Ed Miller was born into a family of truckers in North Carolina and began driving tractor-trailers at age thirteen and moving trucks around his family’s farm or backing them into the dock at the warehouse yard. He has more than forty years of management and ownership experience in many aspects of the motor carrier industry, including flatbed, van, refrigerated, specialized, and transportation brokerage. From 2003 to 2010, he worked in the Office of Freight Logistics at Maryland’s Department of Transportation, where he served on numerous county, state, and national transportation and research advisory committees. Today he is a part-time school bus driver, working as a substitute/trip driver transporting students or taking school teams to sports events. Ed grew up in western North Carolina and attended East Carolina University before serving in the US Navy Seabees. He is a father of three and a grandfather of two, and lives with his wife in Rising Sun, Maryland.

• PrefacePart One: An EducationPart Two: Military TruckingPart Three: College TruckingPart Four: Characters Part Five: ManagementPart Six: Directions, Shippers, Strikes, and Baby Animals Part Seven: Knights of the HighwayA Note on SafetyEpilogueAcknowledgments

“A well-crafted, intimate portrait of a life lived in trucking.”—Overdrive Magazine“If there's one person who can reveal how to overcome loneliness and social distancing, while maintaining a great sense of humor, it's a long-distance trucker. Ed Miller literally wrote a book on it.”—Fox45 News, Baltimore“Hop into the cab for a view of trucking in all its glory, grease, and hilarity.”—Texas Border Business“A Trucker’s Tale is notably refreshing. . . . Over the years, I’ve spoken to any number of folks who have riding in a big rig on their bucket lists; Miller’s book is a wonderful opportunity to vicariously clear that item off your list.”—The VVA Veteran“The beauty of A Trucker’s Tale is that you can read the whole book or everyday choose just one story to transport you to another place. Some of the stories are full of laughter, while others sadness and anger, male machismo, rescuing damsels in distress (don’t know if I can use the word damsels anymore), highway consciousness, manners, bad leadership and really, really good guys.”—Arabella magazine

Ed Miller was born into a family of truckers in North Carolina and began driving tractor-trailers at age thirteen and moving trucks around his family’s farm or backing them into the dock at the warehouse yard. He has more than forty years of management and ownership experience in many aspects of the motor carrier industry, including flatbed, van, refrigerated, specialized, and transportation brokerage. From 2003 to 2010, he worked in the Office of Freight Logistics at Maryland’s Department of Transportation, where he served on numerous county, state, and national transportation and research advisory committees. Today he is a part-time school bus driver, working as a substitute/trip driver transporting students or taking school teams to sports events. Ed grew up in western North Carolina and attended East Carolina University before serving in the US Navy Seabees. He is a father of three and a grandfather of two, and lives with his wife in Rising Sun, Maryland.

• PrefacePart One: An EducationPart Two: Military TruckingPart Three: College TruckingPart Four: Characters Part Five: ManagementPart Six: Directions, Shippers, Strikes, and Baby Animals Part Seven: Knights of the HighwayA Note on SafetyEpilogueAcknowledgments

“A well-crafted, intimate portrait of a life lived in trucking.”—Overdrive Magazine“If there's one person who can reveal how to overcome loneliness and social distancing, while maintaining a great sense of humor, it's a long-distance trucker. Ed Miller literally wrote a book on it.”—Fox45 News, Baltimore“Hop into the cab for a view of trucking in all its glory, grease, and hilarity.”—Texas Border Business“A Trucker’s Tale is notably refreshing. . . . Over the years, I’ve spoken to any number of folks who have riding in a big rig on their bucket lists; Miller’s book is a wonderful opportunity to vicariously clear that item off your list.”—The VVA Veteran“The beauty of A Trucker’s Tale is that you can read the whole book or everyday choose just one story to transport you to another place. Some of the stories are full of laughter, while others sadness and anger, male machismo, rescuing damsels in distress (don’t know if I can use the word damsels anymore), highway consciousness, manners, bad leadership and really, really good guys.”—Arabella magazine

Ed Miller was born into a family of truckers in North Carolina and began driving tractor-trailers at age thirteen and moving trucks around his family’s farm or backing them into the dock at the warehouse yard. He has more than forty years of management and ownership experience in many aspects of the motor carrier industry, including flatbed, van, refrigerated, specialized, and transportation brokerage. From 2003 to 2010, he worked in the Office of Freight Logistics at Maryland’s Department of Transportation, where he served on numerous county, state, and national transportation and research advisory committees. Today he is a part-time school bus driver, working as a substitute/trip driver transporting students or taking school teams to sports events. Ed grew up in western North Carolina and attended East Carolina University before serving in the US Navy Seabees. He is a father of three and a grandfather of two, and lives with his wife in Rising Sun, Maryland.

• PrefacePart One: An EducationPart Two: Military TruckingPart Three: College TruckingPart Four: Characters Part Five: ManagementPart Six: Directions, Shippers, Strikes, and Baby Animals Part Seven: Knights of the HighwayA Note on SafetyEpilogueAcknowledgments

“A well-crafted, intimate portrait of a life lived in trucking.”—Overdrive Magazine“If there's one person who can reveal how to overcome loneliness and social distancing, while maintaining a great sense of humor, it's a long-distance trucker. Ed Miller literally wrote a book on it.”—Fox45 News, Baltimore“Hop into the cab for a view of trucking in all its glory, grease, and hilarity.”—Texas Border Business“A Trucker’s Tale is notably refreshing. . . . Over the years, I’ve spoken to any number of folks who have riding in a big rig on their bucket lists; Miller’s book is a wonderful opportunity to vicariously clear that item off your list.”—The VVA Veteran“The beauty of A Trucker’s Tale is that you can read the whole book or everyday choose just one story to transport you to another place. Some of the stories are full of laughter, while others sadness and anger, male machismo, rescuing damsels in distress (don’t know if I can use the word damsels anymore), highway consciousness, manners, bad leadership and really, really good guys.”—Arabella magazine