Why did YOU become a trucker?

Well, I sold my delivery service in 2003, I had a 5 year non-compete clause with the sale of it, I kicked around and did all kinds of stuff that was another J.O.B. to me, I thought about starting a auto transport business and then I ran into the "You need experience" Thing and so now I am a grad from my Community College and going to work for a good company, I have always had respect for truckers and trucking.. I remember laying in the back glass shelf in my parents Caprice Classic riding acrossed the country to see relatives and seeing all those big trucks and doing the horn signal and them honking at me.. I loved it then and am still enjoying it. TD.

 

I'm not driving yet, but I'm getting my CDL's this fall. I'm tired of my IT jobs getting outsourced. I drove a straight truck way back (non-cdl), and since my IT job (again) is going over there at the end of the year, I decided to go to something that I've wanted to do since I was 5.

My uncle did it, my dad drives for schneider.

 

That would be Mojave Airport, It has a long enough strips to land any in the air. Looonng runways.

They do convert passenger busses into air bound cargo planes for Fed up and Buster Brown. They also do long term storage for Northrup and Boeing. When the plane gets sold they have a paint booth that will hold on of those bad boys, put your color on it and deliver it.

There are also several experimental aircraft manufactures located there.

The salvage was forced to be moved over to the old George AFB in Adelanto, CA . ( Don't knoq how they moved non-running Jumbos but they showed up at George. Its a miracle) Edwards says if its being stored in there it must fly. I guess since its there airspace they rule, I don't really know but thats the guess.

CHP purchased a Ranger for Mojave and Edwards nixed that because it was putting an aircraft continuously in there airspace, the airship got moved to Parker Center, in LA.

My son is currently working part time in maintenance at Mojave Airport.

 

Both of my parents were drivers, my Dad had a few of his own rigs. So I drove for a while when I left the USN, got off the road had a Radio business for a while, then went back to Driving near then end of the 80's.

 

its in my blood my father did it

 

I got into trucking by accident, started off working for a Farmer in southeast VA when I was 16, worked on his hog farm. My Uncle who has been there for 40 plus years told me to get my hind parts in the 65 B Model Mack, hook it to the double deck hog trailer and back up to the chute, Well I did it and it was by accident that I could drive it and back it up. A couple of weeks went by and the sent me to get a chauffeurs license to drive intrastate for them, when I turned 21, the law required me to get the "CDL" to drive interstate, I continued to haul little fat girls, for The same man until 1994 when I accidentally went to work for crash and Roll Express (aka CR ENGLAND) that lasted about a year. Then off to work for a O/O who leased to Landstar, that was great until he got called home and no one was left to run the company, Then I graduated to a Large Car company C&C Trucking out of Crump TN. I think some of the older hands on here will know who they are, but for you younger folks, there were not many who contest that they had Large Cars with even bigger egos behind the wheel, me included. SO That is my Accidentally falling into trucking, so 24 years later and I only claim to have 16 true years of OTR experience, I do not count the first 8 as OTR even though I probably worked harder than any one OTR, and surely pushed more mile. Try working for a Farmer, you haul livestock,Combines, grain, and anything else to make a profit including hauling ###.

 

i though trucking was kool when I first started and wanted to see everywhere
And I have seen all of the us and canada
Alot I would never like to see again >:O
Trucking has its up and downs it helped me to get over a few bad love affairs in the day to keeping my mind on other things

 

It's a storage yard. Jets and planes are stored there from all around the world. They pay big money too. The desert is perfect because of the zero humidity keeps the corrosion to a minimum.

 

I was a warehouseman before being a trucker. I always idolized their lifestyle and turning to trucking was on my mind for years. Since I'm independant and single, it was a perfect fit for me.

 

My grandfather drove for many years until the late seventies when he retired because of the " younger drivers." My dad has driven since coming home from vietnam and he says he will retire when he can because of the "young drivers", ( I see a pattern here....lol) I am one of those young drivers but thank god i was brought up right and try to do the job the way my dad does it, so far so good.