FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

Wound up dropping the Honey load in Fremont. Ran out of hours a couple short in spite of driving the truck like a rented mule.I just lost too much time in SoCal. Left Sidney, NE about 10:40 last night and pulled into FCC about a quarter after 6 this morning with 4 minutes left on the meter. Would only get a little under 7 hours tomorrow so I'm staying put til early Wednesday morning so I can roll with 70 instead of the recap merry go round. Got the truck serviced and did laundry so I have gotten some items off the to do list.

 

The great P.T. Barnum said “There’s a sucker born every minute”. He was right.

 

Had a surprise this morning, guy from the shop came out to grab my truck. I guess they are replacing the APU brackets on the Aspen units so I am going to be out of the truck for a while while they take the APU off and remount it. Good to have it done if it needs doing. I wish I 'd known they were doing that I'd have shut it off when I got up this morning so it wouldn't be hot when they are working on it.

 

Anyone been to Kelly’s Kawasaki in Richmond IN? Satellite view says it might be “fun”.

 

Much earlier than expected but I'll be trading in one of my cars on a 2020 Toyota Camry with 20k miles.

I dug around the internet until I found one I wanted that met my criteria. It's a base LE non-hybrid in Supersonic Red. It has the features I want with none of the crap i don't. A 2.5l 4 cylinder engine that's not turbocharged, an actual key to start the car with, cloth seats (personal preference), and none of that auto start/stop bs which i loathe with a burning passion

28 city/39 highway for fuel mileage. The car gets better mpg in town than any of my current cars on the highway. I strongly considered a Hybrid one but almost 40 mpg is pretty darn good out of a naturally aspirated motor. Plus no battery to worry about replacing when it inevitably needs replaced somewhere down the line

And it was made in the good ol' US of A down in Georgetown, KY

I'll post pics when I get the car

 

I lied about the color. Apparently it's called Ruby Flare Pearl

Edit: it also comes with a physical parking brake. Not one of those electronic crappers

 

I think you will end up missing the land yacht ride.

 

that's why I'll still own 1

plus I still have my 75 Cadillac. That's not a land yacht though. That's like piloting a #### battleship down the street. The suspension is so floaty it's ridiculous. You ain't feeling any bumps in that thing

 

I'm sorry. Someone your size fitting in a Camery? This is what I pictured when I read that

 

I actually found a Camry at a local stealership and asked if I could sit in it. It was surprisingly pretty roomy. Leg room is pretty good although there could be just a tiny bit more headroom. But i didn't want to spend the time finely adjusting the seat so I'm sure i could fit a bit better. The company has a Malibu, a Buick of some such, and two vans we drivers can tool around in. Guess which two i fit in a lot better