So you wanna be a carhauler? Hope you like walking!

Theres a part of me that wish i started in car hauling instead of flatbed... I think i would really enjoy it

 

Threads like this one are great...because they give (in part, at least) the "real deal" on what different types of freight are really like.

@Hammer166 -- I'm gonna go out on a limb here....and guess....because (in part) of all of the above info.....you're not fat, are you?

--Lual

 

It’s never too late to start. I wanted to haul cars for 20 years before I actually pulled the trigger at 45 years old. 11 years later and I am glad I did it and very likely will haul cars the remainder of my career.

 

It’s fairly easy to tell when I slowed down from 8-9 loads a week to 5.

 

Anybody who DOES NOT think these guys work just needs to visit the Ford-Kansas City plant. You don’t even have to go inside, as you can watch from Hwy 69. The pics don’t do the place justice as to how big the lots are, how many vehicles are jammed into them, or how many haulers are usually crammed in there loading. It’s a completely different place, today, from what Google’s image shows. The building we go into is completely different from the image and there are new vehicles jammed in every nook and cranny they can stick one, all around that building. The outbound lots are crammed full of vehicles, compared to the image. Likewise, there are expanded supplier trailer lots and more of them. The place is booming.

 

That was my favorite place to load towards when I was a company driver, because the round trip was an awesome paycheck. 650 loaded miles or so to Iowa and 500 or so from Claycomo back to Ky.

 

I failed to mention, one needs to factor in the weather, when looking at the size of these lots, too. These places are no fun, when it’s -5°F and the wind is howling. I used to run ramps, from KC to Omaha. The winters up that corridor are brutal.

 

This. I remember having jeans freeze to the side rail while securing a car on an upper deck in a Michigan snowstorm.
In contrast, car hauler decks become BBQ's on the exceptionally warm days.
All of this is in addition to the daily 3 - 7 mile walk.