The Trucker's Nightmare

The Trucker's Nightmare
Author: Chris Hanly
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1644388456

The Truckers Nightmare enters a darker side of the events that take place in the trucking world. Things can change so drastically without a moments notice. The simple task of delivering a load to a customer could very quickly turn into a series of events where one could possibly be facing his own demise. The events in these stories are about the lives, hardships, and unexpected, life changing circumstances that occur, in the lonely life of a driver out on the road. The fatigue, the stress, and the insanity that can consume the very life and can even go as far as to destroy one's family are written in these pages. The long hours, unexpected break downs, delays, and time away from home, along with the lonely nights and even longer days, test the men and women, bringing them to a point, in many cases of no return. Many of them allow the insanity that consumes them to run rampant in their lives, while others become victims of circumstances, unaware of the consequences involved. Others become victims of their environment, not being able to have a say in what happens to them. The stories in this series are each written with its own unexpected story line and twists to throw the reader off.

The Trucker's Nightmare Continues: Book 2

The Trucker's Nightmare Continues: Book 2
Author: Chris Hanly
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647180392

The Trucker's Nightmare Continues will pull you into the darkest reaches of a truck driver's mind. Every experience draws you deeper into the twisted lives of those involved in this industry. This is a world where truck drivers, prostitutes, homeless people, and some of the everyday people have to face situations beyond their control. Storms, thieves, plagues, death and life all bring about unexpected and horrific results, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Many of the secrets are kept from the public's eye to keep some semblance of peace and security in this country, as the lives of those involved are drastically changed forever, or are prematurely ended. Every horrific story in this second book of the series continues to bring the reader into the secret lives of the people hidden from the rest of the world, only to be left pondering what had happened in the end. The lives of those living in the nightmare as well as the reader will be forever altered. The question of where the line of sanity and insanity in these stories have a tendency to blend into each other as each of the stories continue to grow, leaving everyone in a state of potential danger. The Trucker' Nightmare Continues will draw you deeper into the lifestyle of the men and women who keep this country running, and the dangers that they have to deal with, or bring into the world, on a day to day basis. As a result, your thinking will be altered. Some will take more caution in dealing with others, while some of you will throw caution out, challenging the trucking world to a challenge of life and death, simply to experience a small piece of the nightmare that exists out there. Either way, after reading this book, your life will be changed.

The Trucker's Nightmare Never Ends: Book 3

The Trucker's Nightmare Never Ends: Book 3
Author: Chris Hanly
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2021-10-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647196310

The Trucker's Nightmare Never Ends is the 3rd fictional book in a series involving the darker side of the trucking industry. Every story is unique in that they all are different from the other stories. Each one of them has its own unexpected twist to them, leaving the reader pondering what it was they had just read. From the fears that lurk in one's heart, including going into the dark secrets of the night, mixing things up with prostitutes, to deadly machines and into abandoned towns. Every story has its own web to weave as it draws the reader deeper into the darkest reaches of an industry that so few really can understand. Once you catch a glimpse inside, it will grab ahold of you and not let go. Even in psyching yourself up for what is written in these pages you will not be prepared for it. The stories from The Trucker's Nightmare series will stay with you for a long time. Some of them you will never forget. And your perception in how you look at our great American truck drivers may never be the same again.

The Trucker's Nightmare

The Trucker's Nightmare
Author: Chris Hanly
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781644388433

Short stories about truck drivers and the trucking industry as a whole. Each story being completely different from the others, having its own twist to it.

The Big Rig

The Big Rig
Author: Steve Viscelli
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520962710

Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.

“The Vampire Trucker”

“The Vampire Trucker”
Author: John R. Cole
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2017-10-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504947290

The Vampire Trucker was born in Berlin, Germany, in the year 1657. His identity must be changed every fifty years, as questions arise why he continues to live on, as others around him begin to die off. In todays world, he takes the role of an eighteen-wheeler truck driver. This story revolves around his life on the road, the people he comes in contact with, along with his conquests, all unbeknownst to the fact that he is a vampire among us posing and living the dream as an owner/operator truck driver. This book would not have been possible without the help of coauthor, Victoria C. Nyulassie.

Sweatshops on Wheels

Sweatshops on Wheels
Author: Michael H. Belzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780195128864

Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades. Written by a former long-haul trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University, Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.

Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares

Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares
Author: Miguel López-Lozano
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781557534842

Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies. Carlos Fuentes, Homero Aridjis, Carmen Boullosa, and Alejandro Morales utilize the literary genre of dystopian science fiction to elaborate on how globalization has resulted in the alienation of indigenous peoples and the deterioration of the ecology. This book concludes that Mexican and Chicano perspectives on the past and the future of their societies constitute a key site for the analysis of the problems of underdevelopment, social injustice, and ecological decay that plague today's world. Whereas utopian discourse was once used to justify colonization, Mexican and Chicano writers now deploy dystopian rhetoric to interrogate projects of modernization, contributing to the current debate on the global expansion of capitalism. The narratives coincide in expressing confidence in the ability of Latin American and U.S. Latino popular sectors to claim a decisive role in the implementation of enhanced measures to guarantee an ecologically sound, ethnically diverse, and just society for the future of the Americas.

Childhood Nightmares And Adult Fears

Childhood Nightmares And Adult Fears
Author: Rose Keaton
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1649522266

Childhood Nightmares and Adult Fears goes back to the beginning of not understanding what was really going on. The chilling, horrifying memory is our stepmother leaving to go find our biological mother to get us the help we needed to survive. All my life, he always told my siblings and me she was dead or in a mental home. This was an unbelievable shock, then we learned that our stepmother didn't make it to our mother. She was murdered. We didn't witness it. At the same time we learned the truth and much more. The horror of learning what I once didn't understand that our father was the perpetrator. My nightmare is a tall shadow of a man with a hat on his head carrying me naked in his arms as I sniffed and cried softly as he walks toward the bed. This tells me that something did happen. During my adulthood, my fear was always something going wrong when I allow unhealthy men into my life, and I walked into a road of destruction when I saw a sign in my mind that read "Welcome to the Fast Life." Everything that I would never do you could say it became my very own manifestation. I couldn't escape. This is my true story of how I struggled to succeed and survive my trauma never giving up on myself. 144