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The Driver Success Podcast Interview With Jim Davis AKA Trucker Jim on YouTube

January 31, 2017

 INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTMoses: Alright thank you everyone this is Moses here diver success, and I am really excited today to be having Jim Mr. Davis is on the line with us and his story he is going to tell it, he is my very first guest that I have on the line so Jim I thank you so, so much for doing this. Actually, I had a guess that I was supposed to interview before you but what happened is that he got an emergency and we had to reschedule that interview so you are going to be the very first, you are the very first guest we have.Jim: Just not your first choice but it still an honor Moses.Moses: You are, actually what I did is I sent out emails and depending on how schedules were working out, so what happens that his schedule workout he was going to be the first and then you the second but now you are the first. And I am sure this is not going to be the very last one I'm sure we will have you back again as we get to know each other.But the way I got to know Jim is through YouTube I saw your videos on YouTube and I thought they were interesting I reached out to you and I just wanted to get to know you and have you share your story. And so we haven't really gotten to know each other so as I get to know you we as the community are going to get to know you.So let's start from there just tell us about yourself without talking about Trucking we just want to know you on a personal level, just share with us whatever you want us to know whether you start with your parents your childhood it's all up to you.Jim: Yes, well I grew up in upstate South Carolina not exactly from a small a small town because I lived out in the country but I went to school in a small town that it didn't even have a red light it was so small. But I always had the adventurous type spirit grew up doing you know some hunting and fishing with my father, a lot of camping out.Grandparents had a farm they had retired about the time I was starting school so my so my summer are always spent with them, and I will tell you they put me to work out in the big garden that they had. But after graduating high school it didn't take very long that I found myself in sales. I think my first sales job I ever had I was going door to door business to business selling $5 calculators, $7.50 home remedy books and a little bundle of children's books that was about a dolphin family.And I tell you I was hooked from there making cash every day and not staying in one spot and out meeting people I was hooked from day one. And after that I went into well I work my way up through that company eventually into the advertising division where we sell keypads door to door business to business which was basically a sheet of paper that we sold for $20.And I had a lot of success with that Moses I ended up working my way into management having my own location and it went well for a couple years until I decided to go up to Philadelphia to open a new office, and well my country boy charmed didn't really work as well in Philly as it did. Into Carolina so the business went under within a few months of that so I came back to the Carolinas sold cars for a while and then after I met my wife I never thought as a kid I would ever be an insurance agent but Lord knows that's what I went into, I guess I thought it would be good security in that and health insurance benefits and retirement and all of those things.And since I had a woman that was actually crazy enough to marry me and I spent 8 years as an insurance agent, three different companies all together each one was a step up to what I felt was a more prestigious company anyway. And well about 2 years ago I decided I didn't want to do that anymore I was tired of spending my Saturdays making phone calls setting up my appointments and just all the struggles and headaches that go