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Title: Danger-Heavy Goods: Driving the Toughest, Most Dangerous Roads in the World by Robert Hutchison, Robert A. Hutchinson ISBN: 0-688-06756-5 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: July, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: An Interesting World
Comment: I enjoyed this book more then I thought I would. A book on OTR drives in Europe is normally not the type of book to keep one entertained for hours, but this one did. The writing was very natural to read, very easy but not demeaning in its ease. The world is one that is not known to me, both the trucking part and at the time, Europe. The details did leave me wanting a bit more. If you have the time this is a good way to pass it.

Rating: 4
Summary: Great Stuff
Comment: Although it is somewhat dated, Hutchison's book is a highly entertaining and in a way, heartwarming, account of riding with a heavy trucker from England to Saudi Arabia and back on a "Middle East" run. Hutchison has a very good knack for capturing the characters of the "brotherhood" of truckers and all the people who help and hinder them as they their haul goods. The writing is honest and open, leaving everything open for inspection, from the ingrained racism of many of the British drivers, to the truckers' brothels, to the resorts where it is known that English girls congregate, will to trade a "ride" for a ride back to England. The chronicle of the trip also serves as a critique of the free-market system which was facilitating the undercutting of British drivers by Bulgarians and Turks, and a semi-maudlin lament for "the end of trucking as we know it." But it is also strewn with anecdotes from drivers, both amusing, and absurd. Hutchison also attempts to weave in the history of the area they pass through, but this is not as compelling, and feels almost as if it were added on to make the account more high-brow. But nonetheless, I highly recommend this as an unusual travelogue, and as an account of trucking, it's miles better than Graham Coster's A Thousand Miles From Nowhere: Trucking Two Continents.