Fifty Shades of Tarmac: Adventures with a Mack R600 in 1970s Europe

Fifty Shades of Tarmac: Adventures with a Mack R600 in 1970s Europe
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Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781910456170
ISBN-13 : 1910456179
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fifty Shades of Tarmac: Adventures with a Mack R600 in 1970s Europe by : Andy MacLean

Download or read book Fifty Shades of Tarmac: Adventures with a Mack R600 in 1970s Europe written by Andy MacLean and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1972. It was summer - and the living was easy! Arthur Jackson has a good job, no ties and no responsibilities, but it is not enough - he wants adventure and he wants to see the world!Based on the author's real life experiences and illustrated with photographs from the time, Fifty Shades of Tarmac tells the fictional story of how a naive young British truck driver obtains his first job driving a Mack on the continent of Europe. His first trip with all its pitfalls and novel experiences takes him from Rotterdam to Bremerhaven via Moutiers and Salzburg and then back to Rotterdam. It is told with humour, introducing a number of colourful characters, and providing a personal and unusual insight into the life of a truck driver in the 70s at a time when Europe still had frontier posts and custom restrictions.It will be of interest to truck drivers, Mack fans and other transport enthusiasts and those who simply want to learn more about the social history of Europe in the 1970s.


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