Holiday Handling by Kris P. Kreme
Independent trucker Rachel Handler has always rubbed the largely male competition the wrong way by undercutting their bids and flirting her way to profits.
A mystery job for the holidays might be more than she can handle as she discovers that sometimes the prospect of taking a huge load involves a lot more than trucking.
Kris P. Kringle delivers the first tale of the season by truckload.
Rachel Handler is a woman in a largely man’s profession. In recent years she took over her father’s independent trucking business, driving custom loads all over the country for the lowest bid. This year she might just get a load even she isn’t fully prepared to handle.
Nobody Handles a Load like Handler is the slogan on the side of the truck but when Rachel underbids all the other competition to win a mystery load, only described as being very large and with the potential for multiples, she doesn’t know what to expect.
Ordinarily she gets the measurements and weight before ever agreeing to transport something but this seems like easy money and the bids are all high due to the unknown factors involved. Rachel has always undercut the competition, using her feminine charms to earn perfect feedback and gain more business in just her few years than most serious truck drivers gain in a lifetime of work.
While most of the competing truckers despise her, the client she has signed up for with this mystery load might just find her absolutely perfect for his load. Of course there’s much more to this load than trucking. As Mr. Leonards puts it to her, Rachel won’t even need her truck for this load.
What awaits her in the warehouse where he meets her is nothing like Rachel had expected. The description of a massive load to take overnight with potential for more just doesn’t fit the eight foot fiberoptic Christmas tree. A demonstration of how this tree lights up changes everything as Rachel finds herself embracing the job more than she ever has, taking on the heaviest loads of her career.
In the independent shipping business it’s often the body of feedback that proves to be the advantage for tackling high paying loads. For Rachel it’s simply her body that is the advantage and she’ll find herself tackling load after load, really proving that handling the holidays can be fun, even if it wears someone out.
Recent Comments