Benjamin David Anderson Sr.'s Blog
April 17, 2023
The Big Drive
This is one of my most favorite smaller books that I had published twice. The first time was through readers Digest in 1967 as a young Junior High (Intermediate school). I won Editors Choice Award for best original story. The book was then Published by Amazon and Kindle. 2023. The synopsis of the story entails this. Based on a true story of actual events. My dad and I went logging in his 1947 Diamond Reo logging truck. We went to the top of the mountain in Fredonia, Arizona. We were loading and dad warned to hang on tight because when the crane dropped the very large trees (3) onto the semi trailer it would bounce the truck so hard that I left my seat and hit the inside roof of the cab, While dad was securing the load with chains and turnbuckles a chain broke and came flying over the top of the load and hit dad right between the eyes knocking off his feet and unconscious. With some help in and out of consciousness we got blocks taped to the pedals of the truck dad called ole Betsy. I drove my first semi truck when I was 8 years old from the top of the mountain (leaving the mapped out logging road) several times and hit a huge rock which threw me onto the right path. I was stopped y the Fredonia Sheriff in town and was guided to the hospital where I saved my fathers life. Later after he was healed he changed Ole Betsy name to Anderson and Sons Trucking. The funny part of the end of this story is that the place where I hit the big rock throwing me back on track , my dad painted a large Bandaid over the spot and wrote OUCH! on top of the Bandaid. I hope you will read on Kindle free and tell me what you liked or disliked about my award winning story turned to book.
March 1, 2023
Introduction
Hi, I am Benjamin David Anderson Sr and I have recently become a children's book author. My books are in range from kindergarten to adult. I have 16 books published through Amazon Hard and paperback covers as well as on Kindle.
I will start this blog (which is my very first ever) with one of my books titled Daytime Nightmare; this book is based upon actually true events that accrued while I an my wife were driving across this beautiful country of ours called the United States of America. Here is the synopsis on this title.
Non-Fiction story of a true event of me and my wife driving a Semi Truck from Minnesota to Amarillo, Texas and being held over there for four days until Interstate 40 west bound was reopened due to severe weather conditions. We got caught up on everything a trucker normally didn't have time to get done. When the freeway was opened, we started heading west towards Ontario, California to deliver a time sensitive sealed load for IBM. We encountered several Tornados of all sizes and kinds of them during our trip to California. We went through hurricane force winds, hail the size of baseballs, flying cows and all kinds of debris thrown at us. We encountered many semis tipped over and cars everywhere. We finally found a safe underpass and helped save the lives of many of the four Wheeler's (Trucker’s language for cars). A few of our new found friends’ cars were swished away by the tornado and we had to give them a ride to the next safe place. We made it to Tucumcari, New Mexico where we met the sheriff and many other deputies to make our reports of the incident. We continued going west to Santa Fe and stayed a few more days to catch up on our bearings before we continued to California to deliver. We then went home for a very restful vacation.
I will start this blog (which is my very first ever) with one of my books titled Daytime Nightmare; this book is based upon actually true events that accrued while I an my wife were driving across this beautiful country of ours called the United States of America. Here is the synopsis on this title.
Non-Fiction story of a true event of me and my wife driving a Semi Truck from Minnesota to Amarillo, Texas and being held over there for four days until Interstate 40 west bound was reopened due to severe weather conditions. We got caught up on everything a trucker normally didn't have time to get done. When the freeway was opened, we started heading west towards Ontario, California to deliver a time sensitive sealed load for IBM. We encountered several Tornados of all sizes and kinds of them during our trip to California. We went through hurricane force winds, hail the size of baseballs, flying cows and all kinds of debris thrown at us. We encountered many semis tipped over and cars everywhere. We finally found a safe underpass and helped save the lives of many of the four Wheeler's (Trucker’s language for cars). A few of our new found friends’ cars were swished away by the tornado and we had to give them a ride to the next safe place. We made it to Tucumcari, New Mexico where we met the sheriff and many other deputies to make our reports of the incident. We continued going west to Santa Fe and stayed a few more days to catch up on our bearings before we continued to California to deliver. We then went home for a very restful vacation.
