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Based on my own real life experiences in the early 1970’s, the book tells the story of Arthur Jackson, a naïve young car transporter driver whose dream is to join the British ‘kings of the road’ who ply their trade right across the continent of Europe and down to the Middle East.
He obtains work with the London branch of an Iranian company and for the first time has to learn how to handle a Mack juggernaut with a two stick quadruplex gearbox!
The story covers his first trip with all its’ pitfalls and novel experiences and takes him from Rotterdam Holland, to Bremerhaven Germany, via Moutiers in the French Alps and Salzburg Austria before ending back In 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 70’s at a time when Europe still had frontier posts and customs restrictions.
It will be of interest to truck drivers, Mack fans and other transport enthusiasts and to those who simply want to learn more about the social history of Europe at that time.
An excellent read, chaps! I can warmly recommend it. Robert 
