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Article #112: Fuel Savings for Big Rigs

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Truckin' is my life these days. girl a smiley face sticker, but she gave
Unfortunately, I couldn't pass my me a swift kick in the shin. I couldn't
commercial driver's license exams, so I'm not slap her! Without discipline,
stuck inside my dually Sierra instead of children will run wild and destroy our
a proper Kenworth. I don't much mind, society. Too bad her father and the
though. I'm just happy to be away from my Wal-Mart lawyers couldn't understand that
family for long stretches of time. Dianna because I was out on my ear in minutes.
used to be a right fine woman, and we had Dianna's nagging grew into out and out
a lot of fun going out line dancing, ridicule after that last lost job, and I
playing putt-putt golf, or just throwing knew that I couldn't stick around for
back a 6-pack and making out in my long. That's when a buddy of mine planted
pickup. Everything changed when she had a bug in my ear about becoming a trucker.
the boys: twin monsters with a taste for To be honest, it's always been a dream of
chocolate syrup and breaking my stuff. mine ever since I first saw Smokey and
During those first 5 years, Dianna and I the Bandit. I took some classes, tried
steadily drifted apart. The boys were getting my license, but my cornering
very demanding of her time and attention, chops just weren't up to the State's
and I didn't really want to share her standards. Rather than just give up, I
with a couple of snot-nosed buttinskies. bought myself a dually Sierra with a long
A chill settled over our marriage, and I bed and plush captain's chairs. Now, I
took to sleeping on the couch because the work as an independent contractor hauling
boys hogged the bed. spent needles from the town's methadone
That was about the time when I decided to clinic up to a waste site in the Beer
quit my gig with Amway and look for City. It's a pretty good gig, but the
gainful employment that would get me out rising cost of diesel is starting to cut
of the house. For a while, I tried my into my bottom line. I did some sleuthing
hand as a short order cook at the Red online and found a ton of accessories
Lobster. But they caught me making off promising fuel savings for big rigs. I
with about 4 lbs of frozen shrimp one figured it was worth a shot, so I ordered
night so cut me loose. After that, I up a truck bed cover and a performance
pulled a stint as a greeter over at the air filter. Both have done wonders for my
Wal-Mart 2 towns over. That didn't go so fuel consumption, which allows me to stay
well either. I tried to offer a little away from home even more.






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