This is a story especially for those youngsters who work as part of a family business. A mother, father, and young son run the diner at a truck stop, while his uncle runs the service garage. The mother, father, and son begin work long before daylight hours. The young boy catches his school bus from the diner, in the morning, after his job of squeezing the fresh orange juice. The diner has regular customers: the eighteen wheeler, the silver milk tanker, the moving van, the flat bed, and the tow truck. The family knows each trucker’s breakfast order by heart. This morning the old green pickup does come. Everyone begins to wonder where he can be. Off on the school bus, the boy asks the bus driver to radio in the location of the green pickup which he sees has broken down.

Melissa Iwai’s illustrations are done in bright paint and cut paper. There are 16 different types of trucks inside the front cover and repeated inside the back cover.