That was a pretty inspirational post, Hedon.
If you look into the real history of trucking (hint- it's not on the CB), you'll find that even in the "Golden Years" of trucking, truckers were complaining about the same things: price of fuel and tires, low rates, so on and so forth. Yeah, compared to now, things were much better, but hindsight is 20/20.
Ever hear the saying "The older I get, the better I was!" It's kinda like that.
Best of luck to you.
If everyone else jumped off a cliff...
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Could you shoot me the page number of that there rule? I need to be able to show it to Stace before we actually sign the check.
She did say that if it was too hideous we could budget for a paint job after a while. The sad thing is it's actually a really nice paint job from what we can tell in the pictures. The guy clearly put in a lot of work to get the whole thing in really good shape. It looks great with his tractor, but they are both a sort of a reddish copper (or rust) color and it is going to clash like crazy with the royal blue on our tractor.
I'll definitely post pics if we buy it... which we will if everything he's said turns out to be true... and you just know he's probably the only honest trucker out there selling a trailer right now. Sigh.JustSonny Thanks this. -
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Hurrah!!
The horribly ugly trailer was completely not what he said it was. Oh, it did have new paint and the brakes were almost new. The tires were no where near 90% and... wait for it... every single cross member was rusted to the point that they were crumbling. Some of them were so bad you could just poke on them and they literally fell apart.
So we said, "Thanks, but no thanks," and walked away. Well, actually we sort of ran away.
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