Retired elementary school teacher of 35 years, Carol Gordon Ekster, thinks it’s important to expose students of all ages to many different career paths, trucking included.

Her recently released children’s book, Trucker Kid, highlights a child’s pride in her father’s career as a truck driver.

Ekster said “I think there's an importance to every job if we're just made aware of it, and how blessed we are that we have people in the world willing to do all kinds of things,”. “There are people who are going to bring medical supplies and goods. We need truckers. If you could feel the passion and see the goodness of what truckers and trucking does for our world, maybe you’d say, Hey, one day I want to be a trucker.”

Ekster got the idea for the book in 2013 when she happened to sit next to a family at a restaurant who were talking about their recent road trip and trucking.

Ekster recalls “She was the most precocious 3-year-old,” overhearing the family. “It’s a fiction story, but the idea of a little girl going with her daddy in the truck, it touched me somehow. I just loved the idea of the story.”