Not All Kids’ Dreams are Kids

Ever since I was a little girl, I have wanted to drive a big truck. I mean a BIG truck, like tow truck big or dump truck big.

My dad owned a business where he got to drive a big truck with a red cab. The considerable size was necessary as it was used to transport cattle and pigs. I drove it once when I was 20 years old, was able to keep it on the right side of a local country road, upshifted, downshifted, and shook in my boots. But wow!

Fast forward, and there have been a few times I have had to call a tow truck to transport a broken-down van. The happy part was that I jumped in with the driver for the ride to the auto repair shop. I talked nonstop, asking all kinds of questions. The high view from a tow truck cab is like, WOW.

Best guess is a tow truck driver OWNS the road. Other lesser vehicles move over, yield, and just stay out of the way. It’s like King of the Road driving, and I dreamt for some of that.

I was not too happy this week when one of the business vans gave up the ghost, and now I am in the market for another work van. Especially when buying trucks and vans are not my ideas of good time management, more like a necessary evil.

Now, though, a regular medium size work van is not the best solution.

Since the most recent purchase was a commercial pressure washing business, I understood a large truck would be a better fit.

A large truck with a flatbed and large water tank, generator, and other equipment as needed in the commercial pressure washing business.

Initially, I was not crazy about adding another truck, but as I considered the actual need, it struck me that this was the dream I had as a kid, driving a big truck on the road, other drivers yielding, and me, sitting high like a King.

Call me crazy, but this is my idea of a good purchase, fulfilling a child’s dream, which in this case happens to be mine.

You might ask, how often will I drive the thing once it is bought?

Uhhh, not sure.