It's Official... I'm Now A Knuckle Dragger!!!

My new ride...

KW T800, Paccar 455hp, 18 speed AUTO(!), Palfinger S260Z truck-mounted crane, 53' Rietnaur aluminum 3-axle trailer. 500 miles on the odometer. Quarter million bucks. I'll try not to break it!!! LOL! :-)

Very cool.

Good luck with the new ride.

Ernie

Oh man....My first truck driving job was driving a pole truck,...telephone poles.....I didn't get to load 'em tho...now I would have enjoyed that !! I started driving the truck....then I graduated to steering the BACK of the trailer whata rush that was !!!

Oh man....My first truck driving job was driving a pole truck,...telephone poles.....I didn't get to load 'em tho...now I would have enjoyed that !! I started driving the truck....then I graduated to steering the BACK of the trailer whata rush that was !!!

Tell the truth back then you had ONE telephone pole on the wagon. It was all the mules could haul.

Wasn't that a TELEGRAPH pole??

Wasn't that a TELEGRAPH pole??

Yeppers

Congrats, Flatwater, that is an awesome looking ride!

Hey that's a sweet rig Flatwater! 18 speed automatic???? Am I reading that correctly?

OK you guys...laugh all you want....but I think some of the other "Crusty Old Drivers" on here will agree with me....We drove truck when it was FUN....it was more than a JOB....and the Knights of the Road RULED....You young guns may have fancy trucks, techy gear, and an app for everything short of a girlfriend ( and I'm sure its out there, just illegal)....but nothing will ever replace the life and times of the old time truckers. You will never experience half of what we have, or seen the things we've seen, or done the things we've done( most of which ARE illegal now). So we will keep our memories, and you youngsters can hang out in that hammer lane doin' 70 and feelin' like you got the world by the tail....and we will remember runnin that hammer lane at 110...and KNOWIN" we owned it.....

You talk like that was a hundred years ago. Back in the day I did own the left hand lane. When I was younger and dumb. Even bullracks moved out of the way back then.