FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

Harrisonville just outgrew itself. That whole dirt area where they're putting trailers now used to be all grass with a small dirt road that ran alongside the building a few years ago. Once they ran out of room in the main lot they decided that real estate was going to waste and started parking trailers there.

 

Gassing up the car and about to hit the road on this rainy Saturday for my 2 week stay in Michigan. Going into the UP through the back door by way of Sioux City and Minneapolis. Driving due north on 81 for a few hours before meandering my way east

 

I once had a bad starter on a KW I owned that I didn't replace for almost a month and a half. If I shut it down, I just made sure I was parked on a slight hill, so I could release the brakes and roll start it.

 

They definitely are a pia to change, and sometimes tap. I had a driver pull start me with his bob tail once, (I was bob tail) I didn’t shut that truck off until I got it back to Wichita and in a shop bay at Bruenger.

Boss man yelled about the fuel mileage dropping, but then realized how much of a tow and shop bill i saved him. I tried to pay the driver who pull started me $50 but he wouldn’t hear of it. Miss those days.

 

Yeah, those days are a few and far between anymore… Hell, I remember 20 plus years ago when I started I broke down on the interstate south of Dallas late at night. I had several drivers stop in the middle of the night and come knock on the truck and ask if I was OK… Are you sure you don’t see that good deed anymore

 

No you sure don’t. The last few times I broke down I can count the number of times I was asked if I was okay or someone stopped and asked if they could help me fix whatever was wrong.

I make it a point to at least ask if a driver is okay, and will sometimes pull up and help if they aren’t.

 

view from hotel room and Mighty Mac

 

feels great to be able to drive on an interstate for a reasonable distance and not have to deal with the white Volvo mafia, Chicago special Freightliners, or the Amazon brigade