Advice for new car haulers

I would strongly advise you to get a couple years experience before diving into car hauling. Trucking is hard enough when you are new, car hauling will be much worse.
I can honestly say in my 28 years of long haul, car hauling is the hardest thing I have ever done. My only regret is I didn't start hauling cars sooner.

Good luck.

 

Should be plenty of cars in Savannah

the rest of the advice is spot on.
Get a year or two of experience driving a dry van , with no tickets or accidents . Then look into LTL line haul or cryogenic tankers if you want to team drive .

the sleepers on the car haulers are super small , although most I see , spend the night in a motel .

 

When you load a vehicle you have to survey it. Pretty much an industry standard vehicle survey form. Similar to the one on a trailer rental contract. Any previous damage to it you may be held responsible for if it’s not marked on the survey when you receive it from the shipper. When you deliver it the receiver does one, any damages not on your survey from when you picked it up are on you. Don’t get in the habit of routinely signing the thing without actually doing a thorough survey. Kind of like doing a pretrip from the drivers seat. Easy to miss stuff that a receiver won’t kind of thing. Little dents or scratches and various marks can add up to a pretty big pile of freight claims over a year. Biggest gripe I hear coming from guys I know in that biz is drivers not doing surveys and bleeding them white with claims.

 

I’d walk around Slowly and take a nice video of the vehicle before you load it .