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Channel 19

Former trucker’s new novel chronicles young driver’s failure

By writer Dave Newman — who spent a couple years OTR some time ago — “Two Small Birds” tells the story of Dan Charles, a would-be poet and Walt Whitman devotee on a crash course with OTR trucking.

April 3, 2014

Channel 19

A fine read in owner-operator’s ‘Hotshot Chronicles’ book on expediting

Gary Shade’s book of the expediting life and business could be an important resource for those starting out in the segment.

September 12, 2013

Life

Operator’s new book details fitness turnaround

Mike Sammons’ “Working Man’s Road to Weight Loss” details the driver’s story to losing more than half his body weight in a quest for better health.

May 30, 2013

Channel 19

‘Liberated trucker-babe’ embraces ‘inner cougar’ with new book

Meet Xandra “Sunny” Moon, author of the self-help tome that tells her story — in part about her discovery of trucking after years at home as a full-time mother — of getting over a “mid-life slump.”

May 14, 2013

Channel 19

On-highway reads: Revisiting ‘In the Driver’s Seat’

Writer and former owner-operator Marc Mayfield will be interviewed Thursday, March 7 at 7 p.m. EST on the Truth About Trucking Live online radio program.

March 6, 2013

Channel 19

‘Grandpa and the Truck’ — book 2 out now

Colleen Kelly Mellor’s children’s book series highlights true tales from her husbands 30-year career, much of it spent as a household-goods-hauling owner-operator.

November 13, 2012

Channel 19

Owner-operator Rick Ash’s health reading list

The Trucking Solutions Group of owner-operators, of which Ash is a member, is hosting an open call tomorrow, Oct. 31, at 3 p.m. Find call-in details, along with recommended health reading, in this story.

October 30, 2012

Channel 19

New book series for the kids: ‘Grandpa and the Truck’

Former independent household goods hauler’s wife Colleen Kelly Mellor’s new series of “Grandpa and the Truck” children’s books blends trucking respect with educational needs.

July 16, 2012

Channel 19

Driver for Landstar-leased fleet in Oprah magazine

Cleveland-based Shannon “Sputter” Smith (pictured, courtesy of Women in Trucking), a driver for a Landstar-leased small fleet, got into on-highway hauling as the youngest child of a father who worked on trucks for a living. As told by Jeanne Marie Laskas in Oprah magazine, her story is an inspiring one for any woman thinking of […]

June 11, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Driver health audiobook free download

The docs/publishers behind the Man in White organization are trumpeting a 30-day free trial of Audible.com’s download service that enables drivers to download the Truckers’ Road to Health audiobook free of charge (normally, it’s $23.85). I wrote about owner-operator Joe Martin’s contribution of a chapter on in-cab exercise last September, and otherwise the book features chapters put […]

May 3, 2012

Channel 19

Former operator’s novel immortalizes trail-blazing independents

Fred Afflerbach didn’t set out to launch a trucking career when he took a job working for a Bekins Van Lines-affiliated moving company in Austin, Texas, in high school in the 1970s. He caught the fever all the same. “The owner-operators would come rolling in and the drivers are telling stories and your eyes are […]

March 13, 2012

Channel 19

New book explores first cross-continent truck trip

Many of you will be familiar with the 1919 military truck convoy that traversed the United States in an effort to test the efficacy of cargo trucks on the roads, or lack thereof, of the day. A Young Dwight Eisenhower was part of the convoy, and his experience of it is oft-cited as having a […]

September 19, 2011