Abilene Motor Express....A New Place To Call Home

Reminds me of the first (and so far only) time I ever went paintballing.

It was years and years ago, when I was a teen and paintball was still fairly new. Little place out in the woods in Grand Prairie, TX.

Even then, despite the newness of the pastime, there were dudes out there in serious paintballing gear. Camo, masks, visors, ghillie suits, the whole bit.

Me? I wore an olive-drab Air Force work jacket that I borrowed from my uncle. It was heavy material and a size or two too big, and it was the middle of the Texas summer. That was my sole concession to blending in with my environment.

 

Oh, I don't mind cleaning up after cooking. I spent 18 years in the restaurant industry before becoming a trucker.

But I like to have an actual sink in which to clean my dishes. One not attached to a truck stop restroom where I've seen dudes wash their feet. And those are in short supply in my KW.

 

One end of the deer guard fell off while driving down the interstate. Made an awful noise. I pulled over and strapped it to the plastic to keep it off the road. Luckily, I was bobtail, so I found a Tractor Supply nearby.

I found the 3/4" pin that fell out, and bought a new hitch pin to retain it. Check your hitch pins, they should look like this.
Not like this, or some other way...

The one on the other side was installed wrong also.

You should install it like the lower pic, then push it over sideways so it looks like the upper pic, then it will stay in place.

Damage from dragging on the road.

 

Safety people would say that driver should catch that on a pretrip. They really have no clue.