truck drivers

Introduces the work truck drivers do, the kinds of vehicles they drive, the training they need, and people who help them.

C.J. Bulloch grows up steeped in the legends his father tells when he comes home after a long day behind the wheel, but the tale of a ghost trucker is more than C.J. can handle.

Explains how people learn to drive trucks, and looks at the tasks and equipment involved in the job.

Jo, abandoned by her mother shortly after her birth, is raised in the United Kingdom by her truck-driving father Bobby, a man given to bouts of depression, and her life becomes more complicated when, as a young teen, she becomes obsessed with Cosima, a rising country music star from the U.S.

A boy imagines what it would be like to drive a big rig across the country.

Follows a truck driver through his day as he communicates with the dispatcher, inspects and loads his truck for a cross-country trip, talks on the CB radio, and makes rest stops.

Photographs and text present a driver's-eye-view of operating an eighteen-wheeler, combine, train, blimp, front-end loader, Concorde jet, crane, race car, tank and other vehicles.

Martha happily starts a cross-country journey as a trucker delivering books.

Photographs and easy-to-read text describe the job of a truck driver.

Sam drives a mighty tractor trailer with a bulldozer on top to a busy construction site where workers will build a new home.