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Hauling Checks: A Satirical Aviation Comedy Paperback – November 12, 2009
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- Print length228 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 12, 2009
- Dimensions5.25 x 0.58 x 8 inches
- ISBN-101449563333
- ISBN-13978-1449563332
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- Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (November 12, 2009)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 228 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1449563333
- ISBN-13 : 978-1449563332
- Item Weight : 9.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.58 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #434,316 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #171 in Commercial Aviation (Books)
- #2,790 in Fiction Satire
- #5,464 in Humorous Fiction
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Alex Stone grew up in Munster, Indiana. He’s been flying since age fourteen and received a Bachelors Degree in Aviation Science from Western Michigan University. He has worked as a flight instructor and was a “Freight Dog” in the air cargo industry for seven years. In 2009 he published his first novel "Hauling Checks" and in 2018 he published his second novel "CFI! The Book."
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The book is very factual, and he calls a spade a spade, and, unless you've actually walked the walk you will never know what crap goes on in the night sky when everyone else is asleep and you are being lulled to sleep, by the drone of your turbine engines and complete lack of sleep. To make matters worse one crew member may be sleeping on top of the cargo at that time and there's no way the call for help. So, in that case, you turn the volume on your radio as high as possible so that when air traffic control calls to tell you that you're off course you will wake up with a start and mumble, ' Jet Air 220 is correcting back to the right'. There, a disaster has been averted.
The writer, in my opinion, was very harsh on his copilots. Being that he was flight instructor he should know better and cut them some slack. Otherwise, I enjoyed the book and I actually laughed in places, because I know exactly the airports he was writing about since I had been there myself. One of those airports had a notice, as I recall, that said: 'watch out, on the landing, for alligators, wild boar's, snakes, deer, on the runway. The book is well worth the money and you can decide for yourself whether you would like to carry cargo or checks around her very little pay; hamburger flipping pay to be exact.
The writing was decent with a couple of typos. It went fast, that is why I'm giving it 4 stars...quick read that might make you smile.
Bought the prequel “CFI” too.
Pure comedy! Great Great book, bought them both immediately for friends and family. Now how do I get to know this author.
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I look forward to another book from Alex Stone, but I doubt he can repeat the chaos of this one!


Aviation can be dangerous. Pilots are trained from day one to learn safe procedures for flying an airplane. In my opinion, its not at all funny to act like an idiot in an airplane.

The whole story is written from the perspective of a cargo pilot who works in a seriously debilitated aircraft company. There is a lot of dark humor in this book that's more dark than humorous. The lead establishes himself pretty clearly by describing himself right at the beginning on the book and you know that the tone is set and know in which direction the book is going, or so you think.
This really ill managed company have severely ill maintained planes that the pilots are forced to fly or rather are convinced to believe that they are in a flyable condition and kudos to these pilots for taking it up in the sky , because I would never have the nerve to do that! There were so many things about this airline that was done right wrong, I mean lesser companies have standard operating procedures, subject knowledge and sensible staff, but this place was crammed with under-qualified (and unqualified ) staff, no organisation structure and horrible plane maintenance mechanic. I am all about living life on the edge, but a life like this is just violations of human rights. The crazy shifts and work timings and the effects it has one's personal life is truly bothersome. This horrible boss with no respect to anything but saving money even at the cost of the employees heath both physically and mentally. The random screw ups with the plane, the staff or even the packages will truly leave you open-mouthed. The relief I had when he quits the job and takes the final flight. But obviously the story has to end with a dramatic effect, and dramatic it was! The revelations were such major stuff that were all hiding in plane sight, but still came as a shocker when disclosed.
All thorough out the book, I realized that the lead never had an opportunity to have any kind of an enriching conversation. His weekends were lifeless and filled with troubles. He was truly going through some major life crisis and at several times he let himself be taken for granted, but then you think , hey , what could he have really done? It is not having a backbone , or rather a lack thereof, but it is about the situation you are stuck in and no external exposure to even explore other options because of is working schedule and circle of friends.
One the plus side, I learnt a lot of new pilot terminologies and felt better about my life, so thanks Alex for that ! I cannot imagine how anyone could live a life like this and yet, there are people living like this and I truly want to walk up to them and pat their backs.
Alex stone is a wonderful author who can find humor even in the darkest and the most depressing situations in life and this book shows you that. Even if you want to be depressed for the people in this book, you just end up laughing at their helplessness. The Hauling Checks was a truly engaging book and I'd like to see what is in store with the next book, although I can't imagine what could beat this one with it's major ups and downs.
