Riding Shotgun in an 18-Wheeler
Author: Toni Dietkus
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Published: 2011-10-05
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1618970305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories about experiences of people who drive eighteen wheeled trucks for a living.
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The Big Rig
Author: Steve Viscelli
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0520962710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong-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.
Big Rigs
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Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 2005-07
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780896587373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK9 x 12 160 pgs 225 color & b&w photos & artwork index
Have You Seen My 18 Wheeler?
Author: Russell King
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-02-08
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9781495486913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook 4 in a series of 11 interactive picture books/travel games showing 19 trucking companies. Children and bored adult passengers search for, spot, and get points to locate 18 Wheelers while driving on the interstate or stopping at truck stops. Books are in sequential order, from largest firms (Book 1 with 96,870) to smallest (Book 12 with 712). Includes close-ups of the tractor, trailer, and company names. The idea is to spot the 18 wheeler and record certain information. This is another version of the "License Plate Game" or "The Alphabet Game," only an 18 wheeler is easier to spot than a license plate.
Bumping the Dock: A Story of God's Grace and an 18-Wheeler
Author: Annette F. Wilcox
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-11
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781950108954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI am an unlikely person to be a long-haul trucker. People comment that I look more like a librarian or an English teacher than a trucker. And I have been both. Trucking is physically a little too hard for me. Perhaps for this reason, my life as a trucker has been one of radical dependence on God. The truck runs, after all, by grace, and I'm on the road only as long as God wants me to be. I have truly experienced that God's mercies are new every morning and are inexhaustible. He always helps! That's what this story is about.
Big Rig
Author: Louise Hawes
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2022-08-09
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 168263454X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHitch a ride with 11-year-old Hazmat and her dad in their 18-wheeler, Leonardo, for a feel-good road trip across America that keeps on trucking! Life on the road with Daddy is as good as gets for Hazmat. Together, they've been taking jobs and crisscrossing the US for years. Now Daddy's talking about putting down roots—somewhere Hazmat can go to a real school and make friends. Somewhere Daddy doesn't have to mail-order textbooks about "nature's promise to all women." Somewhere Mom's ashes can rest on a mantel and not on a dashboard. While everything just keeps changing, sometimes in ways she can't control, Hazmat isn't ready to give up the freedom of long-distance hauling. Sure the road is filled with surprises, from plane crashes and robo trucks to runaway hitchhikers and abandoned babies, but that all makes for great stories! So Hazmat hatches a plan to make sure Daddy's dream never becomes a reality. Because there's only one place Hazmat belongs: in the navigator's seat, right next to Daddy, with the whole country flying by and each day different from the last. Award-winning author Louise Hawes writes with an easy, conversational voice and an "I'll never grow up" spirit that cheerfully thumbs its nose at traditional coming-of-age narratives. This heart-tugging, laugh-out-loud portrait of a father and daughter is a satisfying journey across modern America you won't want to miss.
18 Wheels of Horror
Author: John Palisano
Publisher: Big Time Books
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0990686639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPsychotic killers, devious ghosts, alien monsters, howling storms, undead creatures, and other dark forces haunt the highways and the truckers who drive them in these 18 chilling tales! Contains the Bram Stoker Award winning story "Happy Joe's Rest Stop" by John Palisano. A ghostly voice on a trucker’s CB radio knows more about his life than it should… Two drivers find their cargo gives them inhuman appetites… A boy in a truck stop encounters a supernatural force that threatens to destroy the world… The hypnotic singing lulling a driver to sleep might not be coming from the tires… A fender-bender between a big rig and a four wheeler is not as accidental as it seems… The sinister cargo lurking in a rock and roll band’s fleet of trucks is unleashed at their final show... Hit the road with this anthology of trucking horror fiction!
Big Rig [Board Book]
Author: Jamie A. Swenson
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781423192527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCome along for the ride as Frankie the big rig truck takes us on the job, driving past kiddie cars (school buses) and land yachts (RVs). Hear the horn blow and the wipers schwaat the windshield clean. But, BANG SHHUUU Uh-oh: a blow-out Don't worry, a service truck saves the day so we can get the job done and make a very special delivery. Author Jamie Swenson takes readers from zero to sixty with her fast-talking truck and Ned Young's bright and engaging illustrations are perfect for sharing with the youngest truck enthusiasts in this board-book format. Praise for Big Rig (hardcover edition) " T]he story is consistently entertaining . . . and Young (the Zoomer books) fills his bright, eye-catching scenes with myriad details to explore." -Publishers Weekly "Youngsters who meet Frankie will be looking for him on every highway, as he's a friend they won't soon forget." -Kirkus Reviews "A friendly, peppy addition to the canon of books for truck-obsessed tots...." -Booklist " A] fun read-aloud for toddlers and a good storytime participation book as well." -School Library Journal
The Runaway No-wheeler
Author: Peter Stein
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 0593114205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrucks! Counting! Tire-eating aliens! This wonderful, rhyming, super-silly book has it ALL...including Bob Staake's awesome artwork. THE RUNAWAY NO-WHEELER is a clever spin on a counting book and the perennial favorite, a book starring trucks. Tony is a sturdy, long-hauling 18-wheeler with a delivery to make, but many obstacles are in the way -- from potholes to slime to rescue missions to aliens' space rockets. In the style of counting classics like Dr. Seuss' Ten Apples Up on Top -- though in this case, subtractive counting -- Tony finds himself losing wheel after wheel with each hurdle he encounters. Will he be able to make his delivery?
18 Wheels of Science Fiction
Author: Eric Miller
Publisher: Big Time Books
Published: 2018-11-04
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a trip through the imaginations of 18 visionary writers as they explore the future of trucking in this new science fiction anthology! There's something for every genre fiction fan in this follow-up to the hit "18 wheels of Horror - a Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors." From the back cover: An alien fuel additive shows just how fast a big rig can go... A disembodied driver wages war on self-driving trucks... A haul through time takes an unexpected turn... Reality shatters for a trucker using an experimental delivery device... Stargazing gives an overweight driver a new lease on life... A young girl risks her life to hitch a ride out of an apocalyptic wasteland... The highways of the universe will never be the same!
