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Author: Albert Mroz
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780873413688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents classic photographs and detailed description of 1,250 work vehicles from 1891 to 1996, including fire trucks, earth movers, buses, coaches and military vehicles and offers information on their histories and manufacturers.
Author: Niels Jansen
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781870979566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNinety years of American trucks in 130 color photos. This fascinating collection of working pickups is illustrated with rare old photographs, manufacturers' sales material, and photography of new and restored trucks.
Author: United States. Office of Defense Transportation
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harry Moses
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780679449461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects photographs and histories of classic pickup trucks built in the United States between 1913 to 1960.
Author: Stan Holtzman
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781610605731
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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
Author: Robert Lemon
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0252051297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIcons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence—sometimes desired, sometimes resented—that turns a public street corner into a bustling business. Drawing on interviews with taco truck workers and his own skills as a geographer, Robert Lemon illuminates new truths about foodways, community, and the unexpected places where ethnicity, class, and culture meet. Lemon focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Columbus, Ohio, to show how the arrival of taco trucks challenge preconceived ideas of urban planning even as cities use them to reinvent whole neighborhoods. As Lemon charts the relationships between food practices and city spaces, he uncovers the many ways residents and politicians alike contest, celebrate, and influence not only where your favorite truck parks, but what's on the menu.
Author: Justin Lukach
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781579120115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the development and unceasing popularity of the pickup truck in America
Author: Norm Mort
Publisher: Veloce Publishing
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845842277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis highly visual study covers the US and Canadian truck manufacturers that built trucks in North America in the 1950s. Following World War II, North American truck manufacturers responded to the prosperity of the 1950s with fresh designs and features. These rugged, reliable trucks were capable of transcontinental commutes of goods on a regular basis, or performing delivery and construction tasks in and around cities. This concise volume covers not only the histories of the major and lesser known truck manufactures, but also the obscure, yet historically significant manufacturers such as Available, Biederman, Brown, Corbitt, Leyland Canada and others. Comprehensive captions and supportive text combine with contemporary brochures, period literature, road test info of the day, factory photographs and over fifty color photos of restored American trucks, to relate the importance of these historic vehicles. Detailed shots of the engines and features focus on what it was that set certain manufacturers apart in this highly competitive market. This succinct, factual book on American trucking provides a nostalgic look at a significant era in North American history.
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.
