I Drive a Semitruck
Author: Sarah Bridges
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781404806160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains what happens when you drive a semitruck.
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The Long Blink
Author: Brian Kuebler
Publisher: Behler Publications
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1941887058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE LONG BLINK is a narrative nonfiction book by Emmy Award-winning journalist, Brian Kuebler, who exposes the staggering cost of the American trucking industry’s rising crash rate through the intimate struggle of Ed Slattery, who is left to piece his family back together after a trucker fell asleep at the wheel and killed his wife and maimed his son. From the historic, public settlement with the trucking company and a bizarre confrontation with its driver to one father’s ongoing and, more recently, frustrating fight on Capitol Hill for safer roads, the Slattery’s story is a revealing, emotional look at the rapidly growing danger we all face from the passing lane each and every day.
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
Emergency Response Guidebook
Author: U.S. Department of Transportation
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-06-03
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1626363765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes the identification number 60 indicate a toxic substance or a flammable solid, in the molten state at an elevated temperature? Does the identification number 1035 indicate ethane or butane? What is the difference between natural gas transmission pipelines and natural gas distribution pipelines? If you came upon an overturned truck on the highway that was leaking, would you be able to identify if it was hazardous and know what steps to take? Questions like these and more are answered in the Emergency Response Guidebook. Learn how to identify symbols for and vehicles carrying toxic, flammable, explosive, radioactive, or otherwise harmful substances and how to respond once an incident involving those substances has been identified. Always be prepared in situations that are unfamiliar and dangerous and know how to rectify them. Keeping this guide around at all times will ensure that, if you were to come upon a transportation situation involving hazardous substances or dangerous goods, you will be able to help keep others and yourself out of danger. With color-coded pages for quick and easy reference, this is the official manual used by first responders in the United States and Canada for transportation incidents involving dangerous goods or hazardous materials.
The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
Author: Finn Murphy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0393608727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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.
With Any Luck, I'll Drive a Truck
Author: David Friend
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 0399169563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA little boy has a grand time pretending to drive every big vehicle he can imagine.
Bumper to Bumper
Author: Mike Byrnes & Associates
Publisher: Mike Byrnes & Associates, Inc.
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780962168765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTextbook for tractor semitrailer operations: fourth edition includes current information on hours of service, hazardous materials, cargo securement, in-cab technology; trucking industry history; U.S. regulations; procedures; descriptions of systems, components, use/maintenance requirements; troubleshooting; safe driving; economy driving; regulated activities. Includnes end-of-chapter tests, Observation Skills Tests, illustrations, index
A Motor Carrier's Guide to Improving Highway Safety
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health, and Highway Safety
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0309392527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might have involved fatigued drivers. The stresses associated with their particular jobs (irregular schedules, etc.) and the lifestyle that many truck and bus drivers lead, puts them at substantial risk for insufficient sleep and for developing short- and long-term health problems. Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health and Highway Safety assesses the state of knowledge about the relationship of such factors as hours of driving, hours on duty, and periods of rest to the fatigue experienced by truck and bus drivers while driving and the implications for the safe operation of their vehicles. This report evaluates the relationship of these factors to drivers' health over the longer term, and identifies improvements in data and research methods that can lead to better understanding in both areas.
