Got A Different Power Unit

Our KW is still in the shop. Bah! Anywho, another driver quit midway through his load and we agreed to deliver it for the company. His truck is a Peterbilt, 18 speed. I don't know what size/kind of motor, but it's a big 'un. No other way to have it!

While we loff our KW, this PB is about twice the size in the sleeper and it's wonderful!! So nice to have room for our stuff and spraddle out in comfort.

The downside, you ask?? Well, the other driver was an absolute pig and it's nasty inside the cab. I disinfected everything and feel the need to do so again!! How in hell do people live in ick??? He sure did!!

Now, the funny part is the sideboxes on the trailer are immaculate! Everything is perfectly fitted and just SO. Why couldn't he do that with the power unit??

This poor rig needs a wash from Blue Beacon. They are gonna have their work cut out for them! Earn every cent we'd pay them!

At any rate, we have a bigger truck and are so much more happier. Yay!!

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Kenworth Couldn't Fix Our A/C, So Where DID We Get it Fixed??

We trotted ourselves right down to El Paso, TX, and a couple of really nice Mexican guys fixed it 'on the spot'.
It only took them a little over an hour to take the line off, repair it and put it back on. No leaks either. Then they charged us a whole whopping $290 for the whole thing.

Now, contrast this with the Amarillo KW dealer who took two whole days, charged close to $1000 and still had leaks and couldn't make it work. On top of that, they had to give us a new compressor thingy because their guy put too much coolant in it and brned the d*mn thing to pieces. Then, we got an sttitude from them and they wanted us to stay over an extra day to "fix" it again.

Ummm, no.

So, finally found these guys, here in El Paso, and they were so nice and grateful for the business.

Now, that's the way it ought to be!!

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It Has Been A Trying Day...

After the Labor Day weekend, we thought it would be all sunny and roses today.

Wrong. We are partially loaded and am sitting at a truckstop. A brake cam bracket broke (because of all the feckin' rough roads in this third world state of Cali) and rubbed a hole in the air line.

So, we whipped into TA and the shop said to park, drop our trailer, they would call us. We sat her for a coupld of hours, they called. I bob-tailed up to the shop, only to find frickin' out...they don't DO this kind of repair. *sigh*

So, called KW and we have to be there at 7am, with bells on. We hooked up the trailer and here we sit.

I knew it wouldn't go very smoothly. This is California after all. &*%^$%^ roads...

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Hubby And I Can Never Split Up....

It would upset our dogs!!

We took out beloved KW900L in to get a broken thingy in the A/C fixed and couldn't leave our doggie babies in the truck. The mechanic needed to get in and out of the cab and one of our lambchops is really territorial about the truck. She knows it's HER big rig and don't you forget it!

Well, we took them for a walk around KW's property and then the skies decided to drop some rain. We went into the drivers' lounge and watched TV with the dogs in our laps.

Hubby had to get up several times to check on whatever and each time he left, my dog would do this high pitched whine and her eyes never left the doorway hubby had walked out. His dog plastered her little body to my leg and her eyes were big as saucers!

As soon as hubby would walk back in, the whining stopped (which went over well with the other drivers there) and his dog practically lunged into his arms then moulded her little body to his chest and wasn't going to let go. Poor babies!!

So, there you have it. Hubby and I have to stay together through thick and thin, richer or poorer because of our precious lambchop doggies....

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