With stunning photographs and simple text, you'll find out everything you've ever wanted to know about semi-tractor trailers - those big eighteen wheelers that haul everything from food to toys to logs to gasoline. The text points out the different types of semis: flat beds, dump trucks, tankers, and box cars as well as trucks that carry cars. It also tells of the trucker's life - long hours on the road through all types of weather, sleeping in cabins behind the cab . . . dining and resting at truck stops along the way...