Bubba the tow-truck guy needs your vote

SEATTLE — Bubba Peters is on the hustle and wants your support.

Peters, you might remember, is the Seattle tow-truck driver we wrote about last year after he was named a semi-finalist in a “how-tough-is-your-job?” contest, sponsored by Cintas the uniform people, Carhartt Jeans and Ducks Unlimited.

The sponsors sought entries from across North America.

Stevens won their attention by relating the chilling details of how he worked 20 hours straight in a Seattle snowstorm to save two highway buses from falling over the side of an above-ground expressway.

The upshot was, as he says, “the most intense thing he ever experienced.”

Then this week, he was told he was among 12 finalists and could be one of two winners to get either a weekend duck hunt trip designed by Ducks Unlimited or a trip for two to the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series in 2011.

The winners will be chosen by online voting.

“Go to www.CarharttRental.com. Vote for number 9. That’s me,” Peters said.

He also said he is the only truck driver among the finalists; but in fact, one of the other entrants drives for a roofing company.

His name is John Irish. He’s number 6.

Thing is, they’re looking for two winners. We say vote for both. The voting continues through February.

Just visiting the site’s awesome because you can read true-life sagas about how tough some jobs really are.

And some of these guys make the crab fishermen on “Deadliest Catch” look like wusses.