Bonnie S. (Bonnie) -
I love memoirs, but am pretty sick of the battered child the abusing, drug-addicted, alcoholic, father, mother, mother's boyfriend. The bullying. This book is a breath of fresh air, funny as heck, and informative. Whodathunkit? A memoir written by a mover, a long haul trucker. What's to tell?
Oh, a lot. Did you know that there is a heirarchy in the trucking world and that movers are so far at the bottom that they will seldom sit at the counters of truck stops and that even waitresses treat them as something the cat dragged in? This is a tale of movers, the customer's, and how they try to rip off the company with damage claims, that usually the driver must make good on, even false claims. A story of packers and how they do it best, how they make the most money per round trip, the competition. Sooo interesting.
Another little treat in reading this is that a bit of a way in when I was already hooked, Murphy tells about his friendship with the owner of Joyce Movers out of Oxford, CT, and how he came to be affiliated with him. Joyce was twice our movers and we loved them! Everything Mr Murphy says about how careful they are with the house, the belongings, their writing up the condition of pieces is true. I've seen it twice and watched them sticker every item we owned down to an individual shovel, a basket, a garbage pail, and just yesterday pulled a 10 year old sticker off of the back of a bookcase I moved across the room.
Sadly, movers have the most complaints and worst reviews of most any other company that works with the public. Unfair, in my experience.
I highly recommend this book.
Oh, a lot. Did you know that there is a heirarchy in the trucking world and that movers are so far at the bottom that they will seldom sit at the counters of truck stops and that even waitresses treat them as something the cat dragged in? This is a tale of movers, the customer's, and how they try to rip off the company with damage claims, that usually the driver must make good on, even false claims. A story of packers and how they do it best, how they make the most money per round trip, the competition. Sooo interesting.
Another little treat in reading this is that a bit of a way in when I was already hooked, Murphy tells about his friendship with the owner of Joyce Movers out of Oxford, CT, and how he came to be affiliated with him. Joyce was twice our movers and we loved them! Everything Mr Murphy says about how careful they are with the house, the belongings, their writing up the condition of pieces is true. I've seen it twice and watched them sticker every item we owned down to an individual shovel, a basket, a garbage pail, and just yesterday pulled a 10 year old sticker off of the back of a bookcase I moved across the room.
Sadly, movers have the most complaints and worst reviews of most any other company that works with the public. Unfair, in my experience.
I highly recommend this book.
