Just what is the ultimate expediter accessory? Chrome stacks for the flash? Your generator for the comfort? Your satellite dish or maybe your internet connection? Or maybe having that whole truck lit up in LED's while you roll through the night.
I got out of the business a year ago, but I'll tell you what I think the ultimate accessory is. One my wife and I traveled with for over 400,000 miles of our million mile career in trucking. It has to do with freedom, dulling the agonizing boredom of a long weekend layover and doing something exciting with those 48 + hours until the next load on Monday.
What is it? A motorcycle. Park the truck for the weekend and take off! Take a few extra days if you need to. Ride down to Key West. Ride a part of Highway 101 in California. Take a tour around Lake Tahoe. We only put 20,000 miles on our bike while we were trucking, but I'll tell you - each mile on the was worth a 100 times more than in the truck.
We never advertised our freedom machine to anyone... other drivers, the company or customers. It only weighed 350 lbs and took up 19" of space in the nose of the box barricaded behind a false wall. You can see what we rode at http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&viewitem=&item=110144192976 .
No, I'm not trying to sell it to you. In fact, for one reason or another only a small number of people in the driving industry could really use something like this. It's just that now that I was in the process of moving on I was reminiscing about the good old days and I was thinking that some of you might like to know that this can be done. I know drivers the have done the same with anything from scooters to Harleys.
With all the fun we had in our trucking career, when we look back at the photos and talk about the great experiences - it usually involves the bike in one way or another.
Can anybody's expediter accessory top that?
Matt
I got out of the business a year ago, but I'll tell you what I think the ultimate accessory is. One my wife and I traveled with for over 400,000 miles of our million mile career in trucking. It has to do with freedom, dulling the agonizing boredom of a long weekend layover and doing something exciting with those 48 + hours until the next load on Monday.
What is it? A motorcycle. Park the truck for the weekend and take off! Take a few extra days if you need to. Ride down to Key West. Ride a part of Highway 101 in California. Take a tour around Lake Tahoe. We only put 20,000 miles on our bike while we were trucking, but I'll tell you - each mile on the was worth a 100 times more than in the truck.
We never advertised our freedom machine to anyone... other drivers, the company or customers. It only weighed 350 lbs and took up 19" of space in the nose of the box barricaded behind a false wall. You can see what we rode at http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&viewitem=&item=110144192976 .
No, I'm not trying to sell it to you. In fact, for one reason or another only a small number of people in the driving industry could really use something like this. It's just that now that I was in the process of moving on I was reminiscing about the good old days and I was thinking that some of you might like to know that this can be done. I know drivers the have done the same with anything from scooters to Harleys.
With all the fun we had in our trucking career, when we look back at the photos and talk about the great experiences - it usually involves the bike in one way or another.
Can anybody's expediter accessory top that?
Matt
