When just getting into trucking, I knew a couple of guys who bought fancy Ford Louisvilles right off the bat with lots of options. Mids I think it. In that same era, another friend of mine, Ron Kimber from Holland Landing, got into trucking with a passion. I met him while he was working for an auto parts distributor and he got trukc my first trucking job. Once he got into trucking he never looked. The first truck was soon followed by truck after truck after truck, a lot of used stuff, as I recall. Last time I saw him, he had a fleet and had some hoa running into Quebec. Years later I was working for a carrier in St. Thomas that was primarily into auto parts. They encouraged company drivers to go into partnership and had a lease to own deal that involved a more updated Ford or International with an add on sleeper that was installed in Port Stanley.