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Touring season (concert) is about to begin. I am currently waiting for a tour assignment. Until then, we do production (one off) runs and regular truckload. This flavor of trucking is definitely interesting and challenging (zero fail rate)

Interesting. When does touring season tend to start, Rolling Thunder? Sorry, I'm going to ask a couple of questions that have obvious answers to you:

What's a production or one off run? What's regular truckload? Why does this kind of job have a zero fail rate? Do you mean that, basically, if you miss a deadline the concert/band/etc is screwed?

Thanks!

-Seyth

Brett,

Both cool ideas! The Christmas tree might be too time sensitive for me to wait on, but I like where your head's at.

-S

Hey All,

I'm the Senior Editor for Autoblog.com, an automotive news and reviews site:

www.autoblog.com

http://www.autoblog.com/bloggers/seyth-miersma/

Last year I kicked off a series about working vehicles, and the people that drive them, called Driven To Work. Since the very idea of the series was born, I've known that I wanted to do an installment featuring some kind of "Big Rig" and driver. The problem, such as it is, is narrowing down the focus in terms of vehicle, cargo, location, company, and/or individual driver. As you all no doubt know, there's a lot of variety in the industry.

Stories about truckers and trucks are fairly common, so I'd really like to be able to focus on someone that drives either a unique kind of rig, or hauls some very unique cargo.

So here's my question for the community: where should I start? Locations can really be anywhere in the U.S. – though I'm based in Michigan so closer to home would always be some help. What's the most interesting, or most dangerous, or most prestigious, etc., job you've either heard of or have had? I'd love ideas or contact information for any and all of them, if you're willing to help a writer out.

Thanks in advance for your help, and for indulging the slightly non-standard post in your very active forums.

-Seyth seyth.miersma@autoblog.com