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by Jerry Aaron

$45 · Offered by eBay

softcover by longtime Reno/Sparks resident, trucker, historian, photographer. Filled with both historic and modern photographs, an affectionate, detailed book about trucking and truck drivers in Nevada and California. Climb behind the wheel and ride with those who trucked over US 40 and the infamous Donner Pass during the 1930s and on, into the day of modern trucking along Interstate 80. It was a time before Engine Brakes, Air-conditioners, Air Ride Seats, CBs, Cell Phones or Computers to tell how to drive. Trucking was tough and so were the truckers. Ride along with young Jerry Aaron as he makes one mistake after another, while he tries to get a grip on the wheel. Meet the people who helped him get into the driver's seat and later into the Gypo side of trucking. You'll meet the first woman trucker to run the "Hill" when it was a man's game, and experience the trials and tribulations of her family as it battles government rules and regulations to keep its small trucking company alive. Come along and play the trucking game between a driver and the California Highway Patrol. The author's life and death experiences provide insight as to how dangerous a trucker's life can be. Within these pages you'll find the history of how Donner Pass was chosen as the primary crossing point over the Sierra Nevada. This book will take readers on a true-to-life journey into the trucking world of the past-through text, interviews and photographs, many of them historic pictures from the old days.

• Publisher: Walsworth Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781882943685
• Condition: Very Good

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