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Book Synopsis Is Over the Road Trucking for You? by : Gordon J. Knapp
Download or read book Is Over the Road Trucking for You? written by Gordon J. Knapp and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MEAT AND POTATOES OF TRUCKING THE TRUTH ABOUT: TRAINING SCHOOLS COMPANY DRIVER LEASE-OPERATOR OWNER-OPERATOR SAFETY ISSUES UNDERSTANDING LOGBOOKS PAY AND CONDITIONS FATIGUE CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS DRIVER RETENTION PROBLEM Why is there a continuing ongoing shortage of 80,000 OVER THE ROAD truck drivers THIS BOOK SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE INTERESTED IN OVER THE ROAD TRUCKING AS A CAREER. IT SHOULD ALSO BE OF INTEREST TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER DRIVEN A TRUCK OR IS PRESENTLY DRIVING A TRUCK, AS WELL AS THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN REGARD TO SAFELY SHARING THE HIGHWAYS WITH BIG TRUCKS. THIS IS REALITY! THIS IS TRUTH!
Book Synopsis Is over the Road Trucking for You? by : Gordon J. Knapp
Download or read book Is over the Road Trucking for You? written by Gordon J. Knapp and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MEAT AND POTATOES OF TRUCKING THE TRUTH ABOUT: TRAINING SCHOOLS COMPANY DRIVER LEASE-OPERATOR OWNER-OPERATOR SAFETY ISSUES UNDERSTANDING LOGBOOKS PAY AND CONDITIONS FATIGUE CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS DRIVER RETENTION PROBLEM Why is there a continuing ongoing shortage of 80,000 OVER THE ROAD truck drivers??? THIS BOOK SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE INTERESTED IN OVER THE ROAD TRUCKING AS A CAREER. IT SHOULD ALSO BE OF INTEREST TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER DRIVEN A TRUCK OR IS PRESENTLY DRIVING A TRUCK, AS WELL AS THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN REGARD TO SAFELY SHARING THE HIGHWAYS WITH BIG TRUCKS. THIS IS REALITY! THIS IS TRUTH!
Download or read book The Big Rig written by Steve Viscelli and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-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.
Book Synopsis The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road by : Finn Murphy
Download or read book The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road written by Finn Murphy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Book Synopsis Becoming a Truck Driver by : Brett Aquila
Download or read book Becoming a Truck Driver written by Brett Aquila and published by . This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: www.truckingtruth.com Trucking schools can teach you to drive, but nobody's there to teach you everything else.This book is a no-holds-barred, call 'em as I see 'em account of what I went through when I decided to become a truck driver. I hope to shed some light on what the trucking industry is REALLY like, with no hidden agendas and no regrets.I have absolutely loved my years on the road. The experiences, the friends, the money, the challenges, and the freedom. "There are so many things to know if you want to be successful on the road and they take years to learn.I'm talking about things they don't teach in truck driving schools and things companies don't talk about..at least not honestly. There are "grey areas" and "unwritten rules" in the trucking industry that have a major impact on your life and your career - and only time on the road will reveal the reailtiesof becoming a truck driver......"- Brett Aquila, Author - "Becoming A Truck Driver:The Raw Truth About Trucking"
Download or read book NEW TO OTR written by Chris Aragon and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Aragon provides a direct, somewhat cynical, and slightly gruff look at the everyday tasks and responsibilities of being an Over The Road Truck Driver as an employee of a very large trucking company. Hollywood has always painted the public picture of what yesterday’s trucker looked like, but Chris’s hard toned look at the modern and highly regulated Commercial Drivers License paints a much different picture. With Road Safety at the center, Chris attempts to explain some of the complexity that is today’s Trucking Industry for the Non-Owner-Operator of the 18 Wheeler Culture. From the starting point of obtaining a Class A Commercial Driver’s License to the day to day dealings with company management to the suggestions for comfort while out on a national tour, Chris lays his no nonsense approach out in a raw sense without the hidden meanings tucked in the folds. In Chris’s previous full career as a Corrections Officer Sergeant in a maximum security setting, he developed a Funny Frowned Face as opposed to a poker face in communicating his thoughts. Chris often jokes about his Grumpy Personality with many of his friends and family and he hopes that the raw and pungent outlay doesn’t protrude itself as overly provocative to any reader.
Book Synopsis Is Over the Road Trucking for You? by : Gordon J. Knapp
Download or read book Is Over the Road Trucking for You? written by Gordon J. Knapp and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MotherMelters" is former Riverside County Coroner Investigator Alan Kunzman''s inside story of the investigation into cryonics, and Alcor Life Extension Foundations incriminating involvement in the decapitation and subsequent homicide of Dora Kent. Finally after 15 years he tells his lurid story of the Dora Kent homicide and the incomprehensible manner in which Riverside County Coroner Raymond Carrillo was administering his office. "MotherMelters'' has provided Investigator Alan Kunzman with the path to finally disclose what took place behind the ivy covered walls of the Riverside County Coroners office during the Dora Kent homicide investigation, the most media drenched case of his law enforcement career. From the investigators perspective you will discover the seedy world of Alcor Life Extension Foundation and the manner in which they represented cryonics during his investigation. He exposes the unqualified people that played the parts of scientists, doctors, surgeons and legitimate medically trained professionals, yet most of the participants held no license or degree with the exception of one, Dr. Harris. "MotherMelters" brings to light Alcor Life Extensions affiliation with the church of Venturism, which was located in Arizona and used to recruit new members into Alcor. Once signed, the new member was directed to purchase life insurance through other Alcor members insurance agencies. They were told they had to list Alcor as the beneficiary in order to cover the costs of decapitation and preservation until the end of time. "MotherMelters" exposes the side of cryonics that is never disclosed in the documentaries that continue to be broadcast on national television. The hosts of these programs have never asked the right questions, they simply continue to play into their unscrupulous hands and unwittingly help legitimize cryonics.
Book Synopsis SACRIFICIAL TRUCKER by : Ole R. Cram
Download or read book SACRIFICIAL TRUCKER written by Ole R. Cram and published by Wavecloud Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational and captivating daily journal of suspense, surprise, success, setbacks, and sacrifice as experienced by the author from the first day of trucking school in November 2012 until ending his trucking career in January of 2014 with a dramatic accident. Through all the fears, struggles, and trials, he always kept a positive outlook and was grateful for the many blessings God provided each day. Now you too can take that journey with him through reading The Sacrificial Trucker.
Book Synopsis What You Didn't Learn in Trucking School by : Janet Walker
Download or read book What You Didn't Learn in Trucking School written by Janet Walker and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT YOU DIDN'T LEARN IN TRUCKING SCHOOL is a refreshingly frank and delightful pocket guide that offers practical advice and etiquette tips for truck drivers. Being a truck driver is not easy. Truckers' challenges include working long hours, being hundreds of miles from home and constantly trying to avoid or prevent hazards on the roadway. The biggest complaint truck drivers have? Other truck drivers! Especially the ones with toilet habits you wouldn't tolerate from kindergartners. Janet Walker shares with readers the opinions, gripes and peeves she has collected from drivers during her 12 years in the trucking industry. To help remedy these problems, she offers solutions that, if implemented, can help make the trucking lifestyle more enjoyable and more respectful for the men and women who are the heroes of our country's highways. This little book of etiquette is a valuable guide for anyone who wants to be a truck driver in America-and who wants to know which habits to avoid as they travel the road to truck-driving success.
Book Synopsis Over and Over the Road, a Truck Driver's Stories by : V. W. Sheperd
Download or read book Over and Over the Road, a Truck Driver's Stories written by V. W. Sheperd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road is a long and winding place in V. W. Sheperd's fascinating debut collection, Over and Over the Road: A Truck Driver's Stories. This short-story compilation, based on Sheperd's real-life experiences while on the road as a cross-country truck driver, features the ups, downs, and everything in between as he forges a life for himself in the confines of a high-rise tractor trailer. Life is never dull when you're driving hundreds of miles a day for three months at a time. Through it all, Sheperd manages to keep his humor, his wits, and his sanity. With seventy-eight different tales of terrible weather, terrifying near-accidents, fascinating people, and philosophical observations, readers will gain a glimpse of the unpredictable- and oddly beautiful- life out on the open road.
Book Synopsis A Survival Guide for Over-the-Road Truck Drivers by : Matthew J Ronau
Download or read book A Survival Guide for Over-the-Road Truck Drivers written by Matthew J Ronau and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are new to trucking, been out of trucking or are just looking for an insight into trucking, this guide is for you. It was written for truckers, by an existing trucker, who wanted to pass on knowledge he learned throughout his career that was never taught or told to him. While the industry changes on a daily basis, the content in this guide are the basics of hitting the road and what you can expect.
Book Synopsis $100,000 and Freedom Too by : Ed Wooderson
Download or read book $100,000 and Freedom Too written by Ed Wooderson and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to Truck Driving and how to make money from it. Find out why trucking might be the career for you no matter if you are just entering the workforce or looking for something to supplement your retirement there is something for everyone in the transport industry.
Book Synopsis Over the Road Truck Driver Poems by : Bill Overmyer
Download or read book Over the Road Truck Driver Poems written by Bill Overmyer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Overmyer drove in military convoys as a contract driver for five years in Iraq. Over The Road Truck Driver Poems is his latest work. These poems highlight the daily trials and tribulations of over the road truck drivers around the world. Bill currently works in the North Dakota oil fields.
Book Synopsis Everything You Will Ever Need to Know to Start Driving a Big Truck Or How I Became a Professional Tourist by : Steve Richards
Download or read book Everything You Will Ever Need to Know to Start Driving a Big Truck Or How I Became a Professional Tourist written by Steve Richards and published by Steve Richards. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about driving a big truck? Have you ever even just wondered what really goes on in the world of eighteen wheelers? Can you be a trucker? It looks interesting, but it must be complicated. How can anyone even begin to maneuver one of those huge monstrosities? Trust me, you can do this! Not only is it possible for almost anyone to successfully navigate into the world of transportation, but you will be helping out a necessary part of the economy and one that is constantly and even desperately in search of drivers. There is no employment for a big rig driver. Let me show you how to do it all! Everything you will ever need to know is right here in these pages including how to find some of the most incredible jobs, and many things that you are not supposed to know about. And there are MANY things you are not supposed to know about. So jump on it and learn what it takes to get paid to do what others are willing to pay for the privilege of doing. With me as your tour guide you will be able to get out and see sights, be a permanent vacation, and you will learn just what it takes to become happily involved as a "Professional Tourist."
Book Synopsis How To Become a Truck Driver by : HowExpert
Download or read book How To Become a Truck Driver written by HowExpert and published by HowExpert. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s talk about the money, most truck drivers can expect to earn $30,000-$40,000 in their 1st year. I know some drivers who work as Solo drivers and decide to give up their apartments so they can stay in the truck all year long and save money. They still take days off from time to time, and stay with friends, family or rent a hotel for a few days so they can take a break. Once you have 6 months experience you may be able to find a job that pays more money. I’ve seen motivated drivers earning in the $60,000 range in their 1st year. The money is there to earn if you look for it. Too many drivers get complacent and they stay with the same company in the same position making low wages for years and years. Sometimes all you need to do to increase your income is switch positions within the company. If the company you work for doesn’t offer anything that will take you to the next level then find another company that will. I know a Walmart driver who earns $100,000 year and he’s home every night and weekend. Companies pay you in cents per mile (CPM) so the more mileage you drive the more you earn The bottom line is company drivers can make anywhere from $30,000 to around $100,000 per year. Stay away from company lease options, 99% of the time only the company does well with this type of position. They will make their lease program sound perfect, touting how you will be your own boss and make lots of money. Drivers often find themselves making just enough to cover the WEEKLY truck lease payment. If you want to truly be your own boss as a owner operator of your own truck then save up the money to buy a used truck cash or you may be able to find a 3rd party (not company sponsored) lease program. I have seen a couple of decent 3rd party lease programs, these will allow you to contract with any company you want. So if you’re not making enough money with one company then you can easily switch to another. Owner operators can make anywhere from $50,000 - $250,000 per year. About the Expert I have been driving a truck full time for over 4 years at the time of this publishing. I have been a company driver for 3 of those years and an owner/operator for a bit over one. In the 4+ years that I’ve been driving I have spent one year driving most of the lower 48 states. I haven’t made it up to North Carolina, and a few other states in the northeast but all of the others I have. For the last two years I have been truck driving with my team from Los Angeles to the Kansas City area and back. We did that twice a week. After doing that for about a year I was able to get a driving position working nights and being home every day. I did that for almost year. I left there because the company did a pathetic job of maintaining their equipment. I was afraid of getting stopped by law enforcement. So I left them and got my own truck to take care of. Now I am contracted with a carrier to move their freight and it works out a lot better. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.
Book Synopsis So You Want to Be an Over the Road Truck Driver by : David Ray Fuller
Download or read book So You Want to Be an Over the Road Truck Driver written by David Ray Fuller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know what the real deal is about when it comes to Trucking in America, well here it is. Over the road Truckers go through allot in their everyday life in order to keep the wheels turning in our economy today. We have everything to our availability thanks to them. This book tells the all about Carriers, Money, Family, Driver Turnover , Drivers just plain quitting the Industry all together and much, much more.
Download or read book Trucking Life written by Todd McCann and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trucking Life was written for anyone interested in the world of trucking, whether you simply have a passing interest or you are someone who is considering truck driving as a career. There is a link to a free audiobook version included. The book is over 200 printed pages.The author, who has been a trucker since 1997, describes the trucking lifestyle through the use of stories and a really pathetic attempt at humor. The goal is to keep you amused while you're learning instead of boring you like your 7th grade History teacher did.Many of these stories include his wife of over 20 years and co-driver for 9, whom he lovingly refers to as The Evil Overlord. And yes, she knows and approves of that nickname, so what's that tell you?Topics included in Trucking Life are:How much money can you make?Who makes a good trucker?What's it like to drive a big rig?Can you be away from home?How will you handle downtime on the road?How does your home time work?Can you handle the long driving hours?What's it like to sleep in the truck?What about health issues?What about personal hygiene?How are women truckers treated?What are the job qualifications?Will I have job security?These are just some of the questions that will be answered for you. If you read about all these things and decide truck driving may work for you, you'll need to know the process of becoming a truck driver, so it also covers:Choosing and attending a driving schoolFinding a great jobGoing to orientation classHitting the road with a trainerA day in the life of a trucker
