Category: Playing with trucks
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Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
Richard, for all his faults, was really trying to get our business off the ground. We had what seemed to be endless meetings with potential investors. And it’s funny how talking to one person leads to another, which leads to another, and so on. One fellow we talked to said he knew an investment group…
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$110,000 Later…
And there it was, a brand new 1990 Peterbilt 357 motorhome, complete with an Allison automatic transmission, a 3306 Cat diesel, and air-ride suspension front and back. The coach had a washer and dryer, a full sized bathtub, and every possible gadget I could think of. It really was a beautiful unit. It took a…
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One Peterbilt Coming Up, From Texas
It was a long wait but the day finally came when our brand new custom built Peterbilt arrived. To say I was excited is a huge understatement. Frankly, my guts were churning and I felt a bit sick! I mean, there I was, a 28 year old with no business experience and who was quickly…
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Can’t Sell One? Build Another One!
It was so cool. Everywhere I went with the motorhome I had a tail of people who would follow me just hoping I would pull over so they could check it out. It wasn’t possible to get anywhere quickly when I had to give tours of the thing every time I stopped. The most common…
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Done!
My dad shortly before he passed away from pancreatic cancer. Sorry for the two lower pictures being bad but they went through a fire and by a miracle, they survived… It took a year, but when my one of a kind Kenworth motorhome rolled out of the shop it blew me away. It still needed…
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We Were Almost There
Things were humming right along. The motorhome project was out of my hands and being taken care of. I was hauling containers around southern BC and Washington making decent money. And I was lonely. We used to have a paper called The Buy & Sell. I guess we still do but it’s all online now.…