Where is everyone #5

Or throwing a hand on the back of his head and letting him be the defensive one lmao

 

Follow the money always, dreams and toys are for your days off. Im a ##### might find me pulling 3 different types of trailer in a week, in the shop wrenching, or helping a buddy at a farm or construction site. Been known to take a round in someone elses truck. Not much I won't do for a buck, and don't care were it comes from. Treat it as business every move counts. I'd drive a hot dog cart for the right price.

 

If a guy stops and listens to the lyrics in this song, he can’t help but imagine himself truckin in the dark looking at the hood of his truck in the marker lights, thinking about the loves he leaves behind to go truckin, but thinks about how free he feels when there’s no one but him and the freeway. A little haunted by the love of leaving loved ones to go fulfill a dream he can’t explain but just knows he has to do it.

 

Hope everything is going ok.

 

How about a company driver that has little interest in buying a truck? I want a nice truck, I work hard, I take care of my equipment and my company and believe me someone will give me a nice truck.

 

If you stay where you are, going down the path you’re going right now and be smart with your money ( live well within your means) before you know it the kids will be out of the house and you can take an early retirement and pay cash for that dream truck then you and the wife can see the country across that big hood.

Trust me and others will agree the 18 or so years till the kids move out will pass in the blink of an eye. Being #### near 40 now I look back at my early 20’s and think where in the hell did the time go. Back then I thought it would take a long time to get to the age I am now. Boy was I wrong as hell.

 

Changed oil and filters on my bucket of bolts today. I have a tee in the oil galley of the block, hook a line from my small hydraulic pump and let it prelude all the bearings as it fills the oilpan. Plus saves me from climbing or dripping oil.....

 

I'm window shopping. I'm young and not a fan of chrome it has its place and depends on the truck to me. The blue truck I'll agree needs some spit shined 24.5s on it. The black and green one I'd like to see with nothing but big chrome stacks all else black is fine with me.

I lust for a new truck I can call mine. I drive an almost new truck for my company now. What's wrong with having a dream and a big one at that?

I agree. You earn respect from me it's not just given. And I try to keep my companies rig clean and nice. I pay out of pocket for truck washes because the only wash they do for free is at the yard and I'm not by the yard every week.

My stuff is stored neatly and my tarps (usually) are rolled tightly and strapped to the front of the trailer. I'm not quite to the point of being able to make a super tight smooth rolled up tarp but I'm getting there.

My appearance could use work. I rarely buy clothes, mainly because I have to order them online and when your 6'8 with a 38 inseam things get pretty pricey. Especially for nice clothes.

And I speak professionally when dealing with customers. I admit I've got a sailors vocabulary but I clean it up when necessary.

 

I don't really want to dissuade you from having a dream. Or a Goal in your life. Those things are good. Very good and CAN be very useful. BUT. You really need to keep in mind that there's a whole entire world of writers and singers and movie makers ( among others who support them in other ways, such as publicity and advertising and the insurance industry ) who make a dam fine living selling empty dreams and smoke and mirrors. If the reality were truly known, most of them wouldn't DARE to take the Hard Working Path that they project as such a Romantic Way to live a "Independent Life". Some of them wouldn't give a dam if they knew the cost to the consumer would be cancer. Just as long as the public would buy their products. Be it song, book or movie or whatever. I know because I wasted most of my life believing in the bs that I saw on TV when I was a kid. It's not any fun telling you this. It's not any fun admitting this either. But it's true. That's why I'm saying it. We all want to have heroes. But we owe it to ourselves to pick and choose wisely in what to believe in. And always consider the cost to ourselves and loved ones ( if we're fortunate enough to have some. Not everybody does. )
Don't be deceived by empty ideas that anybody wants to sell you.
I should read these words myself every morning. Because I forget all too often.

 

Stop it. You’re supposed to tell me I’m gonna feel like I’m 23 forever

At my unload in Kennewick yesterday the guys were helping me pull my tarps off. Now, I never go and ask for help but if you’re gonna offer... hell yeah. Three guys can pull and roll two tarps in a fraction of the time it would take me to do it...

Anyway, I jump up onto the lower deck of the step deck and immediately the older guy looks at me “####, how does it feel to still be in your 20s...”