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    Truckers North, Truckers South

    By Leslie Purdon

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    A fictionalised autobiographical account, which portrays the story of a young man starting his career in road transport.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOld Pond Publishing
    Release dateJan 13, 2015
    ISBN9781908397997
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    Leslie Purdon

    Now retired and living in Kent, Leslie Purdon was in road transport for 46 years. Much of his spare time is taken up with his 1946 Bedford truck which he and his wife, Pauline, take to many road truck shows. In 2006 he published Juggernaut Drivers, a humorous account of trucking in the 1970s.

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