Author: Jon Los

Anne was right out of a movie. Born and raised near Windsor Castle in England. Widow of a very wealthy businessman. With her Queens English accent, she sounded a bit like the queen. As she stood there wondering why this “thing” was spoiling her view, I answered her, “I know it’s ugly, and I’m sorry…

One morning I took a load of scrap metal to the recyclers. When I was just about to leave, a tow truck with a very cool, and rare, old Freightliner cabover on the hook pulled in. I had to have it! I asked the scrapper how much he wanted for it and he said he’d…

I was really enjoying my new/old toy. My brother-in-law, Kenny, from Prince George, was a logging truck owner operator who was just as into trucks as I was and we got along great. And the fact that we both like beer a lot too was a bonus. We would drive my sister crazy by taking…

Like I said at the end of the last post, my old Kenworth wasn’t a purebred. As I made some enquiries, I found that it had quite an interesting history that was closely related to the building of a major highway in BC, the Hope-Princeton Hwy. As I was sandblasting the chassis and the cab,…

And there it was, almost ready to go to work. Except for a few things that needed to be done, and at the top of the list were new rear ends so it could go faster that 47 MPH. I did take it to a lot of shows, and even won a couple of trophies,…