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’.

“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.

Climb aboard Big Blue and ride along with veteran trucker, Long-Haul Larry as he tells tales of his journeys across America's heartland. Share in the humor and struggle of driving a truck for the first time and teaching others to do the same. Experience nail-biting tension while trucking through ice and wind. Learn how to train a cat and how not to train your wife. Find out what to wear when the shooting starts and discover the fastest way to get a Thanksgiving turkey. Know how NOT to meet your maker and what it's like to walk a stranger to the hereafter. Larry's stories will move, entertain, and impress you in ways you never imagined as you experience life as an American trucker. Publisher Note: Truckerology is a clean and wholesome read appropriate for readers of all ages. This book is a series of short-stories sure to warm the heart and tickle the funny-bone. About The Author Veteran trucker, Long-Haul Larry hails from the eastern lowlands of Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee, but can be found anywhere along America's vast highways piloting Big Blue along with Chicken Johnny. Larry firmly believes, "If you're gonna drive 'em, you better be able to fix 'em." Using his natural mechanical aptitude and experience as a truck mechanic, he keeps Big Blue "running the miles" and their deliveries on time. Join Larry and Chicken Johnny in their daily adventures on the Long-Haul Larry YouTube Channel at https://bit.ly/LongHaulLarry. What's up with the chicken, you ask? You'll have to look for Chicken Johnny on Larry's YouTube channel to find out. Special thanks to John Vollrath with JBG Travels for the Introduction.

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.

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.

When it comes to trucking Ted Campbell has "been there - done that" He's driven almost every truck, engine and transmission combination and carried every load imaginable. At age eighteen when no one would hire him as a driver because he had no experience he talked his Mother into co-signing a loan, traded his almost new Chevy Bel Air for a "Big Job" Ford and went trucking. Since then he's hauled lumber, gravel, logs, delivered new trucks from the factory even had two rigs on the Rogers Pass on opening day. In 1963 he was driving molten metal truck for Alcan at Kitimat when they asked him to go to UBC to attend a "teach the teachers" course. When he returned he taught an equipment operators course for five years while operating a log-hauling outfit in his spare time. Several years later he started with Mainland Mack in Langley selling new and used trucks. He loves second hand trucks; "you can't custom build a used truck" Ted and his wife Ann have owned several truck lines, Cascadia Motor Express and Pure Water Transport were the latest; they carried spring water in stainless steel tankers, liquid sugar to honey-bee producers in the western provinces and North West Territories, ran a general freight outfit with 53' heated, insulated tridem vans carrying food commodities throughout western Canada, coin-grade silver to New Jersey, sent film-grade silver in containers to Japan, pretzels out of Pennsylvania, chemicals from Wyoming, Christmas trees from Oregon, California produce, Colorado beer, even diapers and soap out of Salt Lake City. Ted say's he's made a fortune spent a couple.

Have Truck Will Travel tells the story of one man's futile efforts to keep the wolves from the door by driving trucks for a living and life in general as a General Haulage Driver. It's about the loneliness and the boredom of the open road. It's about what these so called Knights of the Road get up to on all those nights they spend away from home – never mind what they tell the boss (or the wife). And last but not least it's about the never ending battle of wits between the Driver and his Transport Manager in their dogged determination to get one over on each other. But please be warned - this is Donkey's tale. It's nitty, it's gritty and it's raw. so if you're the type of person who may take humbridge to bad language and scenes of raw sex and quite gratuitous violence, then please buy something else.