Why...

The glory days of car hauling associated with the Big 3 Automakers is long gone.

 

Loading, unloading or transferring from one truck to another, it’s crazy. One of these days I’m gonna run one of them over.[/QUOTE]

If you see my truck unloading on the shoulder it is because that is where I have to unload because that particular dealer has no place for me on the lot. I am not there to piss off people. l can remember a day many years ago when a “Professional Driver” would have slowed down and moved over when possible to go by me. Now they won’t even move over when the other lane is open.

 

The problem I see is that some people who have looked at a carhauler going down the road think how hard could that possibly be. As we both know it is much harder than it looks. I won’t speak to your business model because I am not sure what yours is, but I will speak about mine. It isn’t all sunshine and roses and I have to constantly have my A Game on, but there still is some #### good money to be made. Can someone who knows absolutely nothing about hauling cars or trucking do what I do successfully, probably not. But I will gladly let them try because I am not vested in their game. Are there some people currently doing exactly what I do that are going broke? Probably but I don’t have a vested interest in them either. I am a firm believer that if one is properly trained, financially prepared and well motivated they can be successful even when others are not.
100% of the freight I currently haul recently was awarded a 3 year contract. I probably will be doing this for 3 more years unless something better comes along. In 3 years if it stays as good or gets better I will keep doing it. If it gets worse or I decide I don’t like it, I will do something else which may be retirement. Until then car hauling provides me with a #### good living, but it #### well better because I earn my pay. Not every truck driver can do what I do and not every truck driver that can do what I do will do what I do.
One of the better carriers in this business recently lost a major customer at two plants. Many of their drivers are leaving car haul because to go with the carrier that got the business would supposedly mean taking a pay cut. The manufacturers need to remember this because carhaulers such as myself and others will not work cheap and there are very good paying jobs available holding a steering wheel.

 

Some of the Big 3 freight is cheap when compared to some of the better foreign companies freight building cars right here in the USA.

 

Lol. Also some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some wonder what happened.

 

Sure there is a big whiner in this thread. It's a free market, take or don't take vehicles at your pleasure but DON'T TELL OTHERS WHAT TO DO. Afford others the same choices afforded you, live and let live.

 

What truth? Transporters taking low priced loads? Customers try to claim existing damage on you? Pickup trucks pulling 4/5 car trailers? Ha, it happens thousand of times everyday, get with the program.

You are having a midlife crisis, get with the ladies more often it helps to relief tension.