Hauling The Loads

Author : Malcolm J. Kennedy
Publisher : Melbourne University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hauling the Loads written by Malcolm J. Kennedy and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bullocky, cursing at his team; twenty or more horses harnessed to a towering load of wool bales or wheat bags, inching their way along a dusty track: these are central, enduring images of Australia's past, immortalized by Lawson, Paterson and Furphy. Malcolm Kennedy is the first, however, to explore the essential part that beast of burden actually played in Australia's development. From the arrival of the first horses and cattle with the First Fleet, Kennedy gives a remarkable picture of Australian life. He reveals how the horse was the secret weapon used against the Aborigines. He describes the growth of that uniquely Australian livelihood -- droving. He even investigates the pollution problems of horse-powered cities: what do do you do with over 200 tons of manure every day? With exemplary and painstaking research, Malcolm Kennedy has produced a record of part of our history that is now lost.

Author : Malcolm J. Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876780630
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hauling the Loads written by Malcolm J. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bullocky, cursing at his team; twenty or more horses harnessed to a towering load of wool bales or wheat bags, inching their way along a dusty track: these are central, enduring images of Australia's past, immortalized by Lawson, Paterson and Furphy. Malcolm Kennedy is the first, however, to explore the essential part that beast of burden actually played in Australia's development. From the arrival of the first horses and cattle with the First Fleet, Kennedy gives a remarkable picture of Australian life. He reveals how the horse was the secret weapon used against the Aborigines. He describes the growth of that uniquely Australian livelihood -- droving. He even investigates the pollution problems of horse-powered cities: what do do you do with over 200 tons of manure every day? With exemplary and painstaking research, Malcolm Kennedy has produced a record of part of our history that is now lost.

Author : Finn Murphy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608727
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road written by Finn Murphy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.”—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job.

Author : Tim Blunk
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hauling Up the Morning written by Tim Blunk and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 1990 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the answer to a lie. The lie is that there are no political prisoners in the United States. The truth, as reflected in these pages, is that U.S. prisons hold almost 200 men and women jailed for their political acts. They are held because of their protests against racism, injustice, and imperialism. They come from almost every national and ethnic group. Some, like the former Black Panthers and Black Liberation Army militants, have been in jail almost as long as South Africa's Nelson Mandela before his release. Some were imprisoned for non-violent protests, some for armed action; some were out-and-out framed. All share a profound commitment to resistance, and a deep belief in humanity. Their poems and stories, articles and art works eloquently expose the human truth behind the official lie"--Africa World Press Books website.

Author : Richard Hamann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931916325
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hauling the Biggest Load written by Richard Hamann and published by . This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I got the idea to write this book several years ago and started making notes and reliving it. Every time I'd start to write, it brought back memories I wanted to forget. There were times I thought I would quit because it bothered me too much to think of some of the things that happened. None of that seems very important now compared to losing John. Things changed when we lost our son John in a car accident May 24, 2002. None of those other experiences seemed important anymore, also I needed something to try and take my mind off that tragedy. I thought I had hauled some big loads in my life but I never had to have a load as big as this one. Writing this book is what got me through. I think while reading the story of my life and my loss, a person will understand why I call it Hauling the Biggest Load. I think it is an unusual story because of the many changes have happened since my birth in 1926, probably the most in history...

Author : Frank White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550177343
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milk Spills and One-Log Loads written by Frank White and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank White started writing the story of his life as a pioneer BC truck driver in 1974 when he was only sixty. His boisterous yarn in Raincoast Chronicles about wrangling tiny trucks overloaded with huge logs down steep mountains with no brakes won the Canadian Media Club award for Best Magazine Feature and was reprinted so many times everyone urged him to write more. He started in his spare time but kept having so many new adventures he didn't finish until 2013--his hundredth year. Although Frank set out to tell the story of his life in transportation, from the horse and buggy age to trucking in the BC freighting and logging industries, Milk Spills & One-Log Loads is much more than that. Just as absorbing as his accounts of obstreperous men wrestling big timber are his memories of becoming his family's designated driver at age twelve; of his grandfather, who kept the bible on a pulpit in the living room and never passed it without stopping to preach; of the stiff-necked farmers who hitched rides to Vancouver so they could take in the sinful delights of skid row; of collisions with streetcars and tsunamis of spilled milk; of the hysteria that gripped the BC coast after Pearl Harbor; of starting married life with a family of ten pigs; and romantic interludes exploring idyllic islands and living off clams. Milk Spills & One-Log Loads has all the hair-raising road tales one could ask for, but it is a moving story of personal growth, a vivid account of life as working people lived it on Canada's west coast during the rough-and-tumble years of the early twentieth century.

Author : Michael H. Belzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195128864
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweatshops on Wheels written by Michael H. Belzer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bob Tuck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780850598278
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hauling Heavyweights written by Bob Tuck and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles E. Harris
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1403379289
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trucking Through Time written by Charles E. Harris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth Bence Reinke
Publisher : Bumba Books (R) -- Constructio
ISBN 13 : 1512433594
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dump Trucks Haul! written by Beth Bence Reinke and published by Bumba Books (R) -- Constructio. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces dump trucks and describes the jobs they do.