Wit, wisdom, and revelations from sixty years of life on the road. Driving one highway after another at sunrise, winding through the mountainside, hearing the call to rise of the roosters, or simply exchanging "fishing stories" with the other guys at the truck stops. Like that one about the trucker who stopped along the highway and helped a ......
In this compendium, Lee Friedlander (born 1934) examines the ordinary pickup truck, a quintessentially American mode of transportation. Unadorned in form as well as function, pickups have long been the vehicle of choice for farmers and tradespeople. Their well-worn beds—usually open to the elements, laid bare for all to see—have held and hauled ......
Carousel Calendars offer a hugely diverse range of square wall calendars which feature amazing photography and large month-to-view grids with plenty of space for writing.
Carousel Calendars offer a hugely diverse range of square wall calendars which feature amazing photography and large month-to-view grids with plenty of space for writing.
The Silk Road and Beyond covers the career, adventures and anecdotes of Ivor Whittall, one of the early pioneers of long distance trucking to the Middle East. Written in an engaging style, the book encompasses stories from the beginning of Ivors career, from qualifying as an articulated-truck driver, his first overseas trip to Kuwait, the ......
From roasts to rissoles, salads to savouries and dampers to deserts, The Caravan & Campervan Cookbook will help bring a tempting new twist to your travel cooking.
The result of 7 years travel and research by a single author, Australia Free 3 is the latest edition of Australia’s best guide on fun travel in Australia on a budget. Other books simply show you where to rest up or camp: fully half of Australia Free’s content is actually about making the best use of your time once you get there.
The truckers job-so vital to our nations everyday life-makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories. This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more inspiring than fiction. The unlikely yarns and ......
Welcome to life on four wheels. Hit the open road with this practical and inspiring guide. In the first half, youll discover how to choose and customise your perfect van, and get it fitted for sleeping, cooking and storage. In part two, well tell you how to stay safe, save money and park legally, then share the best road trips around the world, ......
1001 Road Trips You Must Experience Before You Die is the perfect guide to the worlds most breathtaking drives. The wide-ranging, carefully chosen featured road trips vary in length and severity, from an epic tour on Irelands Wild Atlantic Way to a short blast around Monacos famous F1 street circuit. The hand-picked drives cover mountain ......
An annual publication linked to the monthly Buses Magazine and published every year since the early 1960s. Edited by Stewart J Brown, this latest edition includes a tried and tested mix of articles and photo-features, both historic and contemporary, covering a wide range of subjects of road transport interest.
The Camper Book will captivate all those who dream of waving good-bye to the rat race from the window of their own moveable home, be it a camper, RV, travel trailer, camper van, or tiny camper. Not just for placid retirees anymore, camper culture has sprung up among simplicity-seeking millennials, retro-loving “glampers,” sports and ......
A number of books have chronicled the history and vehicles of the Bristol Omnibus Co. It was one of the largest and greatest of British bus operators and ...with a nod in the direction of Midland Red... unique in that, as well as operating buses, it also constructed them and supplied them to the entire industry. This book is a little different. ......
Dedicated to the VW camper, a cult classic, celebrating its many guises, in all their glory.
The VW camper van has been a cult classic for decades and has a broad fanbase all around the world. But Norbert Nettekoven is not interested in immaculately restored collectors pieces, he is looking for the maddest and ......
Dissatisfied with the reliability of its AEC Merlin and Swift single-deck buses, London Transport in 1973 purchased six Leyland Nationals for evaluation. Liking what it saw of this ultimate standard product, where even the paint swatch was of Leyland s choice, LT took up an option to buy fifty more from a cancelled export order and then bought ......
LONDONS FAMOUS RT-TYPE BUSES were an iconic symbol of our Capital city in the 1950s, before being superseded by the Routemasters. Most were built between 1947 and 1954 to replace worn-out pre-war and wartime buses, as well as our remaining trams. More than 7,000 were built in all and although London Transport favoured A.E.C. chassis, which the ......
Beginning with the development of the first Ford tractors in 1917 and finishing in 1991 with the purchase of the Ford tractor brand by New Holland, this is one of the few books to tell the complete story of Ford and Fordson tractors. The author covers the parallel development of Fordson tractors, made at Dagenham in Essex, with Ford tractors in ......
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