Auto transport hiring little / no experience?

My best year I hauled 5000 units with no damage. I have paper to back up said. I have earned the right to joke when I want and to be serious when I want. Feel free to ask for experienced advice. I also give that out for free.

Did you have a question ?

 

Solid Cold - I just looked you over and you're all over the map here - care to tell us a bit more about yourself ?

 

Ok, I guess my point was it is like a catch 22. How do you get experience when they won't let you get the experience. I personally drove a wrecker for a few weeks, then to a 2 car rollback, then a 4 car rollback and after years of that they finally put me in a carrier. That's one way to get the experience needed for car haul, another would be to go to a school and be trained to do it.

 

Then I guess I'm full of ####. But I'm not looking to break into Carhaul, you are. And I have news for you. In the auto hauling industry, layoffs are a reality. The Auto Industry in general is very cyclical.

But like you hinted at, I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

@SOLID C0LD , one of the qualifications for being a good carhauler is that you need to be an arrogant #######. I just goes with the territory. The guys you are giving crap for being irreverent also happen to be a couple of the more knowledgeable guys about carhaul on here. It's just we how we are around here, and getting your back up isn't going to help you.

As far as getting hired with little experience, you would be better to just take whatever you can get. I'll tell you that only those who are naturals at driving a truck stand much of chance at being able to learn to drive and haul cars at the same time. There's multiple threads on here as to why, that some searching and reading will find. If you think you got what it takes, beat on some doors, and stick with whoever you can get on with for a couple years, and you can then more or less pick and choose who to work for.

P.S. While the union outfits do layoffs, don't think the biannual slowdowns won't effect you, no matter who you work for in this industry. We barely had a slowdown last year, but this year we're in week 5 of very low volume. It's the nature of carhaul. No we don't lay anyone off, but it dang sure drops everyones's income.