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Originally Posted by Cortez-The-Killer
well in all honesty it is my ex who is in the shackles now.. He got caught transporting illegal substances across the state line and is now serving 20 years in Canyon City. I took this opportunity to ran as fast as I could.
I met my ex in 9th grade and we got married shortly after high school. beleive it or not it was pretty much arranged by him and my father and i just did what I thought was expected of me being the oldest of 3 girls and not having a mother around to help guide me. We were raised on the southern Ute Reservation in Southwest Colorado and my father believed in tradtion as long as it fit into his needs, haveing another male to work to farm with him fit his needs and the rest is history. My ex was a hard working drunk and lived day by day. In 06 when my father passed away he allowed me to drive our farm tractor to help during harvest time. I loved the time behind the wheel as it gave me abreak from his verbally abusive manner. After his arrest last year and with the help of many local friends I got the nerve to get a divorce got my CDL and took ownership of his 07 freightliner, and now I am hauling whatever I can get my hands on, right now I pull a 45' refridgerator taking mostly produce to area distributors, but am open to anything that pays well. One neighbor is talking about buying bulls and doing the rodeo circuit? and If I can convince this local contractor that I can handler the job being that I am only a 5'1": 105 lb woman he may let me pull his excavation equiptment to new job sites.
Time will tell.
Thanks for the kind words Asphaltvoyager.
Jewels
Glad to hear you got out of that. The fact that he was transporting across state lines, suggests that he should have been the one on the receiving end of that abusive language.
Your size doesn't make that big a difference. Back when I was pulling a flatbed, my wife (5' 00", and 112) found out that she could pull on the straps and chains and get them just as tight as I could. The biggest problem she had was opening the hood for her pretrip, until she found that her "happy little hooker" for pulling the fifth-wheel gave her the leverage to pull the hood as well. The only real problem she had was not being able to see over the dash to drive a T-2000. But, she drove long-nose Petes, KWs, and several models of Freightliners, including a cabover and a Classic.
"You" are about the only thing that can really hold you back. And, it doesn't sound like you are going to allow "you" to do that. Good for you, and good luck.
Get up into MI, give Roadhog a shout. His bark is worse than his bite.