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Humor Essays

Big Rig 2

More Comic Tales from a Long Haul Trucker

by (author) Don McTavish

Publisher
Lone Pine Publishing, NeWest Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2003
Category
Essays, Personal Memoirs
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896300719
    Publish Date
    Jan 2003
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

Join McTavish and his fellow haulers as they... - hunt down and retrieve a stolen rig. - sweat bullets hauling burning boxcars and molten steel. - park a bulldozer in a living room to keep it warm. - slip, slide, and spin up and down icy inclines and muddy trails. - reveal the secrets of real trucking life in a step-by-step haul. - pass on wisdom and warnings about the ins and outs of life on the highway.

About the author

Throughout his thirtysevenyear career, there were few areas of the trucking business that Don McTavishborn storyteller and renowned joketeller was not involved in. After telling many wacky and comical anecdotes, McTavish was convinced by his friends and family to publish his stories, and has since had a regular feature in trucking trade magazine Highway Star called This Aint No Bull. McTavish was born in Calgary, Alberta, and is now retired in Vancouver, BC.

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Editorial Reviews

"...the more than two dozen stories are told with winning humour and a wonderful observant eye... [Big Rig] should appeal to anyone who likes an honest working man's story."

The Edmonton Journal