The Hotshot Chronicles
Expediting Life @ 100 km/hour
gary shade
"The Highs Are Really High and The Lows Are Really Low"
A highly entertaining, insightful and inspiring look into a true story of life on the road that one experiences while running a single truck owner/operator expediting trucking business.
Gary and Barb, a married couple and “hotshot” driving team, travel across the North American continent in their expediting freight truck, sometimes hauling military cargo while at other times they will carry a load of custom-built chairs to a ski resort in Canada.
The Hotshot Chronicles is a two-part book including their detailed and often humorous travel logs, plus a fact filled, hands-on account about how to get started in the expediting trucking business.
Expediting Life @ 100 km/hour
gary shade
"The Highs Are Really High and The Lows Are Really Low"
A highly entertaining, insightful and inspiring look into a true story of life on the road that one experiences while running a single truck owner/operator expediting trucking business.
Gary and Barb, a married couple and “hotshot” driving team, travel across the North American continent in their expediting freight truck, sometimes hauling military cargo while at other times they will carry a load of custom-built chairs to a ski resort in Canada.
The Hotshot Chronicles is a two-part book including their detailed and often humorous travel logs, plus a fact filled, hands-on account about how to get started in the expediting trucking business.
- You don’t need to be a trucker to enjoy this book, but you might become one after you’re finished reading it
- First insider book written about the "emergency freight business"
- Over one hundred color pictures taken while traveling the highways and byways of North America
- Real insights into how a successful owner/operator expediting team run their business
- An absolute must-read for truckers thinking of a career in the expediting freight industry
- Finally, a book about a woman’s experience and perspective as a team driver hauling some of the most dangerous cargo throughout North America
- Get insights into the secret world of running loads for the Department Of Defense
- A delightful read with drama, adventure, danger, humor, and full of interesting stuff that ordinary folks do for a living
- A revealing peek into the business practices kept under wraps by those who manage and run the expediting business
- Great hands-on advice about getting started in the emergency freight business
- One of the best recruitment and retention tools to come into this industry in a decade
Praise for The Hotshot Chronicles:
“Ice Road Truckers meets the Kardashians. This is the inner circle. The hotshots do the serious expediting for the sensitive and dangerous materials in motion across this great land. Not only do we readers get to hear about the challenges of just in time delivery, but the conflicts between the hotshots and the desk jockeys at the home office, which makes for great drama! I feel very lucky to be one of the few who has gotten to read the installments as they were written.”
—David Nevins, Entrpreneur, Book Club Member
"This was cool to read and I enjoyed it. You two make a good team. I live vicariously through your Book Club and enjoy the adventures, out-of-the-way places you visit and the trials and challenges of your profession. Keep 'em coming – I am in your fan club."
—Pastor Lou Best, Colonel, USA (Retired), www.hillcountrypca.org, Book Club Member
“Ice Road Truckers meets the Kardashians. This is the inner circle. The hotshots do the serious expediting for the sensitive and dangerous materials in motion across this great land. Not only do we readers get to hear about the challenges of just in time delivery, but the conflicts between the hotshots and the desk jockeys at the home office, which makes for great drama! I feel very lucky to be one of the few who has gotten to read the installments as they were written.”
—David Nevins, Entrpreneur, Book Club Member
"This was cool to read and I enjoyed it. You two make a good team. I live vicariously through your Book Club and enjoy the adventures, out-of-the-way places you visit and the trials and challenges of your profession. Keep 'em coming – I am in your fan club."
—Pastor Lou Best, Colonel, USA (Retired), www.hillcountrypca.org, Book Club Member
© Gary Shade 2012
