MILWAUKEE — "It's the mystery of them [that] no car or truck is the same," Milwaukee man Carlos Minor says.
That mystery is what inspired Carlos Minor to start working on cars and just like each car is unique, so are the people who come to your aid when you get stuck on the side of the road.
Minor, 40, is paying his success forward. He grew up here on Center Street and 16th in the inner city of Milwaukee, a boy determined not to become a statistic.
"21, I always felt like I was a middle aged as a black male, you weren't supposed to make it to twenty-one, unless you were probably in prison, or died," he says.
Unlike many of his friends he grew up with, Carlos never went to jail. That's where this story begins: With a man in the business of giving people hope.
Carlos started Minor Roadside Assistance five years ago.
"The people I look to hire that I like to hire people or the ones many consider unhireable, whether it's people who want to record or not just the greatest background from maybe choices they made as a young adult or even sometimes as a kid," he says.
But, it was a chance encounter 10 years ago on Christmas Eve is where it all started. Carlos called for road-side assistance after locking his keys in his car and that's when he met his mentor, Erick Whitehead.
"I came out, I met Carlos, he was a great guy and I just so happened to be looking for a new driver at the time," says Whitehead.
"I do recall locking myself out in the car so when he came it was like the perfect opportunity to ask the question how do you get to this industry," says Minor.
"I just knew from the beginning that he was gonna thrive at what we were doing," says Whitehead.
Now, Carlos is paying his success forward and offering all hard-working people a second chance and an opportunity to provide for their families.
Visit www.minorroadsideassistance.com for more.