Doing local deliveries and eating on the road?!

Yes, some car hauling jobs have a lot of walking. I did mostly wholesale work into auctions, so I would make 5-7 stops each day picking up cars, haul them to one of the auctions I serviced and then unload. My main auction, Manheim New York (in Newburgh) the truck lot where we unloaded was 7/10 of a mile from the gate we parked the cars at, plus walking to get the cars pulled out of the auction for the next days delivery and walking at each dealership stop.

I was in the best shape of my life when I was car hauling, same as my days as a heavy duty tow truck operator, which also required a lot of labor especially cleaning up a truck wreck with spilled cargo.

 

I left home January 17th,2008 and returned home the third week of December. Was working in northern Alberta Canada. The money was obscene, but there were very few restaurants. There were no grocery stores. Everything available was premade sandwiches from a cooler in a cstore. I got sandwiched out.

I remember leaving, heading south and stopping at a Flying J in Grassland AB that had hot food. Cold as hell, middle of the day, and it’s dark outside because of heavy snow and howling wind. They had hot food that required a fork. Being up in those areas feels like being on a different planet. So desolate that it feels as if you are in some post apocalyptic wasteland. Like the Book of Eli was about a truck driver searching for hot food.