Roiling Dust

About the Book

After working line haul along the Australian roads, former teacher Herm Zandman decided to “switch gears” hauling grain and fertilizer across Outback Australia. It turned out to be a trucking experience vastly different from the one which he described in his two books Blood, Sweat and Gears and It’s Not a Truck! It’s a B-Double!

This story takes the reader through the vastness of the Outback in a bulk tipper B-Double. The common theme running through the book is the puniness of human scratches on the vast expanse. Roiling dust, created by Outback travelers like road trains and B-Doubles, settles quickly once the rigs have traveled through and serenity returns as if nothing had ever stirred the landscape.

In the book, the author relates first hand experiences with the land, the people, the flora and fauna, plus a number of unique Outback activities and touristic attractions that can be found by the discerning tourist and the roaming truck driver. Dr Zandman and his wife currently reside in South Australia. He is still trucking at the time of writing, this time on a milk haulage B-Double, the target of his next children’s book Tanker 80.

About the Author

I am a former school teacher, currently on sabbatical. I have already written and published an adult book about interstate trucking called Blood, Sweat and Gears (Eloquent Books; http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title:BloodSweatAndGears.html). The book has received excellent reviews in our local news paper (The Border Watch) and in the national trucking magazine Owner Driver.