Reply #40: Teamster Car Hauler?!?!? I was local 299 out of Detroit! [View All]

i say "was" cause i got green grass syndrome and left the union thinking i could do better as an owner operator.
I got screwed 2 weeks later and i couldn't get back in.
E & L Transport trained me on Open Racks but i had
lots of lift-gate experience before that. Left the
union gig and hauled POV's for 18 months
(FUCKING HATED IT!!) and worked for Fleetcar
for a while, coast to coast with lots of east coast.
Lots of Auction hauls too (Hate them as well)
Last gig i had was with a west coast outfit hauling
mostly Hondas, Nissans, Mitsubishi's, some VW's and
Subarus and occasional other loads mainly in CA,NV,AZ
& UT.
Non-union car haul SUCKS ASS and i kick myself for EVER
leaving the Union.

But.....here's what i am driving now:


And as for the OP'rs story of the asshole in the Little America,
i get asked all the time "How ya'll get a job drivin'
fer NASCAR? (I don't. I drive for a marketing firm
that does work for companies involved in it)
I usually just answer "A little bit of being in the
right place at the right time" But i feel like saying
to dolts like that "There isn't a Race Team manager
in his right mind that would hand over 2 million
dollars worth of race car transporter to a fucking
moron slob like you"