPERATOR SAFETY ISSUES UNDERSTANDING LOGBOOKS PAY AND CONDITIONS FATIGUE CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS DRIVER RETENTION PROBLEM Why is there a continuing ongoing shortage of 80,000 OVER THE ROAD truck drivers??? THIS BOOK SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE INTERESTED IN OVER THE ROAD TRUCKING AS A CAREER. IT SHOULD ALSO BE OF INTEREST TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER DRIVEN A TRUCK OR IS PRESENTLY DRIVING A TRUCK, AS WELL AS THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN REGARD TO SAFELY SHARING THE HIGHWAYS WITH BIG TRUCKS. THIS IS REALITY! THIS IS TRUTH!

Witness to Heaven’S Interventions

Author : Kim Wigley
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973603108

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Witness to Heaven’S Interventions by Kim Wigley Pdf

When were traveling on the road of life, we are often confronted with important questions: Does God listen? Does he care about our normal, everyday lives? Will he answer our prayers? And do miracles happen today? We hope to find answers to these questions, and thankfully, God has provided signs and a road map to help us along the way. In Witness to Heavens Interventions: A Truckers Story, author and truck driver Kim Wigley shares his personal testimony of how God has been there for him to answer the tough questions in life. From his early childhood years to his family life as a father, Kim reminds us that God is always with us and cares about us. Kims stories from the road will inspire you to stay faithful and believe in the miraculous blessings that only God can provide. There are many forks on the road of life, and if we trust in God and choose the way of salvation through Jesus Christ, then we can be sure that God will lead us on the road to lasting peace, hope, and joy with him at the last stopeternity.

King of the Road

Author : Alex Debogorski
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0470643684

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King of the Road by Alex Debogorski Pdf

Inside one of the world's most dangerous jobs with the star of History's top-rated reality show, Ice Road Truckers The highest-rated reality show ever to hit the History channel, 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 shares tales of his adventures-and misadventures-in the north, and explain, in his own entertaining voice, how he got to where he is today-working class hero, bona-fide celebrity, and the improbable star of a smash-hit television show. Alex is a natural storyteller who knows how to spin tales about his colorful 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 bar room full of combative, drunken miners, or saving the life of another trucker, he keeps you wanting more. The first inside look at industry legend and fan favorite Alex Debogorski, a devout Christian, father of 11 children, and the world's best known truck driver Includes thrilling adventures and behind-the-scenes insights that you won't find on the show Features sidebars that explain the facts about ice roads, from how they're made to when and why they splinter and break 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.