Big Rig 2
More Comic Tales from a Long Haul Trucker
- Publisher
- Lone Pine Publishing, NeWest Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2003
- Category
- Essays, Personal Memoirs
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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.
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