Happy New Year, everyone! Time to make some resolutions to ourselves that we likely won\u2019t recall by next month. Hopefully, you have something exciting to look forward to in the coming year. As for me, I have purchased another old project truck to tinker with \u2013 a 1989 Freightliner FLD120 with a 3406B Cat and a 15-speed. While it may not look like anything glamorous or special to most people, I specifically chose this truck for the body style. It\u2019s not a flat top and it\u2019s not a condo \u2013 it\u2019s got the somewhat rare 60\u201d stand-up removable sleeper, which was common before the integrated condo sleepers were available. I encourage you to look back at my January 2015 poem that describes a couple of trucks my dad had in \u201889 and \u201890 that are the inspiration I draw on for the vision I have for this particular project. So far, I have bought the truck from a friendly gentleman in California and learned that it had sat through a flood that let water into the engine and rear ends, so that will be a major hurdle to overcome. But I think I can handle it. I made a call to my friend Gus Hulstein to ask if he had any connections with anyone who could tow it the 750 miles up to my place in Washington state, and Gus didn\u2019t even hesitate to offer to do the job personally. So, within a week, he and his dad Jeff, along with Gus\u2019 son Gerrit, were heading through the ice and snow in their classy cabover Freightliner on Thanksgiving night to go hook-up to my new-found treasure and bring it to me. And although they didn\u2019t have an easy trip, due to the nasty roads, they took the opportunity to share in the spirit of my vision for the project and to spend the time together on a father, son and grandson trucking adventure. And they did it with a winning attitude despite the adversities they faced along the way. What a great group of guys! Thank you, Gus, Jeff and Gerrit Hulstein for all the help and the pictures you took along the way. I felt like the trip you made together reflects the same father and son kind of moments that I so fondly recall with my dad, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m inspired to build another rig that resembles one he once owned.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n
HE AND ME AND THE FLD<\/strong> I was sittin and reminiscin, So, my heart, it started burnin, I bought an old Freightshaker, She is rough around the edges, I ain\u2019t scared, I\u2019ve gotta have it, \u201cNothin\u2019 special\u201d most would say, While she only moves by towin, In the meantime, I\u2019ll be schemin, Just like dad, I\u2019ll chase tomorrow, Happy New Year, everyone! Time to make some resolutions to ourselves that we likely won\u2019t recall by next month. Hopefully, you have something exciting to look forward to in the coming year. As for me, I have purchased another old project truck to tinker with \u2013 a 1989 Freightliner FLD120 with a 3406B Cat and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poetry-in-motion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26579,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369\/revisions\/26579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n By Trevor Hardwick<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWhen I really started missin,
\nMy old man, so I was wishin,
\nI could visit him, somehow.<\/p>\n
\nAnd my wheels started turnin,
\nThen my thoughts became a yearnin,
\nFor the plans I\u2019m making now.<\/p>\n
\nAnd I figured I could take \u2018er,
\nAnd I\u2019d do my best to make \u2018er,
\nLook exactly like my dad\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\nBut we yanked her from the hedges,
\nAnd the seller still alleges,
\n\u201cTitle\u2019s good\u2026 the motor\u2019s bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve got a broken-truck bad habit,
\nAnd you can laugh at me, dag-nabbit,
\nBut I bought an FLD.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ll just fix \u2018er up someday,
\nThen she\u2019ll sit in my driveway,
\nThat\u2019s just how it\u2019s gonna be.<\/p>\n
\nAnd her age is surely showin,
\nSomeday soon I\u2019ll get \u2018er goin,
\nI just wish my dad could see.<\/p>\n
\nIn my mind, I\u2019ll keep on dreamin,
\n\u2018Bout the day she\u2019ll sit there gleamin,
\nIn the summer sun, somewhere.<\/p>\n
\nNo sense dwelling on the sorrow,
\nIn the time that I may borrow,
\nI will visit him, right there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"