The Best Australian Trucking Stories

✍ Scribed by Name, Jim Haynes; (editor)

• Book ID: 109191889
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781742376943

✦ Synopsis

A collection of true stories taken from the lives of trucking men and women from Tarcutta to Alice Springs and all over Australia.

The trucker's job-so vital to our nation's everyday life-makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories.

This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more inspiring than fiction. The unlikely yarns and tales, collected by Jim Haynes, quickly transport the reader into the intriguing but often hard and lonely world of the long-distance truck driver.

There are stories of endurance while crossing the Nullarbor in the early 1950s, of rescuing mates stranded in the desert and dumping wheat in protest at Parliament House, of repossessing vehicles in suburban Adelaide, and of men imprisoned during the long political battle to make the roads of Australia free to carry freight. Steeped in larrikinism, these are...