Help, Classroom DVD about trucking.

purgoose10 · Jan 16, 2011

I have to talk to three 8th grade classrooms in Feb about careers in trucking. I have looked about everywhere for a dvd or other about this subject. Can anyone tell me where to find something like this.
I need some help because I don't think I can talk for 30 min's about trucking. I know, I know only 30 minutes?
Appreciate the help.
Would be even better if it included Expediting.

Turtle · Jan 16, 2011

Well, you could show them Hoffa, the 1992 movie with Jack Nicholson & Danny DeVito. That should give them good insight into the trucking business.

There's this, but I haven't seen it. I have seen Twenty Trucks, though. More for younger kids, but there might be something in there you can use.

Might be some stuff on YouTube you could use, too.

xiggi · Jan 16, 2011

Tell them to go to college.

letzrockexpress · Jan 16, 2011

Black Dog with Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis and Meatloaf is good trucking film. I personally would just find an old episode of Movin' On with Sonny Pruitt...oh , and there's always Smokey and the Bandit....
YouTube - East Bound and Down

jball64 · Jan 16, 2011

Have you tried your local library? Ours has a career area for kids. Yours might have the same. What about making a short video yourself. Over the course of a couple trips you could have hours of info you could show over their equipment.

purgoose10 · Jan 17, 2011

jball64 said:
Have you tried your local library? Ours has a career area for kids. Yours might have the same. What about making a short video yourself. Over the course of a couple trips you could have hours of info you could show over their equipment.

I have checked the library as well as everything else I know of. Thanks.
Hoffa is longer than the class, and then it would take an hour for them to figure out who Hoffa was.