I Drive a Semitruck
Author | : Sarah Bridges |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404806160 |
Explains what happens when you drive a semitruck.
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Author | : Sarah Bridges |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404806160 |
Explains what happens when you drive a semitruck.
Author | : Steve Viscelli |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520962710 |
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.
Author | : Finn Murphy |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2017-06-06 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0393608727 |
“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.
Author | : U.S. Department of Transportation |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-06-03 |
Genre | : House & Home |
ISBN | : 1626363765 |
Does the identification number 60 indicate a toxic substance or a flammable solid, in the molten state at an elevated temperature? Does the identification number 1035 indicate ethane or butane? What is the difference between natural gas transmission pipelines and natural gas distribution pipelines? If you came upon an overturned truck on the highway that was leaking, would you be able to identify if it was hazardous and know what steps to take? Questions like these and more are answered in the Emergency Response Guidebook. Learn how to identify symbols for and vehicles carrying toxic, flammable, explosive, radioactive, or otherwise harmful substances and how to respond once an incident involving those substances has been identified. Always be prepared in situations that are unfamiliar and dangerous and know how to rectify them. Keeping this guide around at all times will ensure that, if you were to come upon a transportation situation involving hazardous substances or dangerous goods, you will be able to help keep others and yourself out of danger. With color-coded pages for quick and easy reference, this is the official manual used by first responders in the United States and Canada for transportation incidents involving dangerous goods or hazardous materials.
Author | : David Friend |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0399169563 |
A little boy has a grand time pretending to drive every big vehicle he can imagine.
Author | : Mike Byrnes & Associates |
Publisher | : Mike Byrnes & Associates, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780962168765 |
Textbook for tractor semitrailer operations: fourth edition includes current information on hours of service, hazardous materials, cargo securement, in-cab technology; trucking industry history; U.S. regulations; procedures; descriptions of systems, components, use/maintenance requirements; troubleshooting; safe driving; economy driving; regulated activities. Includnes end-of-chapter tests, Observation Skills Tests, illustrations, index
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0309392527 |
There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might have involved fatigued drivers. The stresses associated with their particular jobs (irregular schedules, etc.) and the lifestyle that many truck and bus drivers lead, puts them at substantial risk for insufficient sleep and for developing short- and long-term health problems. Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health and Highway Safety assesses the state of knowledge about the relationship of such factors as hours of driving, hours on duty, and periods of rest to the fatigue experienced by truck and bus drivers while driving and the implications for the safe operation of their vehicles. This report evaluates the relationship of these factors to drivers' health over the longer term, and identifies improvements in data and research methods that can lead to better understanding in both areas.
Author | : Ole R. Cram |
Publisher | : Wavecloud Corporation |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781622176052 |
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.