Take a ride in a garbage truck in this adorably illustrated board book with sliders and spinning wheels! Discover how important garbage and recycling trucks are in this fun, interactive board book with spinning wheels and sliders! Ride along with garbage trucks and recycling trucks as they go around town picking up trash and helping neighborhoods stay clean. Little ones will enjoy spinning the garbage truck’s wheels, and then pushing and pulling sliders to see garbage disappear, dumpsters be raised and emptied, and more! With this book, every day is garbage day! TONKA and all related trademarks and logos are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. (c)2021 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved. Licensed by Hasbro.

During the course of a week, Steve and his loader work on a variety of construction jobs, at sites ranging from a zoo to a coal mine

Look at those trucks busy at work. The bulldozer pushes away trees. The backhoe digs deep holes. The loader picks up piles of dirt. They are building a new school!

Text and illustrations describe all sorts of trucks used in building a house, on the highway, on a farm, at a fire, and in other places.

Describes the different jobs that a garbage truck and a recycling truck have.

From the creators of the absurdly funny picture book How to Eat an Airplane comes a new spin on adopting a pet...truck. This vehicular spin on pet adoption features an unlikely pet: a dump truck. Kids will not only laugh, but learn. Just like a new pet, a new dump truck is a heap of responsibility, but it’s also loads of fun. Just remember: If you take care of it well, your dump truck will be your forever friend. Includes tips on: selecting the perfect leash at the hardware store; whether to feed your truck diesel or regular; cleaning up your truck’s messes at the dump; socializing with other trucks, and much more. Peter Pearson and Mircea Catusanu’s follow-up to How to Eat an Airplane is clever fun for pet lovers and truck aficionados—whether their pet (or truck) barks, meows, or honks.

In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. These engines and the fuels that fire them have been among the most transformative yet disruptive technologies on the planet. Although this transportation revolution has allowed many of us to fill our homes with global goods even a past emperor would envy, our era of abundance, and the freight transport system in particular, is predicated on the affordability and high energy density of a single fuel, oil. This book explores alternatives to this finite resource including other liquid fuels, truck and locomotive batteries and utility-scale energy storage technology, and various forms of renewable electricity to support electrified transport. Transportation also must adapt to other challenges: Threats from climate change, financial busts, supply-chain failure, and transportation infrastructure decay. Robert Hirsch, who wrote the “Peaking of World Oil Production” report for the U.S. Department of Energy in 2005, said that planning for peak world production must start at least 10, if not 20 years ahead of time. What little planning exists focuses mainly on how to accommodate 30 percent more economic growth while averting climate change, ignoring the possibility that we are at, or near, the end of growth. Taken for granted, the modern transportation system will not endure forever. The time is now to take a realistic and critical look at the choices ahead, and how the future of transportation may unfold.