2012 freightliner paintcode12/31/2023 The farmhouse was in it's last shade of whitewash before grey bare boards and the barn and wooden fencing were completely faded of any color. Then came one of my favorite picture moments in my traveling experience, I drove around a slow bend in the road and the absolute oldest and most time weathered farm and out buildings I had seen yet came into view. Farmland views as far as you could see for hours on either side of the road and a couple of old and faded red barns some with tobacco advertising and equally weathered homes here and there. Traveling a rural county route somewhere across Missouri maybe Kansas (traveling 450–600 miles a day states sort of blend together) on a overcast and very dreary rained on afternoon. More than a little distracting for a fairly new CDL driver on a three day run and causing me to wonder yet again if I had taken a wrong career decision several months earlier. each) nose to end in my trailer and causing the sidewalls, front panel and rear doors to sway and ripple as though something was alive and thrashing around inside as the load shifted on uneven surfaces of the road. Driving the first truck assigned to me (a 2012 Freightliner Columbia Glider, tractor and trailer both painted road cone orange with a KPH not MPH dash gauge… another story…) governed at 60 mph not kph thankfully but evidently still very annoying to everyone behind me, and pulling one of the heavier load assignments (maybe a dozen brown paper rolls standing on end, staggered in place about seven feet tall with forty eight inch diameters weighing 3500 lbs.
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