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Message:: [QUOTE="High Stepper, post: 12439730, member: 333511"]Back in the 90's I answered an ad in the truck paper. It was a lease purchase running for McKesson. The truck was a Dick Simon FLD with a K19 Cummins, and the Eaton equivalent of a two speed power glide transmission. The schedule was so tight that even time spent shifting could compromise the load so they developed the transmission just for Mckesson. That K19 would do rolling burnouts going up Monteagle and still get 7.5 mpg. The truck came complete with IV bags filled with sweet tea mounted overhead and a sackful of Krystals every trip. The loads paid well, but there was a caveat, it was a team lease. One driver had to man the mini-gun in the trailer to protect the freight at all times. That's where I met [USER=337863]@Jubal Early Times[/USER]. We ran the ammunition belt through the man door on the front of the van trailer into the cab. Since we were often ambushed, and he would get hungry during a shootout, i would place the Krystals on the belt to feed him as he fired rounds at would be thieves. The sweet tea was pto driven to his IV for hydration. I won't brag and say how much we made back then, but Jubal had a time share in Branson and front row seats to the Hatfields and McCoy's show.[/QUOTE]