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Modern day dilemma

IT’S BEEN an interesting and frustrating few weeks in my world. We have disposed of our Western Star. I just got so tired of watching it degenerate in the shed, so I’m back to being the operator of just a project truck. Not even a trailer to my name. When I analyse my mentality, I come up with being somewhat irrational and eccentric. After all, how does one describe the selling of a prime mover with in excess of one million clicks (which I bought brand new in 2008) and replacing it with a Kenworth K104 that started its working life in 2004?

I saw the

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