Trucker Tales - Fifty Years of Trucking
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00A1V6BJC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 364 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Learn about the "Flathead Ford to the Long Nose Pete" in a Fun and Hilarious Way Lorraine Strieby Since I just had a ride in a new orange Peterbilt for the Peterbilt Customer Appreciation Day, Nov 7, 2013 and I am thecreator of the board game WannaBtruckers I wanted to read a book about trucking to learn more about truckingso I can better relate to my customers. This book was hilarious and educational at the same time. I haven'tfinished it yet but can't wait for this evening when I have time. The ordinary driver out there does not knowwhat the good . S. Jones said Ted's Big adventure. Entertaining and interesting reading. From truck driver, to Mack and Western Star truck salesman, to fleet owner, Ted has done it all.I am very pleased I found this book. My pc kindle reader wouldnt open the illustrations that come with this book, which is a shame, but otherwise no disappointments here. Great read.
Ted say’s he’s made a fortune spent a couple.. Several years later he started with Mainland Mack in Langley selling new and used trucks. In 1963 he was driving molten metal truck for Alcan at Kitimat when they asked him to go to UBC to attend a “teach the teachers” course. At age eighteen when no one would hire him as a driver because he had no experience he talked his Mother into co-signing a loan, traded his almost new Chevy Bel Air for a “Big Job” Ford and went trucking. When he returned he taught an equipment operators course for five years while operating a log-hauling outfit in his spare time. Since then he’s hauled lumber, gravel, logs, delivered new trucks from the factory even had two rigs on the Rogers Pass on opening day. When it comes to trucking Ted Campbell has “been there – done that” He’s driven almost every truck, engine and transmission combination and carried every load imaginable. He loves second hand trucks; “you can’t custom build a used truck” Ted and his wife Ann have owned several truck lines, Cascadia Motor Express and Pure Water Transport were the latest; they carried spring water in stainless steel tankers, liquid sugar to honey-bee producers in the western provinces and North West Territories, ran a general