Steve Viscelli has been awarded three ASA Section Outstanding Book Awards for 2017 for The Big Rig. The awards are as follows:
- The Max Weber Book Award from the Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, from the American Sociological Association
- The Outstanding Book Award from the Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility from the American Sociological Association
- Section on Labor and Labor Movements Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Award from the American Sociological Association