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I worked 35 years for a union Freight Carrier that was next door to Complete Auto in Flint. I too made enough to play farmer and I have a decent retirement but I always envied them car haulers. I use to talk to allot of them on the CB on the road and got to know some of them. I had a chance to hire in in the seventies but my wife didn't really want me too. We knew a few drivers that fell off and got hurt pretty bad loading and unloading. Now days there is just a few drivers left there in Flint who haul the HD Chev pickups which is the only vehicle assembled in Flint now days. Most of the car haulers along with the freight carrier jobs have left Flint. In 1975 there were over 3,000 car haulers working out of our local union there alone.
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