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

Be in Reno tomorrow afternoon then a 34, well prob extended 34 til Monday because Im betting there be nothing picking up on a Sunday. I can live with 2700 miles for the week, only ever ask to try and hit 2500 at the very least weekly. Got 2 hrs detention this week too, supposed to anyway since gotta give two hrs before detention kicks in.

 

I hear from the Waffle House ladies that Doreen quit a couple weeks back.

 

Well, c'mon! Is that a "yay", or a "nay"? Inquiring minds want to know.....

 

Well, after a couple of false starts, they're moving me into truck 9353. For the non-Abileenies in the crowd, truck numbers that start with a "9" are lease-op/owner-op trucks. I have not moved into the world of leasing/owning my own truck, but the previous owner apparently couldn't make the payments and it reverted to Abilene.

It was either this or a 2020 team spec Volvo (which, I confess, did have a certain appeal). But the lure of the KW was too much. Has about 30k fewer miles on it than mine, despite being a year older. The fact that it's a 2019 may mean it's got the Allison transmission in it instead of the Eaton, and I do have fond memories of going uphill with that Allison in my first KW.

It's also brown, so that's going to take some getting used to.

Surprised they didn't put me in a new truck, and I'm going to be annoyed if they sell this one out from under me in 9 months.

 

Some folks pay a lot of money for that look “patina” consider yourself a trend setter

 

I don't see an issue.....