Exp Driver/recent left leg amputee needs automatic company!

John Veriha out of Marinette, WI has some autos have vans and flatbeds depending on your capabilities. Good Luck to you friend wish I had the name of the company I saw another guy with an amputated arm working his left are was amputated and he was hauling a refer unit up in Marinette.

 

If you're a first time buyer, I'm assuming that 10k is 25% down on a 40k truck. Just so you know I got a 40k truck asking price for 25k. Do yourself a favor and play hard to get. Dealers are dying to unload trucks. That would also bring your down payment to around 6k. Good luck!

 

New Century is based out of NJ and they have autos in their fleet I don't know if all are autos. You will not find better pay either.

 

big G also has autos and they are out of Tenn

 

well i have a friend who;s an O/O and he's been running mostly pete 379s all of his career, he has a FL columbia now and he hates it wiht a passion..lol..he wants anotheer 379 again...he also has an old 359 he's restoring. he can get into anything...he has even had cabovers and not ever had a problem or fallen...ya just have to get used to whatever ya gonna drive...it takes time but eventually u can climb into anything...

 

I'm not a truck driver, but I am an amputee. I found your post while searching on google and saw a fellow amputee in need of assistance. Heres some advice. Don't find a rig for the amputation. Get a prosthetic thats suited for the rigs. If you haven't found a good prosthetist yet thats the first thing you need to look for. My personal prosthetist is Teri at (please google Alababa Prosthetics and Orthotics). That may be too far for ya, but shes part of a network of highly trained/certified advanced prosthetists so she can probably give ya some names of good ones near you. Once you find a good one they'll make a custom piece of engineering that will fill the need for what your life demands not make your life fit the demands of the amputation. Don't give up friend. I drive a manual shift to work every day because I like too and my amputation wasn't going to stop me from doing it. (one last tip as far as driving goes once you've found a prosthetist have him/her talk with Teri about the shoeless prosthetic design aka silver leg/terminator foot that should jog her memory. I think you'll find that to be helpful for your situation. It's a custom design I had developed by Teri specifically for driving). Hope that all helpes ya.

 

sorefoot, I know this is an older post, but how does one go about getting an SPE for a bk(right) amputation, I want to drive again badly.

Pete in Texas