This updated manual prepares professional and prospective tractor-trailer drivers for the test that applicants must pass in order to receive a Commercial Driver’s License. The test, administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation, is required in all 50 states. Comprehensive coverage of both the written and driving tests is presented with specific answers and explanations for all questions …
Don’t Die in a Car: Simple tips for staying out of automobile accidents
Don’t Die In a Car – Simple tips for staying out of automobile accidents covers over thirty commonly encountered dangerous driving situations, and gives strategies on how to handle them. Short chapters with abundant illustrations explain each scenario and strategy in concise terms. The book is especially well suited for beginning drivers, but provides information that …
Driver Ed 102 in Your Pocket: Remarkably useful advice for both novice & experienced drivers
If you ever wanted to learn more than offered from your Driver Education course, then buy this book. In a compact package, it provides practical and useful driving advice that can be applied every day. Categorized into sensible topics, the advice spans: speeding up & slowing down, space & changing lanes, highways & road conditions, awareness & anticipation, …
110 CAR AND DRIVING EMERGENCIES offers quick, why-didn’t-I-think-of-that answers to any problem a driver will possibly face, whether it’s mechanical, electrical, weather, or an on-the-road hazard. Here is the first how-to book that shows how to calmly deal with minor problems or major hazards, in the driveway or garage or on the road far from home.James Joseph, …
Truckload Carrier Association’s Daily Dispatch Challenge Training Guide
This instructional guidebook can provide virtually anyone who communicates with drivers in the trucking industry with the management skill set they need for on-the-job success! TCA’s Daily Dispatch Challenge Training Guide is the perfect leader’s supplement wherever the Daily Dispatch Challenge (DDC) CD-ROM is being utilized within a fleet manager training program. It may also be used …
This handbook of transportation industry rules and regulations will arm professional drivers with the knowledge they need to avoid penalties and infractions when driving coast-to-coast and state-to-state. Trucking Rules and Regulations: A Reference Guide to Transportation teaches variations in interstate laws for the education and preparation of drivers for over-the-road duty. It is written in a …
Driving With Confidence: A Practical Guide to Driving With Low Vision
Millions of people all over the world face the grim prospect of losing their driving privileges, their mobility, and to a great extent their freedom, due to a deterioration in their eyesight or a disabling eye disease. The message of this handbook is simple: in many cases, people with low vision can and do receive, retain and safely …
Edition 1.2 comprises the same 2000 edition main book (with new jacket), now shrink-wrapped with a 24pp Peripherals Update Supplement for 2005. This main book, itself based around the sell-out two editions of THE LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE, was hailed by the US magazine Four Wheeler as “.. one of the most comprehensive books on off-pavement driving ever produced …
Road Rage and Aggressive Driving: Steering Clear of Highway Warfare
Do you drive with stress and frustration? Do you frequently complain about other drivers or get involved in hostile interactions with other motorists? Are you afraid for your teenage drivers in this climate of highway warfare? We’re in the midst of an escalating epidemic of aggressive driving, which eats up 250 billion dollars a year in economic cost …
Whether the reader wants to knows how their NASCAR heroes achieve their superspeedway feats or how to get the most of their own cars at the local track on Friday nights, this illustrated guide provides the answers. Topics like positioning, drafting, passing, cornering, proper lines and pit strategies are illustrated with color photos and specially commissioned illustrations. Also …