What finally made you new guys take the leap?

or if you followed him thru Indy the other night you would have seen him almost rip my passenger side mirror off in the work zone when he felt like speeding thru it and passing on the right.. :smt108

 

Well I was working at a Booger King, making nothing. I started playing a video game that was a trucking game (Sega's American Pro Trucker) and I was the Grand Champion at my local Arcade. I had always liked trucks, and loved to drive, so I figured "What the Heck!"

I took a course offered by the local college, and went to Wiley Sanders in Sept of 2000. Problem was it was actually taught by MTA Schools...

Yep you read that right, I started driving because of a stupid video game...

 

i whent through a bad devorce about three years ago and took it realy hard turned out to be a blessing.i've been a auto body tech all my life my parents had a shop and i grew up in the buissnes i'am 49 now.and i hate it the auto body collision buiness has realy whent to $#!t the last few years and is totaly controld by the insurance company let me tell they decide how much you get paid how long it's gona take how you repair it and what kind of parts you use to fix it useualy cheep sub par after market parts that dont fit dont perform and are cheeply made and are much harder to make fit than o.e.m parts.not to mention the none english speaking people that have flooded the industry and will do the job for noyhing because rent on thier multy family trailer is cheep and the income they used to make in thier country is nothing comared to what they can make here in the good old usa compare pessose to dollars and our crappy economy looks pretty good to them.if i tell a insurance adjuster thats not enough money to repair something he will say well pedro will fix it for that and pedro will so you get whats going on as i said rent at the local tiajauana trailer park is cheep.i now live in a house in texas that costs 800 a month rent its old in non efiechiant and electric bills run about 350 to 400 a month texas heat is a mother @#&^%@.i'am singel have no bills exept for cell and this place my kids are grown child support is paid why not trucking i and my freinds say its prfect for me so off to stevens transport i go i know it's not all gona be roses nothing ever is but i'am ready for a change in every aspect of my life its taken me 3 years to get my feet under me and my head on strait after my devorce.so the gypsie life is the life for me lol

 

Besides fightin, raisin hell, drinkin beer, ridin horses, and shootin guns....driving was the only other thing I've ever wanted to do...those other things are much more fun, but I still haven't found anybody that would pay me to do them...so I drive.

I've had some good jobs (or, what most would call good jobs), I'm a lil smarter than your average hillbilly and I have other skills (electrician, welder, mechanic, heavy equipment operator, even made some darn good money training walking and racking horses for a while)...things is, I just don't play well with others...at least not for extended periods of time.

 

Just out of curiosity, what years did you work for HR Stansell?

 

I had a random thought as I looked around my house and realized that everything in it had at some point been in or arrived by a truck.