Name: Chris
City, State: New Derry, Pennsylvania
Question: Do a lot of people ask to see the cars when you make stops?

ANSWER: No, not really. They just ask if the cars are on there. But other than that they just like to see the trailer. They like knowing that the car is in there but they just want to see the tractor trailer. That's mostly what they ask for.

Name: Chris
City, State: West Monroe, Louisiana
Question: On trips to California, how many different people ride with you to help you drive since the DOT regulates how many hours you can drive?

ANSWER: There are two of us. That's all you really need if you get one guy driving. You have to spend so many hours in the bunk. We normally take turns. If you do that all the way to California, if you take your time and take your turn like you should then it works out fine.

Name: Ted
City, State: Syracuse, New York
Question: As a transporter, it seems that you would be away from family longer than any other team member. How difficult is the NASCAR grind on family life?

ANSWER: You know it's not easy but there are other types of racing that are a lot worse than we have it. There are Indy cars for instance, they stay gone three, four, five months at a time as to where we get to go home every week. Being a primary transport driver, we usually don't have to do the test sessions that the other guys have to do. So you know it's not worse than anybody else really. I'd say I have one of the easier schedules than other guys who do this job.

Name: Virginia
City, State: Millington, Michigan
Question: Which of the jobs that you do is your favorite and most fun to you?

ANSWER: I do think it is driving to the races. It's by far not the easiest but it's also not the hardest. But that is my favorite. You get to talk to a lot of people and you get to meet a lot of people. The pride of knowing that you're hauling one of the nicest and classiest vehicles to the race track is a pleasure.

Name: Peter
City, State: Bayonne, New Jersey
Question: How many miles do you log yearly and do you go back to the shop after every race and continue on to the next track or is there more than one hauler?

ANSWER: We usually log probably about 65,000 miles a year. We have a test truck that does the tests and if we didn't have that we'd probably log 90,000 miles a year. So as it stands we usually go 65,000 which is by no means that long because there are a lot of trucks that log a lot more miles than we do and stay gone a lot longer. But 65,000 is a fair number.

Name: Jeffrey
City, State: Cambridge, Maryland
Question: What qualifications do you need to drive a NASCAR transporter?

ANSWER: Well you've got to be qualified obviously to drive the truck first and foremost. You have to be good at what you do but you also have to know something about cars, electronics, cooking and something about watching kids. You have to know a little bit about everything but your main job is getting the truck to and from the track.

Name: Gary
City, State: Tehachapi, California
Question: Hey Rick, great job you have. I can get into that because I'm a feeder driver for UPS and I go to Little Rock, Arkansas every week and love to drive. Do you team drive to specific locations?

ANSWER: Obviously anything where the team gives me more than a day to get to, or more than 11 hours, you have to have someone else with you. Obviously the West Coast and Texas are such places but anything west of Texas would be locations where we need two drivers. There are a couple times like to New Hampshire where you need two drivers but it depends on what your schedule is. If they give you plenty of time then you can get there. Other than that though we team drive to West Coast trips.

Name: Michael
City, State: Sunnyvale, California
Question: Do you have to fill out a driver's log for the Department of Transportation?

ANSWER: I fill out a driver's log for the company. That way, if there's any requests by the department of transportation or the federal government, we show any kind of proof of what we do and how we do it and how long we drive, then we're OK. It's basically an audit that the DOT does. So as long as I have all my ducks in a row then the company has everything that they need. And they don't do the audits often so it is usually OK.

Name: George
City, State: Toledo, Ohio
Question: How many days a week are you away from home and are you allowed to take your wife along on the road?

ANSWER: Usually on a normal weekend, I will leave on Thursdays and get back either late Sunday night or early Monday morning. I don't usually take my wife because she's been in racing long enough to know that this is a job and she doesn't like to get in the way. We both know that when she's here we both don't have time to spend a great deal of time together except maybe after the garage closes and that's like at seven at night. So there's not a whole lot of time for that.

Name: Holly
City, State: Browns Mills, New Jersey
Question: How would one go about trying to get a job with NASCAR as a transporter driver?

ANSWER: In order to get a job as a transport driver I would start, if you have short track racing experience, that's the way to start. If you have no racing background whatsoever I would suggest you start by going to like a racing souvenir type hauler or show car program. If you want to just jump into racing, it's very hard to do. There aren't that many truck driver jobs and it would be hard to just jump into one.

Name: Randy
City, State: Las Vegas, Nevada
Question: What is your schedule like during the race season?

ANSWER: If I get back on Sunday night I will have my co-driver at the shop and is very capable of turning my truck around which means unloading and reloading for the next race. He does that for me on Mondays so I can take at least Monday off. I'll be back to work on Tuesday and work normal hours Tuesday and Wednesday and then Thursday, depending on what time my cars are ready, I'll be ready to leave.