Right!
But I did want to ask you about your shoulder which I just recently heard from you.
Is it a rotator cuff thing. And did you op out of surgery or is it not something that can be fixed?
It's my sternoclavicular joint or whatever. On the inside. Technically not my shoulder. All the docs said surgery is an option but they reeeeeeally don't like going in there because of how close it is to the heart and main arteries.
I'd kinda rather have pain than deadness.
This buying a truck thing is kind of a workaround because I can carry all the tools I need to not have to strongarm problematic shit. When you slipseat in a day cab you can only carry so much stuff because it has to leave with you every day.
With your own truck you can have a tool box full of it and it stays there.
When I have a good handling, straight rolling truck and trailers with minimal issues, I'm good. But I had to get an electric bolt cutters to deal with bolt seals and that's heavy in the kit bag along with a hammer, drill, etc for fixing mud flaps and beating on bad doors.
So basically imagine all the stuff you take with you in the truck. All that stuff that's in the storage bins, on the deck, in the saddle boxes, etc that help you along because you started carrying it for the random contingency.
Now imagine having to take that out of the truck and put it in your car every day. You end up not carrying it. Then you need it and you're manually trying to work around it.
With a ****ed up clavicle that sucks. With the right tools it's not so bad.
And quite frankly the biggest thing is a truck that is not out of alignment yanking me off the road. My superiors wouldn't believe me when I said it wasn't right.