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MY FATHER'S HEART:
A SON'S JOURNEY
Author: Steve McKee
ISBN:
0738210978
Publisher:
Da Capo Lifelong Books
Hardcover - 320 pages
Book Description
In MY FATHER'S HEART: A SON'S JOURNEY, The author talks
about going with his Dad to the Cole Steel warehouse on Saturday mornings,
maybe once a month, where he did little more than walk the floor, talking
to whoever was in picking up some overtime:
EXCERPT:
Dad ended his Saturday over at the loading docks to talk with the
truckers.
Dad envied the truckers. He had been one. In a different world he might
still have been one. Like a baseball manager who knows he is only as good
as his players, Dad knew he was only as good as the men driving the
trucks.
When we were on the road at night Dad always flashed his high beams a
couple of times when a trucker passed him and wanted to move in. Dad was
one with every trucker on the road. They were keeping America moving.
Maybe this driver here who had just flashed his lights back at Dad by way
of thanks was carrying a Cole Steel load. Dad needed his warehouse
workers, the foremen, the forklift guys, and the loaders. But at the other
end of the line it was the truckers who showed up on time with the trailer
of four-drawer letter files, a Cole Steel staple, to make Red McKee look
good. "Modern-day cowboys," Dad called them, out there on the open road,
their own boss. I think he envied that freedom, real or imagined.
This is a book about a guy whose father died of a heart attack. Trucking
is a tough business. The road exacts its toll. Cardiovascular disease is
all too often one of those tolls; MY FATHER'S HEART speaks directly to
this problem, to this reality.
Order Code
0738210978
$25.00 + S&H
 A
Survival Guide for Truck Drivers: Tips from the
Trenches
By Adams, Alice;
Ryder, Andrew
ISBN: 1401810624
Publisher:
Delmar Thomson
Learning
Book Description
An employer's cost to replace a driver ranges from $5,000
to $8,000. Turnover can be prevented and retention increased by developing
a driver with the life skills necessary to be successful in their daily
working lives. A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers is the only book written
for students or experienced drivers that offers, in a straightforward and
non-patronizing style, the practical tips for making life on the road more
stress-free and comfortable, both for the driver and his or her family.
Until now, drivers usually entered the transportation industry armed with
a Commercial Driver's License and perhaps stories and information from
friends and family. This new guide not only provides valuable information
and invaluable insights into the life of a professional driver, but also
offers resources and encouragement for those who keep North America's
commerce moving down the highway. Topics range from Money Management and
Professional Improvement to Staying Healthy and Dealing With Stress,
presenting advice to make the driver's life better and happier. This
lifestyle guide has a universal application that will appeal to student
drivers, company drivers, owner-operators, and also the drivers' families.
A driving school graduate's chance of landing a good job partly depends on
his or her possession of life skills. Good retention tools are needed for
the experienced but problem driver. A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers is
the one solution for successful drivers.
Order Code:
IP-SGTD
$ 22.95 + S&H
 Sweatshops
on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation
By Belzer, Michael H
ISBN
0195128869
Publisher:
Oxford University
Press
Book Description
Long hours,
low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years
ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today.
Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes
the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking
industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have
dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of
pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today,
America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at
any time during the last four decades. Written by a former long-haul
trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University,
Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking
deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of
government deregulation in general.
Order Code:
IP-SSW
$ 29.95 +S&H
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Hey We're
Dying Out Here:
The Truth Behind the Trucker Shortage
Author: Jeff
Clark
ISBN: 1432718290
Publisher:
Outskirts Press
Paperback 140
pages
Book Description
Why Truckers are Dying and How to Stop it!
The stereotype is that truckers are lazy. The truth is that truckers are
working themselves to death. We spend hours at work everyday not getting
paid and not logging it. The result is that the 16 hour day is more common
than the 8 hour day. The consequences are that drivers over caffeinate,
under exercise, eat on the run, and die about 15 years younger than the
general population.
Trucking publications have been encouraging truckers to adopt healthy
lifestyle changes. That is great. But it solves less than half the issues.
Clark attacks the whole problem. Truckers are being killed by a system
that is abusing them. As a veteran trucker Clark has seen the problem.
Hey, We're Dying Out Here offers practical solutions. Clark's ideas can
save truckers. By saving good drivers we can improve or remove bad ones
and make the highways safer for everyone.
Order Code
1432718290
$8.95 + S&H
Pedal to
the Metal: The Work Life of Truckers
The Work Lives of Truckers
By: Ouellet, Lawrence; Cuellet, Lawrence
ISBN: 1566391768
Publisher:
Temple
University Press
Book Description
From
Library Journal
Ouellet, a sociologist who drove trucks for 13 years, has produced a
fascinating study of the lives and work ethic of truckers. He offers more
than a study of truck drivers, as his entertaining work adds to research
on blue-collar workers and their interests, motivations, and job
satisfactions. By conducting his research after his acceptance as a
co-worker and peer, Ouellet gains heretofore unavailable insight while
uncovering many surprising facts and trends. He explores, for instance,
the range of identities truckers create for themselves as the renegade
cowboy, the company man, the voyeur, or the lone king of the road. This
surprisingly interesting and informative book is recommended for public
and academic collections. Eric C. Shoaf, Brown Univ. Lib.,
Providence, R.I.
Copyright
1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Order
Code:IP-PTTM
$ 26.95 + S&H
 Big
Rigs: The Complete History of the American Semi Truck
By:
Holtzman, Stan
ISBN: 0896587371
Publisher:
Voyageur Press (MN)
Book Description
"Big Rigs" is a fabulous photographic tribute to these venerable
workhorses of the road--American semi trucks and trailers--from the past
100 years. It provides a general introduction to the history of semis with
chapters devoted to all of the major makes of Class 8 diesel trucks,
including Mack, Peterbilt, Kenworth, Freightliner, International, Western
Star, GMC, White, and more.
Order Code:
IP-BR
$ 21.95 + S&H
 Truckers
and Troopers
by Jim
Geeting
© 2005
From:
Lulu Press
ISBN:
1-4116-2472-6
Book Description
In this third
offering by Jim Geeting, he pays tribute to the thousands of truckers he
met and admired over his two decades on Interstate 80. The retired and
decorated Wyoming state trooper describes a love-hate relationship between
two different American heroes. This book tells a multitude of stories
describing sacrifice, compassion and valor-not by the trooper-but by the
truckers! A great one- or two-sitting read you will open back up, again and
again.
Order Code: TAT
$19.95 + S&H
The All-American
Truck Stop Cookbook
By Ken Beck, Jim
Clark,
& Les Kerr
Rutledge Hill Press © 2002
ISBN
1-5585396-6-2
Book
Description
Remember the
simpler days before interstates when there was no such thing as a
fast-food restaurant? After driving along a two-lane highway all day long
and wanting to pick a place to eat, your mother would say, "Look for a
place where all the trucks are stopped!"
Order Code:
AATSCB
$16.95 + S&H
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