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Article Excerpt
Uncommon Carriers, by John McPhee. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York. 2006. Pp. 248. ISBN 0-374-28039-8. $24.00
In this, his twenty-ninth book, John McPhee has produced an elegant account of his adventures visiting and reporting about persons at work in six transportation sectors. Readers of McPhee's previously published books, and articles in the New Yorker that he has written over the last forty years, already know his expository skills across a wide range of subjects. As evidenced by this background, McPhee is not a transportation and logistics professional. He is Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
For material on both the initial and concluding essays in the book, McPhee crossed the United States on two different trips with Don Ainsworth, the driver of "the world's most beautiful truck," an 80,000-pound eighteen-wheeler--a gleaming chemical tank carrier. The many observations reported in the two essays include vivid vignettes of the colorful and esthetic, and of serious safety and economic hazards that confront an owner and operator of a heavy truck, e.g., drivers of automobiles oblivious to a truck' s braking distances,...
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