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Andy Turnbull is a free-lance writer for newspapers and magazines around the world.
Born in Toronto he dropped out of school to travel, live and work across Canada and in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and Europe.
Since 1960 he has been a reporter on weekly papers in Trenton, Ont, Hundred Mile House and Kamloops, BC, on daily newspapers in Belleville, Kingston and Peterborough, editor of weeklies in Owen Sound and Kitchener Ontario and Cache Creek BC and a copy editor on the old Toronto Telegram.
His freelance work has been bylined in all three of the newspapers now published in Toronto, in the Star Weekly, Weekend, and Today Magazines, in Macleans, Reader's Digest, Equinox, Popular Science , Popular Mechanics, The Geographical Magazine, This Country Canada, the Japan Times newspaper, the German newsmagazine Spotlight and dozens of other periodicals.
In 1980 he wrote the book Another Way, which proved to thousands of Canadians that they can make a living at home.
In 1985 he became editor of the trucking newspaper Truck News. Since then he has been editor of Independent Trucker, associate editor of Today's Trucking and correspondent for Road King in the U.S., Truck and Truck and Driver in England, Truck'n Life in Australia, New Zealand Trucking in New Zealand and Fernfahrer in Germany. He is co-author of the children's book By Truck to the North, published this year by Annick.