My personel Story in Trucking

    I thought I would take a minute to tell you what I have been doing for the last thirty years in the trucking industry. My first experiences driving a large vehicle were behind the wheel of a fire truck as a volunteer fireman. My interest in driving was really a result of me filling a departmental need. The fire company needed a driver and I was more than happy to take the required training courses and obtain the proper license. After I obtained my license, I drove dump trucks in the Washington DC area as I was not yet certified to drive combination vehicles.

With a desire to make more money, I went to a tractor trailer school in Delaware and received my Class A, better known now as a CDL (Commercial Drivers License). My first job was driving a tanker. I would drive to the piers in Baltimore to fill up on heating oils, which I would then deliver to Landover, MD. Typically, I made about three trips a night. This job seemed to start my career off.

Since heating oil is a seasonal job, my next job was hauling cars out of Baltimore, MD to various locations around the Eastern part of the country, including Pennsylvania and Ohio. Since then I have driven for many companies driving Reefers (trailer vans with refrigerator units), chemical tankers, van trailers for retail stores, flat beds and doubles (pulling two trailers at a time). I have also worked as a transportation manager for nine years, dispatching for a retail company from East to West Coast.