Books on trucking?

Truckers reading books? Have you ever seen the "book section" in truckstops? It is typically a half-empty rotating wire-frame rack stocked with the next-to-latest crappy novels by the likes of Vince Flynn and David Baldacci, Maxim magazine, and several varieties of tattoo magazines.

 

Does the rack of trucking company brochures in every truck stop doorway count as books?

To be serious, it is an interesting idea. Idk how profitable it would be nowadays, when any would-be trucker can just hop on YouTube and learn everything from all the great know-it-all truckers on there (gag...), but it would still be cool to see. Good luck with it!

 

Funny - I'd thought the same over the years.

I think @Kyle G. has it pegged - most would be drivers can simply watch the You Tube heroes and get the basics - that along with the likes of these forums.

Being that it's so many things for so many different people, I never knew how to approach it, from the making money aspect, the paid tourist side - owner operator?

It could turn into an encyclopedia if you really got into it.

 

I'm pretty sure a few guys have written some "e-books" that can be downloaded online for a nominal cost.

Google "trucking book" and several options will come up. But I could not tell you how well or thorough any of these may be put together.

But getting many who SHOULD be interested and to seek out such a book BEFOREHAND may be an excercise in futility. Truck driving schools certainly don't want to promote a book that may be a bit "too honest" about the trade before they've received full payment.

But I agree that there's lots of things that can be discussed in a book that could save a lot of grief for newer drivers, at some point later on. However, some can only "learn" from negative personal experience, when they arrive at that teachable moment. The notion of avoiding problems with advance teaching/learning [from those who've had the experience] is lost on many.

 

Can a whole chapter please cover the horrors of Bay Area traffic?

 

I've got a bunch, maybe six I've collected through the years and a bunch of Ebooks, but it seems all of them are just the same old crap hashed over and over and over. I am reading one now that is from some YouTube clown and wonder if anyone actually takes his crap seriously.

 

Why the hell would I wanna read about trucking? I lived it for over a quarter century.
Any way...when I parked for the night I read more books than watched tv...but I like mystery novels. Write a good mystery novel, and I'll buy it...write a "trucking" book, and I'm not sure if I'd even waste my time pissing on it.
Just my two cents.

 

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