One year ago this week I achieved one of my long time trucking dreams, to drive a bright LIME GREEN truck. Which I affectionately call, the LIMETIME, for obvious reasons. Right away I started customizing the ol girl with green seat covers, green dice, a personalized license plate, and my favorite part, the chrome and lime green vinyl dash!
So here we are one year later, and 170,000 miles down the road. It is quite the powerful beast with its 500HP Volvo D13 motor, and I ride in style with my heated massaging seats and Bluetooth stereo system. I have got many compliments over the last year, from people on the streets walking by, motorists pulling up beside me at a red light, or even customers. People do love the color. My company does now have 3 more lime green Volvos we just got a few weeks ago, but the colors and stripes are a little different, still making mine unique with its blue and silver color scheme, which is totally awesome! It has been a fun year, and I hope to keep trucking in the LimeTime for many more to come!
Yeah it's an automatic and what-not, I do miss jammin them ol' gears and stuff,and I loved my Peterbilt, I had the ol 'Viper' for nearly 4 years, my longest run in any one single truck by far. But she was getting old and just not much space in them, compared to the Volvo. Hear in the back I got my own private work station and table, and refrigerator/freezer, microwave, a bed on top, which I loaded down with soft foam and padded mattress cover recently, very comfy now! It's almost like an efficiency apartment rather than a truck. The storage space and cabinets is ridiculous. I know in a few years when I bring my wife on the road full time, they'll still be plenty of room for two people to live nicely. It's just an awesome truck all around, and I'm proud to get to drive it!
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