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“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.
Eighteen wheels, four rough hands, and two big...stick-shifts.These two hard-driving, filthy-talking truckers are ready to ride all night.And one sassy sorority girl is about to find out they've got more than just a big rig for her to ride... The two of us? We've seen our share of hell. But after we left the Marines, all we wanted was our big rig truck, our own rules, and the freedom of the open road.But when we see her - a pretty little thing in daisy dukes and cowgirl boots at the roughest truck stop around, there ain't no way we're not stepping in when trouble comes knocking.Blonde, blue-eyed, and oozing innocence and temptation. Sierra McCree comes crashing into our world with trouble on her heels. She's more than we ever bargained for - and more than we ever thought two roughnecks like us would ever find. And once we've got the teasing little sorority girl on our rig, she's gonna be in it for the long haul.Two big hard men like us should stay away from a flirty little tease like Sierra. Especially with the truck full of contraband we're hauling for some very not nice people. But one teasing glimpse of her soft curves, and one taste of that bratty mouth, and we're both addicted - obsessed, and driven to make her ours.Cause the two of us? Well we share everything. Including her.And out here?Well, it ain't just the road that's long and hard...Let's be blunt: if two rough, wild, completely over-the-top growly alpha heroes stopping at nothing to claim their heroine isn't your cup of tea, you probably want to give this book a pass. But if it is your thing?....well then, you're in for a treat ;). Buckle up, get those motors running, and get ready for one wild ride. This mfm romance is all about her - no m/m. As with all my books, this standalone novella is safe, with no cheating, and a HEA guaranteed.
Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial interests. Hamilton challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. The roots of rural conservatism, Hamilton demonstrates, took hold long before the culture wars and free-market fanaticism of the 1990s. As Hamilton shows, truckers helped build an economic order that brought low-priced consumer goods to a greater number of Americans. They piloted the big rigs that linked America's factory farms and agribusiness food processors to suburban supermarkets across the country. Trucking Country is the gripping account of truckers whose support of post-New Deal free enterprise was so virulent that it sparked violent highway blockades in the 1970s. It's the story of "bandit" drivers who inspired country songwriters and Hollywood filmmakers to celebrate the "last American cowboy," and of ordinary blue-collar workers who helped make possible the deregulatory policies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and set the stage for Wal-Mart to become America's most powerful corporation in today's low-price, low-wage economy. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
A legendary semi-truck named Petee' begins to think he's too old for his job after a recent breakdown on the road. Mr. McClainey surprises all the trucks at Shamrock Lucking Trucking Company in Truckington, Ohio, with a brand-new, state-of-the-art semi-truck named Vahnders. Vahnders thinks he can do everything better and faster than all the other trucks at Shamrock Lucking Trucking Company. Mr. McClainey sends Vahnders on his first run to deliver some very important freight that has a deadline. Mr. McClainey then calls the scrap yard to have some old junk scrap metal hauled away. Petee' overhears the phone conversation, thinking he's been replaced by Vahnders. Petee' gets hauled away by Scrappy to the scrap yard. Petee' leaves behind his Qualcomm computer (a messaging system with built-in GPS, which is tied into the truck's computer) with a message that he's gone on a big adventure, not ever returning. Vahnders is stranded on top of Big Bear Mountain in a blizzard. Mr. McClainey decides to send Kenny to help Vahnders, but he too gets stranded in the blizzard up in the mountains after an avalanche. All the trucks of Shamrock Lucky Trucking Company must find Petee' to rescue Vahnders and Kenny. He's the only truck that can save them and help get the important freight delivered on time to save the Shamrock Lucky Trucking Company from going bankrupt.
This is a chronicle of trucking in the Silver State begins with the Teamsters of the late 1800s and follows the transportation trail as it progressed from bullwhacker to throttle jockey. It provides an insight into the building of Nevada-based trucking companies and is a narrative of early trucking The book will place the reader in the cab of a trucking time machine that covers over a hundred and fifty years of Nevada’s transportation industry.
This book draws upon ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States to demonstrate the means through which long-haul truck drivers navigate work and family tensions in ways that resonate across categories of race, class, gender and religion. It examines how Christianity and constructions of masculinity are significant in the lives of long-haul drivers and how truckers work to construct narratives of their lives as ‘good, moral’ individuals in contrast to competing cultural narratives which suggest images of romantic, rule-free, renegade lives on the open road. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, observations of long-haul truckers, and participation in a CDL school, this rich ethnography highlights how Christian trucking opportunities provide avenues through which balance is struck between work and family, masculinity and other identities. Embedded in larger social discourse about the meaning of masculinity and similar to evangelical perspectives such as those of the Promise Keepers, Christian truckers often draw upon older ideas about responsible, breadwinning fatherhood in their discourse about being good “fathers” while on the road. This discourse is in some conflict with the lived experiences of Christian truckers who simultaneously find themselves confronted by more contemporary cultural narratives of “the work-family balance” and expectations of what it means to be a good “worker” or a good “trucker.” The book offers new insight in the field of work and family studies and an extremely relevant voice in the broader contemporary discourse in the United States on the meaning of fatherhood and religion in the 21st century.
In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as they named themselves, grew into one of the best and most consequential rock bands of the twenty-first century, a great live act whose songs deliver the truth and nuance rarely bestowed on Southerners, so often reduced to stereotypes. Where the Devil Don’t Stay tells the band’s unlikely story not chronologically but geographically. Seeing the Truckers’ albums as roadmaps through a landscape that is half-real, half-imagined, their fellow Southerner Stephen Deusner travels to the places the band’s members have lived in and written about. Tracking the band from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Richmond, Virginia, to the author’s hometown in McNairy County, Tennessee, Deusner explores the Truckers’ complex relationship to the South and the issues of class, race, history, and religion that run through their music. Drawing on new interviews with past and present band members, including Jason Isbell, Where the Devil Don’t Stay is more than the story of a great American band; it’s a reflection on the power of music and how it can frame and shape a larger culture.
THE STORY DIGEST This Book contains many different stories including * Women Advice for Men * Opinions about topics such as Religion, Politics, Society * Marriage and Relationships * Understanding Truck Driving; A guide for motorists * Trucking Stories * Hollywood Stories * Celebrities I Met--Robert Urich, Kevin Bacon, Chuck Norris, Danny Glover, Mel Gibson, Tobey McGuire (Las Vegas, World Series of Poker), Phil Helmuth, Charlie Sheen, Emelio Estevez, and more..Movies, TV Shows, Writing * Business Ideas * Making Money * Moments in Youth Stories * Ghost Hauntings Stories * Terrifying Dreams * Treasure Hunting in Florida * Texas Holdem Poker in Las Vegas and California * And wonderful cooking recipes. A wide variety of topics sure to be of interest. Written by S.L.Miller A(c) 2007 S.L.Miller All Rights Reserved