Anyone rolling in a 589 yet?

Little update

my truck got totaled out, I bought it back, loosened everything and did some pulling and got the horn back straight, new rad support bracket 1 u joint in the column, steering box/drag/pitman arm, cross tube, 2 springs and a steer tire and she is Atleast road worthy again, I’m not fixing the hood right now, I put the rock guards on under the head lights (which I hate) and will just deal with all the cracks for atleast the winter, hood price was 12k all done and I’ll probably have 12 into the front end now, which was of course all new 2 years ago.

went to pick up my new bumper today and Pete in bow NH had a 589 out front with the 74” bunk so I pulled in to poke around, it was a heavy spec short hood so nothing I wanted and figured that would keep me away from an impulse buy, as I spun in the seat and crouched to go into the bunk the gf asks WTF are you doing? So I awkwardly turn to ask what and realize… I can pretty much stand up in the drivers seat, maybe I’m just getting old but holy hell was it nice to be able to move around as I’ve got the small hole 60” on mine, I need to get back to work and I’ve been trying to buy a new trailer for over a year now so those are definitely priorities, but there is going to be a 589 in my future at some point before I take the old w9 back down to do body work and push her back to spare truck, (which I have also been wanting)

Hoping to load next Friday, I sprained my left hand and bruised the tendon by the base of my pinky from what I would guess was death gripping the wheel during the accident, nothing broken but I have limited grip before it gets painful, specialist said it could take a few months to heal, guess I’ll just have to load a little lighter so I don’t have to stack cases

also I changed insurance companies, I about cried when they came back with a 21k quote, progressive sent me a renewal for 54k last week, fck them

 

bumping thread because I'm still curious if anyone is in fact rolling in a 589 yet and how they like it,

I wound up missing 9 weeks, we got the frame squared up, took an alignment and i haven't had any weird tire ware, hood is still cracked to hell, but ive got some corrosion spots starting to pop up (not from the accident) so I need to buy something else to work with while I work on this one, I don't remember what I shared for info so far in this thread but the driver of the other vehicle did not have a license and "stole" her sisters car, after consulting with an attorney we confirmed that she had nothing, minimum wage job, no property etc., oh and this was the second time she had done this....

averaging out the 9 weeks before and the 9 weeks after the accident we came up with about $5900 a week TTT. Insurance said not really their problem at first but offered a little over 20k after some back and forth. Lawyer said even if we go to court, more than likely, I will never collect anything from her anyway. Just signed everything and I should be getting a check sometime in the next week, 14 months later.....

Video attached as promised

 

she still hit pretty good, I had em locked up so I was down pretty good but she was probably still doing 40, luckily I only had 10 boards on, there’s a drop off into those trees and I probably would of collected the suv behind her too and gone down the cliff,

 

I was going down hill and road pitches to the right, drives started coming around