It’s All About The Timing

It’s all about timing.

Water truck story.

I never wanted a water truck until last year.

Out of all the other things on my wish list, that truck was at the bottom.

Mostly because of my small minded thinking. I don’t know how I can have the biggest visions and goals but at the same time think so tiny.

My reasoning was— we have free water, coming from a free pipe on site, that we could use for free. Did I mention that it was free?

Well not exactly, because nothing is free. Fire hoses cost $200 a pop and they are always breaking. Labor to drag the hoses around to spray the water is super expensive. On top of that, the time it takes to mix water into dry material with a hose takes forever…

As I type this I’m shaking my head thinking how stupid it was to not have a water truck all these years.

Anyway, one day as I was being stubborn and super cheap, I thought, “I’ll just turn my beat up tandem into a water truck”.

When has converting something old and beat up into a new functioning tool ever worked out for me? Never, ever. No matter what it was, I always ended up paying twice as much in the end, taking 10 times as long to build it, and it usually doesn’t work quite the way it’s supposed to.

Then I got a text. ‘06 Peterbuilt, (pre DPF) in immaculate condition, on the Big Island.

I instantly wanted it. The perfect fit.

Just one problem. It wasn’t really for sale… and I didn’t have the money to buy it.

Turns out that the guy “selling” it was on the fence. The truck wasn’t listed, and it was an integral part of his business. Getting rid of it would mean closing up shop.

But I had a sale price.

The deal was that I needed to sell my Sany excavator to help pay for the truck. Which took me about 4 months, and seemed like forever.

I thought my chance would be lost for sure. If I couldn’t get that Pete, I wasn’t gonna get anything.

Unknowingly to me, the time it took to get the money worked in my favor. Due to some life drama, the seller started leaning toward actually selling.

If I had the money when we first started talking, I don’t think he would of sold it and this deal might not of happened.

God’s timing is always perfect.

#staytrue