The Trucker

Author : Rothe, J. Peter (John Peter)
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412839408

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The Trucker's World by Rothe, J. Peter (John Peter) Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara Samuels
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374378042

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The Trucker by Barbara Samuels Pdf

A boy who loves trucks is disappointed when he receives a cat named Lola instead of a toy fire truck, but Lola proves to be a "trucker" after all.

Author : Chris Hanly
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644388457

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The Trucker's Nightmare by Chris Hanly Pdf

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.

Author : Gerald Howard
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781644249963

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The Trucker's Bible by Gerald Howard Pdf

This book is intended to reduce your learning curve if you are new to trucking. It will also help you survive the popular “lease purchase” that so many trucking companies are using to attract drivers. This book will help you save money and reduce stress in your daily life. Even if you don’t drive a truck, this book is full of insight into the life of truckers for those who are curious.

Author : Chris Hanly
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647180393

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The Trucker's Nightmare Continues: Book 2 by Chris Hanly Pdf

The Trucker's Nightmare Continues will pull you into the darkest reaches of a truck driver's mind. Every experience draws you deeper into the twisted lives of those involved in this industry. This is a world where truck drivers, prostitutes, homeless people, and some of the everyday people have to face situations beyond their control. Storms, thieves, plagues, death and life all bring about unexpected and horrific results, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Many of the secrets are kept from the public's eye to keep some semblance of peace and security in this country, as the lives of those involved are drastically changed forever, or are prematurely ended. Every horrific story in this second book of the series continues to bring the reader into the secret lives of the people hidden from the rest of the world, only to be left pondering what had happened in the end. The lives of those living in the nightmare as well as the reader will be forever altered. The question of where the line of sanity and insanity in these stories have a tendency to blend into each other as each of the stories continue to grow, leaving everyone in a state of potential danger. The Trucker' Nightmare Continues will draw you deeper into the lifestyle of the men and women who keep this country running, and the dangers that they have to deal with, or bring into the world, on a day to day basis. As a result, your thinking will be altered. Some will take more caution in dealing with others, while some of you will throw caution out, challenging the trucking world to a challenge of life and death, simply to experience a small piece of the nightmare that exists out there. Either way, after reading this book, your life will be changed.

Author : Chris Hanly
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647196318

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The Trucker's Nightmare Never Ends: Book 3 by Chris Hanly Pdf

The Trucker's Nightmare Never Ends is the 3rd fictional book in a series involving the darker side of the trucking industry. Every story is unique in that they all are different from the other stories. Each one of them has its own unexpected twist to them, leaving the reader pondering what it was they had just read. From the fears that lurk in one's heart, including going into the dark secrets of the night, mixing things up with prostitutes, to deadly machines and into abandoned towns. Every story has its own web to weave as it draws the reader deeper into the darkest reaches of an industry that so few really can understand. Once you catch a glimpse inside, it will grab ahold of you and not let go. Even in psyching yourself up for what is written in these pages you will not be prepared for it. The stories from The Trucker's Nightmare series will stay with you for a long time. Some of them you will never forget. And your perception in how you look at our great American truck drivers may never be the same again.

Author : Ed Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 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'.

Author : Finn Murphy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.

Author : Kim Norman
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683359654

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Hush, Little Trucker by Kim Norman Pdf

Soothe truck-loving toddlers off to sleep with this vehicle-themed bedtime picture book Hush, little trucker, you’re in luck. Mama’s gonna find your lost toy truck. A new spin on the classic song “Hush, Little Baby,” this truck-themed lullaby follows a mother and child as they discover different vehicles, from a bulldozer to a front-end loader. Kim Norman’s gentle rhyming text, paired with Toshiki Nakamura’s imaginative illustrations, makes this picture book a great option for bedtime read-alouds.

Author : Annie Wilder
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 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.

Author : Jamie Schlosser
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535204958

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Trucker by Jamie Schlosser Pdf

ANGEL I know what you're whispering in the car as you pass me by. Hitchhiker. When you see me walking along the side of the road with my thumb out, you'll probably keep driving without giving me a second glance. You probably think I'm foolish. Naïve. You might assume I've made some bad decisions. You might think I'm too young to be on my own. You might be right. TRAVIS I love my job, but driving an eighteen-wheeler comes with a certain stereotype. When you hear I'm a trucker, a specific image might come to mind. Uneducated. Dirty. Perverted. Rough around the edges and a little bit dangerous. But the truth is, I'm not any of those things. In fact, I'm pretty far from it. You'd be surprised to find out I'm one of the good guys.Trucker is a standalone novel. Due to language and sexual content, this book is intended for readers 18 and older.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015010642034

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Railway Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Z. S. Ahmed
Publisher : Zaramina Books
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1778292151

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When The Truckers Roared: A Tale of Freedom & The Fight for Human Rights by Z. S. Ahmed Pdf

The Freedom Convoy of 2022 started in Canada and instantly sparked similar movements across the globe. Author Z.S. Ahmed immortalizes this inspiring global phenomenon through this poetic and historical account for children and parents, alike. It takes readers through the the trials and tribulations of the preceding months, as well as the funding and media challenges facing the truckers and their supporters after the campaign was well underway. Commemorate this important historic event for yourself and your children by purchasing a copy today - and always remember the time 'When The Truckers Roared!'

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:B2905936

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House of Commons Debates, Official Report by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Joe Mathieu
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553509656

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Big Joe's Trailer Truck by Joe Mathieu Pdf

Vehicle-obsessed boys and girls can follow Big Joe through a typical day’s work in his giant trailer truck. Detail-packed full-color illustrations will fascinate readers—especially the final two-page spread, which labels every working part of a tractor-trailer rig.