What is the hardest part of car hauling

Two words: speed kills

 

Totally agree. As a trainer, I train everyone to go easy, no jumping around, no cranking down (40 ft.lbs is all that is needed) on the cars and plan your load carefully on paper before you load them to avoid more work later. My training sucked so the damage is done. I have since written a training program for my company that I use. I didn't even know there was a longer pull bar until I was around 5 years in. I now make sure all of my new guys get a long bar. I also used to run all local which caused a lot of damage. Loading and unloading 24 cars per day wears you down fast. In a 12 hour day, only 2 hours is spent driving. Chain trailers are faster, but I now see the wisdom in strap trucks and have recommended switching to NexGen trucks to prevent future drivers from becoming a 40 year old in an 80 year old body.

 

I have some questions as well. I'm not an idiot either! Haha I am a new car manager at a high-line dealership and bought a 2011 F-350 dully to haul the cars we dealer trade. I called progressive. They told me I'd be roughly $6,000 for a year of insurance on 1 million. I'm looking at a double car carrier vs. a 3 car to try and keep my weight below the 26,001 lb limit. Any suggestions from veteran guys that would be willing to help me out. Mistakes you made that I should watch for? The truck only has 58,000 miles and I bought a comprehensive warranty that will go to 148,000 miles. I'm ready to ship just want some wise advice if you have any!

 

Lots to learn in your first year of hustling cars. The hardest thing you will have is learning to stack the units on the right way to balance your weight on a load. Then paying off your damages when you clip something because you will tear cars up your first year. Any car hustler who says they never damaged anything is full of it. After a year or two it gets easy.....

 

2 of your major issues are going to be making sure the cars your moving don't fall off the back of the trailer and keeping on alert for low clearance bridges one of the cheapest ways of turning a new car into a convertible.