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1) Truck song
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Rhymed text and illustrations describe the journet of a transcontinental truck.
2) Buried
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Paul Conroy is not ready to die. But when he wakes up six feet underground with no idea of who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are maddeningly limited... Paul has only ninety minutes to be rescued before his worst...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
Author
Publisher
Foreword
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Chris Young is a husband, father, and convert to the Mormon Church. He is also part of a dinner club, a group of four couples who get together each Saturday night. Life has been good for Chris, but he is about to get a wake-up call he will never forget. While his wife suffers a severe crisis of faith, he struggles with his auto-transport business, the needs of his three children, a mystifying father, and the possibility that his friends may not be...
Series
Criterion collection volume 273
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Ex-G.I. Nick Garcos is a tyro trucker bent on satisfaction from the man responsible for crippling his father, a ruthless market operator by the name of Mike Figlia. Along the way, he is seduced by the siren Rica and drawn into the San Francisco produce racket, landing him in a web of treachery and heartbreak.
8) Trucker
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A female trucker finds herself having to take care of her estranged eleven-year-old son when his father is diagnosed with cancer.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Philo Beddoe, a regular easy-going, beer-drinking truck driver and the toughest barroom brawler west of the Rockies, lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. When he finally falls in love, it's with a flighty singer who leads him on a crazy chase across the Southwest.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Inspiring opera singer Prudence Budell would like to have a tenor who looks the part of the tenor role. When Johnny Donnetti, a singing truck driver is discovered, she gets her wish. A happy ending is not far away when romance blossoms between Prudence and Johnny.
11) My joy
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
A truck driver takes a wrong turn and finds himself lost in a bleak Russian underworld, struggling to survive amidst increasingly violent reminders of the country's dark history. The first fiction film by acclaimed documentarian Sergei Loznitsa, My Joy is a mischievous, ultra-nihilistic parable of post-Communist Russia, shot by master cinematographer Oleg Muto (The death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country. Following a...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Jeremy, Richard and James attempt to build a better police car with old bangers, race a Nissan GT-R against the fearsomely efficient Japanese public transport system, break down in three sub-£1,000 Alfa Romeos, invent car fox-hunting using only a Daihatsu Terios 4x4 and Jeremy as the prey, and try not to cause a diplomatic incident as they take on the German version of Top gear in a series of grueling automotive tests. The boys also find time to...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The recycling industry is still in its infancy but is growing fast with everything we buy, consume, and then throw away. This program introduces job opportunities in recycling including a profile of an electronics recycling start-up and a San Francisco municipal program to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel fuel. Job opportunities in recycling include collection, transportation, receiving and sorting, disassembly, handling hazardous materials, scheduling,...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
During NATO's bombing of Serbia in 1999, Vlada, a truck driver, is hired to undertake a treacherous path across his war-torn country and deliver mysterious cargo. On a journey where friend and foe prove indistinguishable, Vlada comes to realize the horrifying ramifications of his mission. Brilliantly photographed and intoxicatingly intimate, this film signals the arrival of a major talent.
16) Tempering Steele
Author
Publisher
History of the Saints
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The story of one man's search for the reality of God, Tempering Steele follows J. O. Steele, a modern-day prodigal son running and rebelling across the highways of America until the awesome forces of those who love and hate him bring him to his knees, barely holding onto life.
17) Tampopo
Series
Criterion collection volume 868
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
"The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe"--Container.
18) CDL commercial driver's license exam: [complete prep for the truck & bus driver's license exams]
Author
Publisher
Research & Education Assn
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
19) Convoy
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
When the Western film, for many decades the staple of the American cinema, suffered a decline in the Seventies, a new sub-species helped fill the void - the trucking epic. The great Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) directed this action classic based on the runaway hit song, Convoy. Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald (Kris Kristofferson, Vigilante Force) who, in pursuance of a feud with Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace (Ernest Borgnine, Marty), unites scores...
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