Where is everyone #5

@Rontonio I was here today (yesterday). Looked all over the place for you. Left with a D-6K. I have never seen so many different numbered excavators, 390, 349 336 329 325 320. What is the world coming to? When I started hauling equipment, Cat had 4 excavators in their line up. 215, 225, 235, 245.

 

Sure, rub it in a little more.

 

Wow, you are old !!!

 

Still raining... and cold, well on the chilly side anyways. And nothing good for breakfast...

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmm, yup I’m staying right here

 

Mornin’

 

(story time)

Buddy of mine calls me on the phone...

"Hey Six. I got a load going from Birmingham, Alabama to FairbanksAK.!"

$30000.

"What?"

$30000. That's how much I'd want to do that run.

"Oh..."

Oh???? How much did they get you for?

"Ummm, $9900..."

Are you insane? You're not going to make any money!

"I always wanted to go to Alaska. If I just make $100 on that load, I am satisfied."

$100 for two and a half weeks? Do you know the difference between a truck driver and a tourist?

"Ummm, no."

A truck driver get paid to travel. Tourists don't. You want to be a tourist, rent a car.

 

Bob I couldn't tell you, the farthest we're going to haul them is usually within a couple hundred miles. Once in a while a load will go from here to North Platte, NE about 600 miles.

Looking at the trucks yesterday it's a miracle they don't have breakdowns. Some of that stuff looks like it came from a junkyard. Not one name brand tire on anything and none of the tread patterns matched. Air leaks you could hear over idling trucks and a pen full of cows.

The cowboys told me my truck looked too nice to be hauling cows.

 

80 and humid here. Sweated thru my button up tying down :/

 

@ShooterK2

Think I’m in a Texas oil field anytime my run takes me past this guy...