How old is too old

Chinas right (again) get hooked up with thermo king or carrier and learn the APU trade also.

 

Thank y’all I wanna do anything I can to distinguish myself from the competition and then one day open my own shop

 

I went back to mechanic school at age 45. Fixed transit buses for 8 1/2 years,then got sick of the b.s. and went back on the road.

I would've liked to do reefer work, but I can't seem to break into that sector, yet. Good luck.

 

One refrigerated trucking company I worked for, the refrigerated trailers had Isuzu diesel engines.

 

I am far from being a mechanic and a lot closer to being an old man but I used to do most of the maintenance on my truck and all of our trailers. I know that after laying on a creeper under the truck or trailers for most of the day, I would really feel it in my shoulders. All that overhead wrenching can get to you...

 

Get into heavy equipment. I know this will sound backwards but its actually a lot easier on the body. That and the fact you don't have salt water dripping all over you 6 months a year.

 

As you can see by the photos, reefer unit mechanics stand up while working on those small diesel engines.

 

Hey! I've got more than a decade on him. What are you trying to say?
Whippersnappers

 

we've already got you a room reserved at the shady acres retirement center

 

No thank you!
I'll just die in my sleeper.
Those retirement homes are Covid19 petri dishes right now.