So what did you do before getting into trucking?

I am actually filthy rich from investments and real estate. I wanted to see how peasant's lived so I became a truck driver.

 

Well for 17 years I was my momma's baby boy.
Then for 4 years I was a trained killer for the united states government slash United States Marine Corps.
The for the last 34 years I have been a truck driver slash husband slash father slash grandfather .

Wow not much of a life when it put like that LMAO.
Now if I were to add the details man what a story it has been !!!!!

 

Some things are better left unsaid... trade secrets

 

Nine years in retail (and that was my first job...), but I'd always been fascinated by trucks since I was a little kid. Finally decided to go to driving school, and found one to fit my schedule: I was working full time , and going to school Saturdays and Sundays, 20 hours each weekend, for six months... and the school was about 40 miles from my home.

 

Paperboy, concessionaire, landscaper, dog walker, loan shark, bicycle mechanic, tutor, auto mechanic, bouncer, knife salesman, tire salesman, furniture delivery driver, online sales agent, poker player, newspaper webmaster, truck driver, entrepreneur...

 

I've worked with Event Management companies, Event Security companies, Regular security companies, and I've loaded and unloaded cargo planes for two different companies.

 

Lets see, when I was real young I helped my dad who owned a fuel stop and towing business, that is where i found my love for all things truck related. In school I was a dish dog, line cook, then worked as a new/used car prep person for a Chevy dealer which introduced me to auto auctions and car haul. My first job out of high school was as an electrician part time and diesel mechanic for a school bus fleet full time. This is where I obtained my cdl, was the youngest cdl third party tester in Pennsylvania at 19 years old in 1993, worked this job until I turned 21 and started hauling cars and other freight OTR.

 

DQ cook, game operator, gas station attendant, college student, machine operator, printing press operator, Navy Veteran, prepress technician, digital production artist, network administrator, college graduate (5 years of night school), computer technician, technical instructor, husband, dad, grandpa... first 55 years... now for something new! 0-o

 

I started out in food industry jobs, then construction, then bartending. then trucking, then bartending then trucking, currently bartending and about to back trucking.

 

Just tested my hand at street industries, had a small stable, no employee base. Paid them 10% of what they took, after all I took all the risks. Then Uncle Sam made me a offer I could not refuse. Thinking of trying the streeet industries again, made better money. Although with all the new regulations makes it hard to make the same money.