United Road

As with any car haul company, you are going to get different results from different terminals. United Road has had some turnover in senior management, but the guys I load next to in New York seem happy and have been the same faces for a while now. I can't answer you specific hometime questions, never worked for United Road. You may want to take some time on you day off and head to a spot near the yard and try to catch one of their drivers.

If nothing else, it will get you the training and experience you need to enter the car haul world and maybe step into a better gig at one of the union companies. Marysville should keep you busy enough, and with a little time you should be back to making what you are used to making now. Good luck.

 

I left a good paying job about 5 years ago to get into carhaul for various reasons. The biggest reason was because I had always looked at carhauler's going down the road and I thought I would like to do that. Fast forward 5 years and I am a carhaul owner op. I love my job, my schedule, my rig, my home time, my income and on and on and on. It sucked at first. I also spoke with United Road before Jack Cooper called. The 2 weeks out is what they told me and it just wasn't for me. I need to be home every weekend. That said they seem to run a good company from the interactions I have had with their drivers. You probably will like car hauling, but probably not at the beginning.

 

I wasn't trying to steer you towards or away from being an owner op. I was trying to prepare you for a possible pay cut and harder job that you may hate initially. But if you can and will hang in there it should be a pay raise and a job you will most likely enjoy, but only after you master it. Good luck!