An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

I worked for PAM when I first started out and that happened a lot on our Laredo and El Paso runs.

 

There were at least 25 tornados last night between tx, ok, and ar.

 

My first week of driving, This happened. I was with FFE, out of Lancaster, TX right down the road on old Huston school rd.

A bare few months later This ####ing happened.

And then I got caught in one of the worst blizzards in 20 years around Christmas, with a truck that didn't idle, and a bunk heater that only worked for 3 hours at a time.

That was just the first year. And I'm still here! I even went through that derecho a few years back. I've seen a lot of tornados, have been part of hurricane recovery, shout out to Lake Charles for not fixing their god ###### roads.

I'm a lucky man, and even luckier trucker. Those are just some of the things we have to go through. So I can relate. This job ain't for the faint of heart.

 

I remember watching those schneider trailers flying through the air on the news while at the restaurant in big cabin eatting.

 

Is gasoline and diesel still expensive there?

 

Dropped the trailer at the customer yesterday afternoon and bobtailed north to do my reset. It was 103 in the lot when I parked and to my surprise, my truck idled for quite sometime. As soon as it cooled down to 101 on the dash it shut off. When I first got the truck it would not idle, even when the dash showed 115. I know they can set a mileage limit before certain features are active, I saw that on the spec/order sheet. Or maybe it was a fluke.

In the morning I’ll head back to the customer and unload/reload for Fort Worth. Then Canada once more before I head home for two weeks.