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Book Synopsis Stories from a Female Trucker by : Patty Adams
Download or read book Stories from a Female Trucker written by Patty Adams and published by Patty Adams . This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trucking in the 80s was a rough and tumble boys only industry that wasn't accustomed to women drivers. If a woman drove professionally, she was part of a team, usually with her husband or boyfriend. Trucking companies were leery of hiring women, and often we were seen as something far less than drivers. This is my story of being a solo female trucker, my struggles and making it through. I love this industry and would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
Book Synopsis Confessions of a Female Truck Driver by : Rebby Barnard
Download or read book Confessions of a Female Truck Driver written by Rebby Barnard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I aspired to write since early childhood. My mother loved my writing and saved things I wrote at an early age which she treasured. In the 1990s, while driving a semitruck I learned quite a bit about myself and the world. It was fun and memorable, and I will never forget it. Later I drove a taxicab. Passengers sometimes would ask me if we are on the show Taxicab Confessions. I revealed my trucking experiences and changed the title to Confessions of a Female Truck Driver. Just recently, I became a truck driver again! I am so excited to be back-and maybe I will write a sequel to this book one day. What is it really like driving a truck? It's a complete subculture with its own standards, ethics, and dialect. And it never hurts to have a sense of humor. This is the world of the truck driver through my eyes. "Breaker one-nine. Breaker one-nine. We got a great big convoy and I got your back door. Keep the greasy side down and the shiny side up." That's a big 10-4, good buddy
Book Synopsis Stories from a Female Trucker by : Patricia Adams
Download or read book Stories from a Female Trucker written by Patricia Adams and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a solo female trucker in the 1980s when women weren't entirely welcome. Fitting in and overcoming obstacles. Becoming a successful female trucker
Download or read book Mothertrucker written by Amy Butcher and published by Little A. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of two women who found meaning, strength, and friendship in one of the most punishing and magnificent landscapes on earth. Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified of the ways her partner's behavior could escalate, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe. Joy was a fifty-year-old wife and mother and the nation's only female ice road trucker, a woman who maneuvered big rigs through the Alaskan wilderness along the deadliest road in America. Joy was everything Amy wanted to be: independent, fearless, and in charge of her life in a landscape dominated by men. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun, Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous, beautiful, and exhilarating--an adventurous ride through the Alaskan wilderness that was profoundly life changing. Mothertrucker is the story of that bracing four-hundred-mile journey navigating snow-glazed overpasses, ice-blue curves, and near plummets. It's also the stories that led them both to Alaska--an interrogation of the reality of female fear, domestic violence, and how to overcome--and an exploration into just how galvanizing friendships between women can be.
Download or read book Driven Crazy written by Karen Greenhill and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you wanted to know about trucking but were afraid to ask. "Driven Crazy: A Female Trucker Dishes on Fun, Danger, and Quirkiness in a Semi" is about the journey from nervous rookie to seasoned pro, by a driver who just happens to be a woman. At turns poignant or hilarious, these engaging accounts describe how a young woman overcame challenges, both the physical demands of the job and the social politics of being a female trucker. Along the way readers share the ride and learn the Truisms of Trucking, little life lessons that remain long after stepping down from a truck, and find out how their narrator grows her "trucker's backbone" of courage and tenacity in the face of whatever lies around the next bend in the road.
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 Trucker Ghost Stories by : Annie Wilder
Download or read book Trucker Ghost Stories written by Annie Wilder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of firsthand accounts from truckers who have driven all over the United States and have encountered strange and unusual phenomenons which can only be described as paranormal.
Book Synopsis 18 Wheels and Women in Trucking by : Rhonda Jensen
Download or read book 18 Wheels and Women in Trucking written by Rhonda Jensen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have always enjoyed writing and have many stories about my life as an OTR driver and driving locally. I have also loved driving and that was all I ever wanted to do so I combined both. This book contains a few of my stories. Women are needed in this industry for drivers, owner operators, brokers, dispatchers, office staff, truck dealers, mechanics and even rise to the top by owning your own company. By reading my stories, I hope to inspire many women to consider entering the trucking world (men too) as there are many paths to take.
Download or read book Toots written by Donna Marie Vawdrey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toots Holzheimer, a hard working mother of eight, drove trucks for a living from the 1960's to 1990's across some of Australia's most inhospitable terrain, Cape York Peninsula. Toots delivered freight to the northern tip of Australia for over thirty years, servicing her own trucks, loading them by hand (without a forklift until the late 1980s) and then driving for days alone. Toots and her husband Ron constructed their own roads and built their own bridges, renewing them after each wet season. Without bitumen roads, Toots battled corrugation, melon holes, washouts and bull-dust. Flies and mosquitoes were her constant companions as she dug her way out of bogs or coaxed her 'Old Girl', a M.A.N. diesel truck, up and down the steep slopes of the Great Dividing Range. Nothing raised Toots' ire more quickly than someone telling her what she could or couldn't do. Attitude was what mattered to Toots, not gender. Toots attributed her success in life to her determination to 'Do what you want to do and do it well'.
Book Synopsis Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co. by : María Amparo Escandón
Download or read book Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co. written by María Amparo Escandón and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of L.A. Weather comes “a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run” (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision). “1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison . . . González and Daughter Trucking Co. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding.”—John Sayles, Screenwriter and Director Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison’s meager supply. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents himself as a trucker in the United States. There he falls in love with a wild woman with whom he shares his truck and his life—that is until Joaquín González unexpectedly finds himself alone on the road with a baby girl and González & Daughter Trucking Co. is born. Joaquín and his daughter make the cab of an 18-wheeler their home, sharing everything—adventures, books, truck-stop chow, and memories of the girl’s mother—until one day the girl grows into a woman, and a chance encounter with one man causes her to rebel against another. With her stories, Libertad enthralls a group of female prisoners every bit as eccentric as the tales she tells. In González and Daughter Trucking Co., bestselling author María Amparo Escandón seamlessly blends together these elements into one compelling and unexpected conclusion that will have you cheering for Libertad and filled with joy.
Download or read book A Trucker's Tale written by Ed Miller and published by Apollo Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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’.
Book Synopsis Bumping the Dock: A Story of God's Grace and an 18-Wheeler by : Annette F. Wilcox
Download or read book Bumping the Dock: A Story of God's Grace and an 18-Wheeler written by Annette F. Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am an unlikely person to be a long-haul trucker. People comment that I look more like a librarian or an English teacher than a trucker. And I have been both. Trucking is physically a little too hard for me. Perhaps for this reason, my life as a trucker has been one of radical dependence on God. The truck runs, after all, by grace, and I'm on the road only as long as God wants me to be. I have truly experienced that God's mercies are new every morning and are inexhaustible. He always helps! That's what this story is about.
Download or read book Woman's Work written by J. J. Burk and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Open Road, these Women Keep on Truckin' Say "trucker," and you probably don't think of someone like Ella Marie Blackford. But this sassy, savvy female truck driver is one of KDX Transport's best haulers. And she won't let the male-dominated culture of truckers get her down. Trekking hundreds of miles, it's just her, her cargo, and a close friendship with one of the rare sisters of the road-Sara Sommerfield. From the comfy perch of their cabins, they get a unique glimpse of the American landscape-and meet in diners and truck stops to discuss it all. Then a bizarre chance encounter interrupts Ella's predictable routine by putting her face to face with her thirteen-year-old cousin, Noel. The girl's bad decisions and worse relationships have led her down an unhealthy path-one that could ultimately lead to destruction. Suddenly, the cab of Ella's truck becomes a classroom for the lessons this troubled young girl never learned about life, love, and self-respect. And inside this roving behemoth is the insight that could help her get back on the right path. A realistic portrait of the challenges and triumphs of being a woman in the macho world of trucking, Woman's Work is a moving account-literally-of this unique experience. Frank, funny, and at times maddening, it's a charming story that shows girls of all ages that women's work can mean just about anything.
Download or read book Semi Queer written by Anne Balay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh realities of truckers' lives behind the wheel. A licensed commercial truck driver herself, Balay discovers that, for people routinely subjected to prejudice, hatred, and violence in their hometowns and in the job market, trucking can provide an opportunity for safety, welcome isolation, and a chance to be themselves--even as the low-wage work is fraught with tightening regulations, constant surveillance, danger, and exploitation. The narratives of minority and queer truckers underscore the working-class struggle to earn a living while preserving one's safety, dignity, and selfhood. Through the voices of drivers from marginalized communities who spend eleven- to fourteen-hour days hauling America's commodities in treacherous weather and across mountain passes, Semi Queer reveals the stark differences between the trucking industry's crushing labor practices and the perseverance of its most at-risk workers.
Book Synopsis The Truck Driver's Daughter by : Denise R. Weuve
Download or read book The Truck Driver's Daughter written by Denise R. Weuve and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tale of Two Truckers written by Rolene and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Truckers tells the story of the transition of the author from a perfectly normal life into the predominantly male operated trucking industry in the early 1980’s and the trials she endured. The story takes you back to a lifestyle and time many young people today could never imagine becasue there was little technology - not even mobile phones! The tale reveals the relentless struggles and challenges she faced along with her partner Randy, and her dog named Hooter, as they ventured forth to secure a career in the trucking industry. She fi nds herself in unimaginable and sometimes frightful predicaments, taking her readers with her into a world they never knew existed. Maintaining her sense of humor throughout the ordeal, she is not afraid to tell it like it was, something her trucker partner Randy, never would have done.
Book Synopsis Driving Women by : Diane Ruth Phillips
Download or read book Driving Women written by Diane Ruth Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigation into the work experience of a female long-haul truck driver reveals motivations and adaptive strategies utilized in a masculine-identified occupation. Participant observation gives insights into the agendas, strategies, and interpretations of work by a professional long-haul trucker. Economic need and opportunity, the mystique of the truck driver, and occupational thrills attract both women and men to the job. Many women also drive 18-wheelers to preserve a relationship with a male companion. Despite many dangers and inconveniences, many women find satisfaction in this nontraditional occupation.
