showdog
Active Member
Some of you on here already know (DragginH, Raywood, Knotso) but to the rest of you that I have met and have yet to meet:
As of this past Friday I'm no longer with Big Dog. I have had a few generous offers from other companies in the motorcycle business but after a weekend of soul searching I have decided to leave the bike industry completely.
I have several offers outside the business and I think at this time I'm going to take a couple of weeks for myself (and my family) and then I will be joining a company out of Texas transporting heavy equipment and wind generator blades. I have many years experience driving heavy-haul equipment and pulling 125'+ long trailers transporting bridge beams. With the new field of wind energy exploding the companies moving the equipment for them are in desperate need of drivers and even more so drivers with experience pulling rear-steerable trailers which I have. Combine that with my 19 years driving and never having an accident or moving violation and they are making me some stupid-money offers.
Beginning Monday the 10th I will double my income and be driving during the day and sleeping at night. No a bad gig. I will however not be home much but if I do this for three years and take the extra income and apply it towards debt we will be totally debt free at the end of that time. Then I can play without worrying so much.
I have offers from other companies but some of them are heavy into construction materials and I just don't see the current state of the economy doing them any favors. The company I decided to accept the offer from is into Oil & Gas production equipment and Wind Energy and right now those markets are booming. Recession proof - not hardly but they should not see the slow-down as severly as companies who rely on building materials.
I will keep my account here and check in from time to time but not working at Big Dog, I'm no longer a Big Dog rider. As some of you already know, I'm one of those annoying squid's on a crotch rocket but hopefully you all will still let me post here from time to time.
As of this past Friday I'm no longer with Big Dog. I have had a few generous offers from other companies in the motorcycle business but after a weekend of soul searching I have decided to leave the bike industry completely.
I have several offers outside the business and I think at this time I'm going to take a couple of weeks for myself (and my family) and then I will be joining a company out of Texas transporting heavy equipment and wind generator blades. I have many years experience driving heavy-haul equipment and pulling 125'+ long trailers transporting bridge beams. With the new field of wind energy exploding the companies moving the equipment for them are in desperate need of drivers and even more so drivers with experience pulling rear-steerable trailers which I have. Combine that with my 19 years driving and never having an accident or moving violation and they are making me some stupid-money offers.
Beginning Monday the 10th I will double my income and be driving during the day and sleeping at night. No a bad gig. I will however not be home much but if I do this for three years and take the extra income and apply it towards debt we will be totally debt free at the end of that time. Then I can play without worrying so much.
I have offers from other companies but some of them are heavy into construction materials and I just don't see the current state of the economy doing them any favors. The company I decided to accept the offer from is into Oil & Gas production equipment and Wind Energy and right now those markets are booming. Recession proof - not hardly but they should not see the slow-down as severly as companies who rely on building materials.
I will keep my account here and check in from time to time but not working at Big Dog, I'm no longer a Big Dog rider. As some of you already know, I'm one of those annoying squid's on a crotch rocket but hopefully you all will still let me post here from time to time.
You already know how I feel about this. 
