In the remote north, machines don’t just replace workers — they erase legacies. At a sprawling open-pit mine in northern Alberta, the last generation of human operators faces extinction. The machines are learning fast. The silence is growing louder. Jake, a seasoned haul truck operator haunted by the death of his daughter, wrestles with meaning and memory as his job — and everything it represents — begins to disappear. Around him, a tight-knit crew navigates shifting ground: grief, guilt, survival, and resistance. As automation closes in and corporate pressure builds, evidence disappears, videos vanish, and people are silenced. But truth—pressed down by time and pressure—refuses to stay buried. No Operator on Board: Pushback is a searing, character-driven novel about the quiet rebellion of working-class people on the edge of technological erasure — and the human cost of progress.