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"They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road. He shares what it was like to grow up in a trucking family, his experience as an equipment officer in Vietnam, and the trials and tribulations of life as a trucker. His tales are often funny, sometimes sad, cringeworthy, or unbelievable. Many are the results of what he calls, 'just plain stupidity.' Together they paint a compelling portrait of a vibrant but little-known industry, and reveal why he just kept on truckin'"--Page 4 of cover
Table des matières
Preface
Part One: An Education
Part Two: Military TruckingPart Three: College Trucking
Part Four: Characters Part Five: Management
Part Six: Directions, Shippers, Strikes, and Baby Animals
Part Seven: Knights of the Highway
A Note on SafetyEpilogueAcknowledgments
A propos de l'auteur
Ed Miller was born into a family of truckers in North Carolina and began driving tractor-trailers at age thirteen and moving trucks around his family’s farm or backing them into the dock at the warehouse yard. He has more than forty years of management and ownership experience in many aspects of the motor carrier industry, including flatbed, van, refrigerated, specialized, and transportation brokerage. From 2003 to 2010, he worked in the Office of Freight Logistics at Maryland’s Department of Transportation, where he served on numerous county, state, and national transportation and research advisory committees. Today he is a part-time school bus driver, working as a substitute/trip driver transporting students or taking school teams to sports events. Ed grew up in western North Carolina and attended East Carolina University before serving in the US Navy Seabees. He is a father of three and a grandfather of two, and lives with his wife in Rising Sun, Maryland.
Résumé
Wit, wisdom, and revelations from sixty years of life on the road.
Préface
- National TV, radio, print, podcast, and long-lead publicity campaign targeting:
- Late night television to highlight author's humor and down-to-earth persona
- Talk radio, with a focus on rural, conservative, and other outlets with high trucker listenership
- Outlets that feature long-form & excerpts such as Huffington Post and Esquire.
- Niche and trade media including American Trucker, Overdrive, and FleetOwner.
- Enthusiast media including Truck Yeah!, Trucking', and Truck Trend.
- GoodReads review campaign.
- Appearances with fellow Apollo author Jason Torchinsky (Robot, Take the Wheel: Winter, 2019).
- Signing possible at ALA.
- Speaking arrangements, book signings, and local marketing during 2019-2020 truck show season.
- Advertising in auto/truck parts publications to support special sales into Napa, Pep Boys, O'Reilly, etc.
- Full Apollo Program advertising support (social, digital, and print).
Texte suppl.
“A well-crafted, intimate portrait of a life lived in trucking.”
—Overdrive Magazine
“If there's one person who can reveal how to overcome loneliness and social distancing, while maintaining a great sense of humor, it's a long-distance trucker. Ed Miller literally wrote a book on it.”
—Fox45 News, Baltimore
“Hop into the cab for a view of trucking in all its glory, grease, and hilarity.”
—Texas Border Business
“A Trucker’s Tale is notably refreshing. . . . Over the years, I’ve spoken to any number of folks who have riding in a big rig on their bucket lists; Miller’s book is a wonderful opportunity to vicariously clear that item off your list.”
—The VVA Veteran
“The beauty of A Trucker’s Tale is that you can read the whole book or everyday choose just one story to transport you to another place. Some of the stories are full of laughter, while others sadness and anger, male machismo, rescuing damsels in distress (don’t know if I can use the word damsels anymore), highway consciousness, manners, bad leadership and really, really good guys.”
—Arabella magazine
