Here is what happened. Back in 2009 I got stuck when the company I was leasing my power unit to went belly up due to horrible family fight between the owner and underestimated general manager who quit and destroyed 25 years long story. So I had t0 stay home for a while and could see my first ever truck show where I immediately fell in love with some incredible combo of KW cabovers hooked to spread axle trailers – one of them being sliding spread 53′ Utility reefer… Simply amazing combination of old and new technology dragged me to the owners who happened to be super nice guys who answered all my questions and put so much faith in me that… 3 months later I got my own reefer and started hauling freight again which allowed me to get my family finances back on track and to take rolling truck pictures again – some of them ended up in cult 10-4 Magazine under “The Spirit of The American Trucker” series – and the latest issue is featuring exactly the very Bob Keffer’s KW. God only knows how many other lost folks he inspired to move on and change their life just by rolling down the highway – but I sure know he and his friend Scotty B  changed mine that day.

The other night I rolled thru a scale and got stopped for Level III inspection. The officer was checking my logs and dragging me into typical conversation where they want to figure out stuff they can’t see in the paperwork and got me to shoot him this line: “look officer, I find this job very hard on me but also very rewarding as I feel like doing something meaningful and demanded by lots of people – I don’t push papers… I bring them people food” Then I looked him straight in the eye and went: “It’s same thing you guys doing here – screening trucks to eliminate those unfit for 40 miles long steep and twisted mountain road known to kill the weak” He wished me good night and I was really happy to hit the road. That was the night I realized that nobody can stop you from doing the right thing in produce hauling world. If anything, they want to be a good guy like you… Because if you don’t eat fresh fruit – your immune system gets weak, you get cancer and you die.

Here is what sets apart American lifestyle and economy from the rest of the world standards. Relentless competition is the difference – under socialist regimes competition is slowly eliminated by increasing government intervention which always kills the small and helps to maintain monopoly of the biggest fishes – those who are able pulling strings at the very governments they use to gain market control. When US gov is also trying to grow and achieve exactly the same effect they took over the Europe with – it’s still far cry from that unfortunate situation where there is only rich and their laborers with pretty much nothing in between. We know better than that – everyone who dare to enter any competition  game is a winner already because just taking part in it will make him stronger not to mention living whole life fighting to gain slightest advantage over its fellow competitor. Well, what if big corporations would be this smart? They would all rock the market the way Paccar is for decades. They own both, Peterbilt and KW but want them to keep fighting the fight… trying to get over each other in sales…hopefully forever!