{"product_id":"9781618425751","title":"Toots: Woman in a Man's World","description":"Toots Holzheimer, a hard working mother of eight, drove trucks for a living from the 1960’s to 1990’s across some of Australia’s most inhospitable terrain, Cape York Peninsula. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToots delivered freight to the northern tip of Australia \u003cbr\u003efor over thirty years, servicing her own trucks, loading them \u003cbr\u003eby hand (without a forklift until the late 1980s) and then \u003cbr\u003edriving for days alone. Toots and her husband Ron constructed their own roads and built their own bridges, renewing them after each wet season. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout bitumen roads, Toots battled corrugation, melon holes, washouts and bull-dust. Flies and mosquitoes were her constant companions as she dug her way out of bogs or coaxed her ‘Old Girl’, a MAN diesel truck, up and down the steep slopes of the Great Dividing Range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing raised Toots’ ire more quickly than someone telling \u003cbr\u003eher what she could or couldn’t do. Attitude was what \u003cbr\u003emattered to Toots, not gender. Toots attributed her success \u003cbr\u003ein life to her determination to ‘do what you want to do and do it well’.","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151740813552,"sku":"9781618425751","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618425751_p0.jpg?v=1763857691","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618425751","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}