For what it's worth, I called them and told them I didn't feel I was ready to drive for their company (United Road). He said it was refreshing to hear someone realize they didn't have the skills yet. Again, it's not like anything was promised and I was some sort of sure thing in the first place.
I'll check back with them in 6 months or so, depending on how I feel my driving is. In the meantime I'm gonna live vicariously through you guys on this thread.
Thanks for the replies and best of luck out there.
How long should I wait?
Discussion in 'Car Hauler and Auto Carrier Trucking Forum' started by DannyD, Jul 27, 2014.
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i know alot of guys were giving you alot of flaq but you made the right choice if i was you id get some van experience in and like you said in 6 months if you feel more confident and have more exp go for it alot of the car hauler companies will give you a crash course in it and it does pay nicely. if you need any help just post away there are good guys on this form as well as lemons
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I'd typed it out in a long form on here somewhere, but basically, once you have got enough experience that you don't go into information overload when driving, you can think about hauling cars. There are so many other things to worry about that maneuvering a truck has to be second nature so you have the brain power to worry about carhaul specifics.
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Danny D. In time you will see that getting driving experience is the right thing to do. Good Luck to you.
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http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/car-hauler-auto-carrier-trucking-forum/233501-precision-motor-transport-group.html<br><br>
Please read this thread, it may or may not apply but this is my experience -
You want to make sure you have a lot of experience before you start driving auto transport trucks, and 6 months isn't going to do it. Because, if yo ugo and tear up one of those trucks, you'll never drive for a decent auto transport company ever again.
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The information overload comment was pretty much what I was thinking. I'm still in the stage where I've got to remember to turn off my signal rather than it being an automatic reflex. There's things like that, little and big, that I would feel more comfortable when it becomes 2nd nature.
At that point then I'm ready to learn how to secure cars, how to make sure they're not to high for bridges, how to distribute the weight, and whatever else car hauling entails.
If 6 months isn't long enough, I'll wait a year. If a year isn't long enough, then 2 years. All I was getting at is I'll see how I feel in 6 months. 2 weeks ago I had thought I would be doing it about now, that sort of thing. I realize I'm not ready.
I checked out that thread. Nifty that ya went straight out of school into car hauling. Nice job. Your school was obviously better than mine. Now that I'm driving it's better and I'm getting some help, but until then almost as much time was spent on the phone as teaching us. I pretty much had to use the internet here (this site, YouTube, a few other sites) to learn this stuff.
I didn't feel anyone was giving me flack. I viewed it as they were giving me help. I'm new and it's good that people are saying "wait" as opposed to saying "go for it" and then I do and totally mess up that segment of my career.
Eventually I'm going to do this. In the mean time I'll be reading what I can on this. Any information I can gather before hand can only help.
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I would like to say ,I think if you have the opportunity to take it you should , here's why , when you haul freight/dry van , your learning to drive period when you get accustom to the movement and weight of the truck you get comfortable with that type of truck right , I'm sure there will be opinions about this and that ok , but if you learn to drive a dry van why can you learn to drive a car hauler as your first type of truck , if you learn on a carhauler that will be the only thing you'll know
When you drive a truck ,your driving a truck .When you're placing cars on the truck your places cars on the truck .You're not gonna do both at the exact same time but you'll learn each one during different times while on the road
I'm not sure how much time you'll need but remember if you pay attention and feel the movement of your truck you'll be fine ,
I would vote for you to not be scared and take a chance ,be positive . No one should wake up in their sleeper and say I hope I don't get into a wreck today , you should want to manifest positive thoughts and say I want to make it to my destination Safely, I just belive if you want somthing bad enough you'll have it period ,nothing can stop you but youLast edited: Jul 29, 2014
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You forget that you learned in an enclosed. An open carhauler has much more to deal with maneuvering down the road. You can't just drive a stinger like a doorslammer as you can with an enclosed setup!
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Aye ... Ya know your right in that sense, sence I've been in my enclosed 9
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