HIGH AND MIGHTY

“They assumed the Kenworths were going to be far too expensive.”

Let us begin today’s lesson by breaking down the variations in truck class. Many of you are aware of the different truck classes, however allow me to remind you. You have your MR class, medium rigid. You have your HR class, heavy rigid. You then move up to you HC, or heavy combination and finally there is your MC, multi combination. That is where it used to stop.

Now, however, there is an extra class, known as your OD class, or ‘oh damn’! It’s a rare class but designed for specific trucks, like the Burgundy Heights Kenworth C509.

Trucks like this redefine ‘big’. It’s got a sleeper that could hide all contestants of the ‘2021 World Hide and Seek Championship’. Its wheelbase is longer than Sergey Bubka’s 1994 pole vaulting record. It’s got the power to pull the truth out of a used car salesman and it just looks cool – seriously, monstrously cool.

This C509 has shown up at several local truck shows, turning heads so fast that local physiotherapists were documenting a huge spike in strained neck muscle injuries the very next day. It’s massively distracting – massive being the operative word. So you will have to forgive me if this story is a little light on information.

As I sat listening to Jarrod Smith, son of Burgundy Heights’ founders Dennis and Shirley Smith, my