The author, Mick Twemlow, is a highly experienced truck driver. He spent twenty two years of his working life driving trucks in mainland Europe ,the Middle East and Russia.Having left school in 1966 he joined the British Army and served in the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment.He left the Army in 1972 and worked as a truck driver.His international career began in 1975, with his first trip to Yugoslavia. In the same year he drove the John Surtees Formula 1 team transporter to European Grand Prix.He worked for several international hauliers until 1978, when he joined Pro-Motor.A specialist in Eastern European operations he also drove to the Middle East and Russia for them.

Leaving Pro-Motor in 1983 he drove mainly to Western European destinations, until 1987, when he bought his own truck and worked for himself.Between 1990 and 1995 he lived in Moscow, operating his own truck. He has described this period of his life in his first book, "The Vodka Cola Cowboy".Having finished his international driving career in 1997, he then followed a varied non driving career, the last five years of which he worked as a British Prison Officer.Retiring from the Prison Service in 2010 he returned to truck driving, within the U.K. for supermarket companies.Mick gave up trucking in 2014 due to ill health and took official retirement in 2015.

He now lives happily in Kent, with his wife Sue. They travel widely both within the U.K. and in Europe.Mick now spends his time writing, playing bass guitar in bands and building model railways.