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Channel 19
Excerpting âRoll On,â a novel by Fred Afflerbach
The book is out, owner-operators. And what a book it is, telling the story, as Iâve written here, of owner-operator Ubi Sunt, an old-school âbedbuggerâ and child of the orphan trains facing down in the early 1980s an incoming rush of new faces, new ways of doing business, new pressure from his family to settle [âŚ]
April 17, 2012
Channel 19
Former operatorâs novel immortalizes trail-blazing independents
Fred Afflerbach didnât 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. âThe owner-operators would come rolling in and the drivers are telling stories and your eyes are [âŚ]
March 13, 2012
Channel 19
Let the (fuel-mileage) games begin!
When owner-operator Henry Albert proposed that he test speedâs effect on fuel mileage on his blog Feb. 22 by dropping his top speed from 65 to 60, he sparked a wellspring of commentary from his readers. At first, he marveled at all the reaction. In the end, however, itâs easily explained: simple, quantifiable results are [âŚ]
February 27, 2012
Channel 19
Salute: Writer trumpets independent truckers
Colleen Kelly Mellor (pictured) is a 30-year veteran of the classroom with near a decade in real estate. Today sheâs a writer who keeps a blog dedicated to items of âencouragement in a difficult worldâ at Biddybytes.com. Her husband was a long-haul household-moves owner-operator with Atlas Van Lines with more than a million accident-free miles [âŚ]
December 14, 2011
Channel 19
Long-haul literary: Former owner-operatorâs memoir of the life
Marc Mayfield (pictured) didnât set out to write a book when, after a lot of college â âsome of it was wasted time,â he says â and several less-than-successful, half-hearted career choices, he jumped into a job choice heâd long ago entertained as a possibility. âI really enjoyed driving big trucks,â he says, which is [âŚ]
August 20, 2011
Channel 19
Greatwide owner-operator pens one rad read in âCollinstownâ
Greatwide-leased owner-operator Bob Grantham, based in San Antonio, Texas, calls the evocative writing in his literary Western Collinstown an âunintended consequence of being a truck driver.â At least in part, anyway. Out now from Treble Heart Books, the novel follows the intertwining lives of a current and former Texas Ranger just at the outbreak of the [âŚ]
March 18, 2011
Channel 19
Novelist takes literary achievement to the truckstop
Beyond the spotlight of trucking industry news in July this year a novelist was hard at work promoting a book, her first, in which one of four main characters is a long-hauler turned local delivery driver struggling to maintain a connection to his son. Whatâs more is where the writer was promoting the novel. Making three [âŚ]
October 20, 2010
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