Eastbounders: Two Women Trucking Through The Barriers - Paperback

by Jill Shearer (Author)

In Michigan there were two teachers who wanted to travel the United States. They went to Los Angeles to truck driving school in 1973, found a job driving a semi-truck to Philadelphia. They soon realized they didn't have enough skills and training to do this feat. This is a hilarious story of their difficulties, struggles, and SUCCESS.

Author Biography

The part of my biography I'm writing about, was a life changing event. I was teaching school in Michigan. I wanted to travel the USA. While talking to another women teacher, we realized we both had adventurous spirits and wanted to travel rather than teach. We decided truck driving would be the best way to do this. We could travel the whole country and be payed for doing the job. We quit teaching school and drove to Los Angeles to attend truck driving school. On our first driving job, I was awakened to the fact that this school hadn't come close to preparing me for what was ahead in my life. I learned trucking as I worked. It was frightening, fun, intimidating, humorous, and I couldn't wait to see what was coming next. It was difficult for me to connect to the way the world viewed me as a truck driver, as apposed to the way they had viewed me as a teacher. I was the same person, but wasn't treated the same as when I was a teacher. I soon became adapted to my new role in life and enjoyed it more than I thought I would.