Back on the road. Lease purchase with JB Hunt

You can't make this stuff up: PETA pressured Nabisco into changing the picture on the box of animal crackers because they were depicted in cages..which is cruel and unnatural.

 

I look forward to annual groping..just because...

 

Dave I get 7.5 when heavy as much as 10 hauling potato chips. It is doing funky things with engine braking so probably something bad is waiting to happen but I'm just shutting my eyes and turning the radio up. One thing driving me nuts is if I sit and idle then it is impossible to slow transmission down enough to slip gently into gear for take off. I hate abusing transmission but I don't know what it's problem is. Other than that its plenty smooth and engine has been tearing those hills up since last oil change.

 

So guess I better get it looked at. Maybe only an adjustment? Heavy sigh. I hate to let anybody even get near it for fear it will magically balloon into a parade of fools. Seems like all the shops in dfw are a bunch of clowns.

 

Had to drive thru Atlanta twice yesterday. That was tiring. Later I headed up to Wal-Mart dc in Shelbyville nc. Now I always take 74 to get there but for some reason the GPS in my truck sent me on a wild goose chase out in the hills and valleys and around robin hoods barn. I thought what the ? Maybe construction has created low clearance or something but I saw nary another truck the whole freakin' 40 (!) Miles and as I was approaching the dc from the north here came a whole parade of trucks from the usual route. So I wonder if I was on candid camera... I was going to say punked but I'm not sure how net nanny will react.