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Roll On: A Trucker's Life on the Road By: Fred Afflerbach

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Academy Chicago Publishers, July 2012

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Ubi Sunt, a long-haul trucker driving an aging Peterbilt named Old Ironsides, has spent his life trying to balance the difficulties and stresses of a family life with the isolating yet magnetic draw of living on the road. While Ubi thinks he has successfully maintained this juggling act over the last three decades, his daughter only has deep-seated memories of missed birthdays, holidays, and graduations. As her children begin to reach the age of soccer games and school plays, she finally tells her father that if he wants a relationship with his grandchildren, he'd better settle down--drive local and be home--or forget it. Anxious to see the only family he has left after the death of his wife, but not quite ready to drop anchor and retire, Ubi decides to hop in his truck and head East. As he makes his way from the palm trees and beaches of sunny California to the narrow brick roads and fast-paced city life of Philadelphia, he notices dramatic changes in the American landscape: jammed toll roads lined with fast-food restaurants and hotel chains; a younger generation of truckers hurrying past like packs of wolves with their twin-turbo six-hundred-horsepower diesel engines, only thinking of the next buck and never learning the 'code of the road.' Additionally, the family-owned company he has worked at for over thirty years has been broken up by investors and their network of warehouses, and replaced by cheap rental yards and portable offices in industrial parks, threatening his job safety. Ubi's transcontinental trip across the Painted Desert, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and lush landscapes of Minnesota, through America's breadbasket into the gritty Northeast, allows the reader to view this country from the standpoint of an old-school long-haul trucker via his spy glass: the windshield of a big rig.

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