America’s Night Drivers

Northern Advocate, 24 December 1938, Page 7

America’s Night Drivers

In Long Haul, by A. J. Bezzerides, the story is graphically told of *Wie night truckers in America who cover immense distances every night, in perils many, in conditions always nerve wracking, sometimes ghastly, for contractors, it is shown, are more than often “ruthless and grasping,” and machines “antediluvian.” The narrative flicks along with something of the hum, and wonder, and speed of the lorries on which the author rode. It makes a vivid and

motionful story, with the novelist’s power of presenting what goes on in the minds of the drivers and crews, as well as what is outward and seen by all.

James Curtis,> in “They Drive by Night,” has done a similar story of those who drive the English routes by night. He has a reference to the practice of giving a lift to girls, against which Mr Alfred Short, M.P., spoke recently in the British House of Commons. Both books are good, and in their subject, they break new ground, and remind us of a night world of toilers, we are easily prone to forget.

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