The long haul : a trucker's tales of life on the road
(2017)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
388.324092/MURPHY,F
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : W W. Norton & Company, [2017]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxiii, 229 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393608717, 0393608719
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction -- Punching in -- Road warriors -- Tenderfoot -- Hammer down -- Seven shippers -- The pot of gold -- Back on the road -- Here come the movers -- Invisible men -- Baby grand -- Waiting time -- Paradise -- The great white mover -- Epilogue
A long-haul trucker reflects on the changing realities of the working class as witnessed during journeys ranging from the I-95 Powerland and the Florida Everglades to the truck stops of the Midwest and the Rocky Mountains