Big Rigs On The Go

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about what big rigs do. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! It hauls heavy cargo. It travels long distances. This big rig is on the move! What kind of cargo do big rigs carry? And how do big rig drivers talk to one another? Read this book to find out! Learn all about mighty machines in the Vroom-Vroom series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!

It hauls heavy cargo. It travels long distances. This big rig is on the move! What kind of cargo do big rigs carry? And how do big rig drivers talk to one another? Read this book to find out! Learn all about mighty machines in the Vroom-Vroom series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!

Simple text and photographs describe the types of trucks, the cargo they carry, and the parts of the truck.

Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.

Aprenda lo que es una plataforma grande y como transporta bienes por todo el país. Ahora en español, este título incluye preguntas de pensamiento crítico y un glosario de fotos para ayudar el desarollo de habilidades de aprendizaje de no ficción. Fotos agregan interés visual e involucrar a lectores jóvenes con aprenaer lo que hacen las grandes plataformas. Learn what a big rig is and how it transports goods around the country. Now in Spanish, this title features age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary to help build nonfiction learning skills. Fresh, vibrant photos add visual interest and engage young readers in learning about what big rigs do.

Ever paused to wonder how that farm-fresh produce from California or Florida lands on your table? Or how your computer...Your bed...Your living room carpet...Or even the clothes that you're wearing arrive? 50 years ago, those goods would have all moved by train. Now they move by longhaul truck. In 19 or 20 ton lots. Rolling down the highway, in trailers longer than your house. What's it like to ride sitting high in one of those Big Rigs? What's it like to roll along the highway with 20 tons of cargo pushing you down the road. Cargo that has to be delivered not today, but yesterday - or the day before? THE BIG RIG...This is what longhaul is all about.