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you, you, and all of you don't know that this is the back wall down guys you just saw one of the

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free rigs in Shipshewana right now come out the door and this is a beautiful couple that actually They are the owners. of this truck Chris Andrew Smith, how are you today? Well, thank you, it's been an absolute honor to come and tell me totally about this beautiful platform that you had and I'm totally floored by everything that goes into that. Inside and out this truck is absolutely stunning, tell me a little about how this came about.

We bought our first truck three and a half years ago in a good, we flew, we lived in England and still in the UK and we heard about an RI. From there, we took a tour of the plant and decided that this is where we wanted our truck to be, so our first one was also a legacy that we learned from and it was the

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thing I've ever driven because I drew it was on little American trucks and even on smaller European trucks, so I know I looked at the fact that you came to airai and told me what was the most unique thing about putting this unit together, I think just for Christmas and me.

I will come from the UK just for the understanding of the university they wanted. I like the idea that they did it on December 26th. They love to play golf. We built that building on the back table to store golf items that are safely stored inside the gears. They could really prick the eyes, everything in the hunger mania was fine, so now 180 and 180 of cribs in the living room, so what did that bring on the chest? Tim Timmy a little bit about how that really hit home with me. I wanted a big truck. I traded in my original truck.

Floor plans change trucks and my dream truck was the truck I grew up in the truck. I learned in the truck. I took my test and that was the one I was, you know, 389, a big beer bill with a hood. It's okay, Peterbilt would only be this big with a friend. I couldn't go any further, so it saved me a ridiculously long time, so right now we are the longest truck made by Peterbilt, which has a 380 inch wheelbase 383 80, they won't last longer than that, but this 380, so what kind of powertrain do you have? Now I have a 605 that comes 605 comments the x-15 with 2050 torque and we have an Eaton 18 speed manual gearbox and I know a lot of the guys are going for the automatic transmissions right?

One of the beautiful things about this one is that you have a manual transmission which you also prefer over the automatic. Yes, the last gearbox was an automatic and we decided to go back to a manual on this one. It's a little more of a learning curve for my wife because she hasn't driven a manual. I love the accident guys, if you haven't noticed, they're from London, so Kristen's axons aren't as pronounced on this route, but we have to get you out here saying something, so Rose, how long has it been? I've been driving, oh I started driving when I was nineteen, we came from England in early '98.

I went to truck driving school in California which is where we live and without Robi Chris became my coach and they're still married ​​and yes, that's when I started and directly. a peak with some speed so I try to get you on the right side now I grew up driving a stick shift it was nothing it's almost mocha but it certainly was different so just so you know going back to I don't have If you have any big concern, I think it's Chris. I'm going to put you on the spot a little bit and there's a story behind this truck, so I want you to tell me a little bit about the truck itself, how did it come about?

Did you come to everything in this truck? It has something to do with my family and my growth, so I choke up a little. The truck is called Beverly, she is Beverly; It's now named after my sister, who passed away in 2002, and that's it. a tribute to her, but there are other things like there are seven lights on the top of my bed and that represents my father's number that he wore on his football shirt (you call it soccer) when he played in England as a child and the yellow from The truck represents my sister's house that we all grew up in in San Jose, California, so it has very good memories from back then and you know there are still a lot of memories and a lot of things that we need to add to the truck to have to do. with my mom and obviously Ruth's mom and dad too, can you top this one?

I want to try out what our retirement truck is eventually, but this is the last truck, so it's the famous last words that everyone says when we say yes, this is going to be it. one last trip, you know, we do, we take good care of our equipment anyway, so this truck will last us more than five years, but everyone always says yes, that's what everyone says, yeah, I know a lot of guys are going to win, okay, he's got this. big truck, what are you transporting with this big truck? Obviously, we are a heavy truck, but we have a very light trailer.

We have a step deck and we work for Southern Pride hauling trucks out of San Diego, California in the aviation business and We have all aircraft jet engines whether commercial or military and we accept jet engines nationwide, so you actually put what size trailer you have at home, what size right up there. I have an aluminum deck with 48 foot steps to the east, okay? A lot of guys say, "Ah, man, you can't hold anything but air with this big truck and a lot of rocket fuel." Someone calls 44,000 pounds, whether it's groceries or produce or something like that.

You know, it's obviously specialized transportation. We spend more time on the road. We actually love being on the road. We live in Arizona. We live like we did in Arizona. We don't want to go home during the summer and it's too hot, so we would like to live our life on the road. We spent nine months, eight or nine months on the road, but then we took three months off during the winter. You know, they are a southern pride. We are a great company to work for and yes, a lot of people who work there have a lot of important books because we work a lot more on the road, but to me it also represents the company as you look at the truck I want.

Having them hold my gear is exactly how I see it and on that note I want to come back so now I know a lot of the guys are going to say, "Okay Quinn, yeah, you showed us this great passive bed, but where would you sleep please?" ?" Explain that for the general public, we're actually here, there's a little lever, you're going to remove these wedge shaped cushions and pillows, turn this lever and this bed will fold up and come out here, into the cabin, so you can hear that, boys. We are sitting in the bed area.

Yes, this is a dining area during the day and the same sleeping area is ready. This is the greatest man. This is a 54 inch bed. As you can see, Chris and I are sitting on the side. There is a lot of space. for two people on each side, it says there's plenty of room, but you basically have my wife's side here. Peter got the dogs here and then I have this little advantage now Chris, we look in the cockpit here and our city is too boring to look, these are not the typical sleeping seats of a big truck, we up here, explain it to me , please, well, our life is spent sitting in the driver's seat, I, huge, really, sit here in the bathroom, you know, I'm back here playing video games or Whatever it is, we spend a lot of time.

I want something comfortable to sit on so we opted for overhead seats and they were custom made to our color scheme. Now the passenger side is basically a normal seat, however the driver's seat is a little larger. normal, it's heated, it's also cold and it also has a kind of massage, the upper part that makes you sound and that massages your shoulders, the middle part that does your back, the lower part that does you, you know, the part lower back, okay, so yeah, it's very comfortable with that. Note guys, I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to visit us to come once again.

Toby, thanks for the invitation, thanks to mr. and Mrs. Smith for giving us the opportunity to spend, admire and drool over her truck here and to everyone. This has been an absolutely awesome Rick. We have to walk a little further, but right now I want to thank Smith and Toby for actually giving us the opportunity guys, thank you so much, thank you for coming and we are very honored that you wanted to come see my trunk, thank you .