Does your daily job have anything to do with the transportation industry?

Does you daily job have anything to do with the transportation industry? Not talking to the mechanics, body men, or shop owners. I want to hear from the guys who build cars at night that their work is tied to the transportation industry in some weird way.

Well, I design textile and composite cutting machines. The machines that I design are simular to a CNC machine. Here are just a few of the more memorable customers who use the machines I design.


Roush racing, composit industries.
http://www.roushperformance.com/roushtv.shtml
Select Advanced Composits and watch them use one of the machines I helped design cut the pieces to make light weight Carbon Fiber products.

Macs antique auto parts.
http://www.macsautoparts.com/
Macs uses the machines to cut the interior kits they sell.

Plasan industries.
http://www.plasansasa.com/
Plasan uses one of my latest machine designs to cut armor for Military and personal vehicles.
They also make personal body armor with the machines.
Now they are making body panels for the new Z06 corvettes.

Factory Five Racing.
http://www.factoryfive.com/galleries.html
Use the machines to cut body panels, interior panels and carpets.

German Auto Tops, North Hollywood Ca.
http://www.macraesbluebook.com/Search/company.cfm?company=648835
They make vert tops and interiors.


The list goes on and on.

For a job that has nothing to do with the automotive industry I sure do get to meat and speak with alot of great folks that do. Everyday is an adventure around here. I guess I can say I heart my job.

 

I finish weld dry bulk tankers for semis. Tough work inside, gets really hot.

 

Paving highways, streets and freeways

 

I fix folks who can't keep the shiny side up.

Doc.

 

I was an auto mechanic for about twelve years, including a five yeasr stint as a 'GSE" ground support equipment mechanic for ATA airline. Now I am a carman[rail car mechanic] for the BNSF railroad.

 

I sell paint for bridges and paint for the roadways

 

Designing streets, highways and freeways.

 

service locomotive's before they go out on a haul

 

i own a towing company that comes and gives you the bad news, either its totaled, broke down and has to go to a shop, impounded or we found it

 

I work for a Steel Rule Die co. We make the dies that cut the material for car/truck interiors. We used to make dies that went right to the auto plants but several years ago that all got "outsourced". we now make the same dies for the companies that now make the parts for the car companies. We used to just make dies for American brands, but now we make them for ALL the car companies. The industry is dying here in the States, at least 90% of what we make goes right to Mexico, it's hard to compete with $2.40 an hour labor. I'm retiring in June if we make it that long, we went from 75 employees and two shifts to 22 employees on one shift working 35 hrs a week now. It's truely a global market now; the company I work for is Canadian, we build dies in the U.S. that get shipped to Mexico to cut parts for Japanese cars........

 

Assistant Service Manager at a Mazda dealership. This means dealing with the customers not the vehicles which I think is harder on most days!

 

I set up test cells, and run tests on experimental catalytic converters, now focusing on light duty diesel engines.

 

i work at a towing company.

 

My dad and I sell fasteners to Body Shops

 

oversee the field and lab operations for an inspection company,we specialize in what eventually becomes bunkers for ships. the lab that does quality control and the field does the loss control.

so, in a sense, we approve the oomph that keeps it all moving.

 

We make the filament used in vinyl truck seats.

 

stupid question, but I thought the main by product of diesel engines would be PM 2.5, and SOx. Don't cat's work mostly on NOx emissions?

 

I work in the new products design department of a die-cast toy and model manufacturer. We make the "giveaway" cars for press previews (e.g. OT 2008 Challenger SRT8) as well as for retail stores. I recommend new styles to make, work out details like paint color and features and shepherd the tooling models and samples through the approval process by the manufacturers. Our own giveaway car this year at the New York Toy Fair was a 1929 Model A rod.

 

I'm a hired gun working at GM on the automotive hydrogen fuel cell program. Analytical microscopist/materials development/manufacturing problem solver. Think Quincy or CSI without the dead people.

-Bigchief.

 

i ride locomotives for the long haul!

 

Well, currently I pay myself to drive an old 60's beater around the country...so I s'pose I kinda "work" in the transportation industry!! (Selling cars, trucks, motorcycles and parts to foot the bill!!)

 

I sell truck parts to keep the trucks going that move all ya'lls stuff around

 

I work (drive truck, and weld/braze) for a small tubing company, that makes dipsticks, brake lines, coolant lines, and emisions components for GM, Chrysler, and Ford. So if your new car leaks fluids... it must be one of our competitors parts.

 

I drive a train....

 

I'm in the Hauling Bizzness!!! I build engines that Haul-Ass>>>>.

 

Work at Freightliner Truck Manufacturing Plant. Been slow since last August, lots of weeks off on unemployment. Will only be working 4 days a week for a month or so.

 

Manager of Quality Assurance for a commercial airline

 

High speed aluminunm tubing. Glorified bus driver.

 

I haul cars ,people, and freight on ferry boats to an island in Lake Erie

 

I'm a wrench in an old style 3 bay Sunoco service station..