Getting Out

[chain binder]

Ladies and Gentlemen it has been fun,but a time comes for the fun to stop.I have been driving for 10 years,mainly flatbeds.The company I was driving for Carlisle is a great company.I hauled a load to their Fairbanks terminal about a month ago.While there I feel off the top of the load and tore myself up pretty good.I am healing,and will recover.Have an oppurtunity to start my own small business and I am taking it.Going to start a Mobile Oil Changing business.Will keep in touch.Everyone take care.MERRY Christmas

[Malaki86]

Best of luck to you in your new ventures. May the money roll in well for you.

[bentstrider]

As bad as your spill sounds, the mobile oil-change thing sounds like a good deal, especially up in those parts.

[Steel Horse Cowboy]

I have been contemplating either opening my own garage or selling the rig and buying a wrecker and doing that. This OTR is taking it's toll on me, and I can't seem to start a family since all the women leave cuz I'm never home.... LOL

[strawberryrhubarbpie]

I was born in Fairbanks, but I grew up in the interior of Alaska. They are experiencing some really cold weather right now. My dad lives there now, and my mom lives even further north. Anyway, I think that any time you have a chance to work for yourself, go for it. You might put in twice as many hours into it, but when it's yours it feels good. You are not pouring your heart and sweat into someone else's paycheck. Good luck!

[freebirdrfd]

Good luck with the new venture. I hope you heal quickly.

[chain binder]

Thanks everybody.I need to clear one thing up.The company I drove for had a terminal in Alaska.That was where I was when I fell off the load.I am from Texas.No way would I do mobile oil change in Alaska.I am healing faster than I figured.

[Luzon]

Ladies and Gentlemen it has been fun,but a time comes for the fun to stop.I have been driving for 10 years,mainly flatbeds.The company I was driving for Carlisle is a great company.I hauled a load to their Fairbanks terminal about a month ago.While there I feel off the top of the load and tore myself up pretty good.I am healing,and will recover.Have an oppurtunity to start my own small business and I am taking it.Going to start a Mobile Oil Changing business.Will keep in touch.Everyone take care.MERRY Christmas

I had a mobile oil change biz back between 95-97. I can be a great business if done right and you go after the right customers. Good luck.

[Steel Horse Cowboy]

Thanks everybody.I need to clear one thing up.The company I drove for had a terminal in Alaska.That was where I was when I fell off the load.I am from Texas.No way would I do mobile oil change in Alaska.I am healing faster than I figured.

Depends on where your AT in Texas..... I'd hate to be under a car and one of them gators comes up to meet you for some face time LOL. I had one outside my rig at the Ganado T/A a few months back. Just a little 2' guy, but I know MAMA was close by I'm sure. Seen em sunbathing along US59 and around 13' long they are hard to miss.

[GMAN]

Depends on where your AT in Texas..... I'd hate to be under a car and one of them gators comes up to meet you for some face time LOL. I had one outside my rig at the Ganado T/A a few months back. Just a little 2' guy, but I know MAMA was close by I'm sure. Seen em sunbathing along US59 and around 13' long they are hard to miss.

You can see gators along Alligator Alley in south Florida. I have seen a few that made their way on the interstate. I actually ran over one that had been killed once. That was a good bump, even though it wasn't all that large of an alligator.

[freebirdrfd]

Depends on where your AT in Texas..... I'd hate to be under a car and one of them gators comes up to meet you for some face time LOL. I had one outside my rig at the Ganado T/A a few months back. Just a little 2' guy, but I know MAMA was close by I'm sure. Seen em sunbathing along US59 and around 13' long they are hard to miss.

I never knew Texas has Alligators. Ya learn something new every day.

[chain binder]

We have alligators in far East Texas,along the Lousiana border.I live in central Texas around Austin.Hope to be up and running in about a month.

[Windwalker]

Yeah, but in central TX, you do have rattlesnakes. (You'd have a world record if you hit one that gave you a bump with the truck.) Here in FL, we do have much larger snakes. Burmese Pythons will grow to 30', and if you ran over one, you'd know it. Those long bodies full of muscles can do some pretty serious damage to the bottom of a truck. Worse than hitting a dog with a brand new car.

But, I seem to remember going by a billboard near Austin that said they had a 12' alligator on display... LIVE. I'd be willing to bet there are a couple around there, but you just don't have the swamp to keep them happy in the wild.

[freebirdrfd]

I am absolutely petrified of snakes. I hate them all.

[GMAN]

I am absolutely petrified of snakes. I hate them all.

You probably wouldn't like the rattlesnake roundup they have around Swee****er, TX.

[chain binder]

Been there,done that.Rattlesnake tastes like chicken.Last time I was in Swee****er I picked up sheetrock and that wasn't a real good experience either.Guess I could set up with my Mobile Oil trailer there and change oil during the round up.Probably not.