Should I buy a new Kenworth???

My old Pete sitting beside a Volvo. No comparison on room. If a fella was to take a 6 month gig..........

 

Oregon was interesting to tell you the truth.

Many times FFE send us towards the seacoast to some tiny tiny little village with a BIG BIG BIG growing nursery shipping east coast. BIG TIME plants, flowers, crops etc. I am floored by the beauty, bountiful and essentially the garden of Eden hiding in that Willamette Valley.

It's kind of hard to get into some of those places, here we are with a wide 18 wheeler and 53 foot on tiny two lanes with trees scraping our sleeper roof and exhaust stack.

You cannot miss your turn into the shipper. We did that once. Ran into a T intersection and sat there a minute left, right or circle back. We had our 4 ways on fixing to do something and all those locals with the cars they actually stopped dead right where I would love them to be and I did a big circle across that intersection to get back.

If I did that on the east coast people would nail me to a tree and leave me. But those folks were really good around big trucks. It's a little scary when they understand what is going through my mind trying to get to that particular nursery behind us. They are not stupid.

 

Some folks are surprised when I tell them I do not want to sit still so long that I could justify a big studio.....

I'm more of a run a load and get my butt back home kinda guy.

Heck I've considered getting a day cab ( or coffin sleeper to store gear and be a hiding hole) and just rent hotel rooms. 100 nights per year in a hotel would be cheaper than a truck mounted tiny house.

 

Something for you to keep in the back recesses of your brain...... ( not the dark scary side... The other side).

Can't find anything official on the web. Was up at the Lakewood Kenworth Dealer a couple of months back. Folks from Pape were touring the Kenworth Northwest locations. Service manager said they were being bought.

 

Your one new age

 

If you don't think experience matters out here then you might be in the wrong line of work thats the problem with this new age of trucking every one is straight self-centered it's all about them there king #### of the road and quite frankly your a rude sob

 

Back when trucking was trucking it was a brotherhood out here everyone treated people with respect and helped each other and when there was a disagreement they kicked the dust up but afterwards they shook hands and and bought a round now there's just these liberal corporate America ##### like u