What was your job before trucking? And After?

I spent all of my adult life working in the Automotive Manufacturing field as a Graphic Designer of paint schemes for the glass. 20 years working for GM and the last 10 for Ford. Really got tired of the ups and downs in the industry, besides with all the companies downsizing an old man just couldn't compete with the young ones out there. I watched trucks come in and out of the plants for years and after speaking with a few drivers I decided to throw my hat out there and see where I could go.

 

Im not into trucking yet, but planing to by summer.

In the past I worked at a full service gas station or two during high school. Worked at the International Harvester dealership in parts. Worked at another parts house as well.

Spent 20 years at the local newspaper in maintenance. Repaired all of the production equipment.

Just hired on at WalMart p/t for a little extra gas money to suppliment my unemployment check. WM is actually a pretty good job so far.

In 2001 I went to school and got an A&P license hoping to go to work at one of the airlines. 9-11 happened about 3 weeks after I started. I stuck with it and got my license but have never used it.

 

I started trucking when I was 18 years old after I got a medical discharge from the Army for a bad left knee. I figured with a medical discharge I had no hope of becoming a Police Officer. My father and all his brothers have been truck drivers and I grew up around trucks,so I began trucking. In Nov. 1999 I became a Volunteer with the Riverside County Sheriff in California and went thrugh the Reserve Academy and became a Reserve Deputy Sheriff. I moved to Oklahoma in 2004 and became a Oklahoma Reserve Deputy Sheriff. I got the honor of being on the hit t.v. show " Trick my Truck" on Feb. 17,2007. My truck took second place at the Great American Truck Show in Dallas Texas in Aug. 2007. On July 13,2008 I sold my truck for a full time job in Law Enforcement not knowing I would go broke haha So now I'm again a Owner Op but I'm still a Reserve Deputy Sheriff and I'm also a Part Time Police Officer. I love Law Enforcement and wish it paid more here in Oklahoma.

 

Well I spent several years as a high dollar giggilo, then I was a boy toy for wealthy women, then got bored and decided I hated making all that money, having wealthy women buy me things and take me places and decided become a lowly workign stiff.

 

Hmmm well I quit high school to work in the oil fields in ND, then military for a few years, KCMO a couple years in a warehouse, back to the oil fields, moved back to CA couldnt get on any rigs there so started driving a 2-ton flatbed delivering cases and drums of oil with no lift gate, that was an experience. Sold house and was a bum for a year then went to driving school and learnt how to drive real trucks

 

Heating and air conditioning installer...it was taking its toll on my back and knees, had to get out of it.

 

gm of a pizza store in fresno, california. had been working there since i was 19. started as a delivery driver making minimum wage plus tips. i worked my ### off through the ranks. near the end, the store owners asked if i was interested in buying the store. i declined the offer. after i left, most of the staff also left. i was the glue that held it all together. i cared about my people and they knew it. when crap happened, i backed up the drivers and the rest of my crew, and i never put myself in a position where i could take from them.

 

dockworker
security guard
grocery stores when i was in high school

 

I ran the docks in a warehouse, now I'm looking at getting off the road for good......leaning towards construction or local dump truck work..

 

Law enforcement for 30 years (retired), short stint in OTR, now in security. There is job security in security!