Some of you may recall, I planned to celebrate making the 25 year mark with the Moose Truck, by throwing a party for my Ford dealer. I know that probably sounds really weird to most of you, but I'm lucky to have a Ford dealer worth throwing a party for. Everything went great. The Agne family showed up in a detailed Moose Truck for around 11:30, and the son of the founder Elmer Wade, Kent, was out firing up the grill. Kent is the guy who sold me the Moose Truck back in 1983, and we've been friends ever since. Kent runs the dealership with his brother Brian, who is the service manager. His daugher Diana is poised to take over when he retires. I set up my standard "car show display" with all my memorabilia like I do at the IDI Weekend show and shines, and all the employees looked it over as we waited for the burgers and dogs to cook. Kent even had mushrooms and peppers to go with it all. The food was delicious. After the meal, I said a few words about why I felt this event was worth celbrating, and why I thought Stoner-Wade was worthy of me wanting to do this. We then had cake and ice cream (what kind of birthday party doesn't include that?) Suzi and the boys handed out shirts to all the employees, and I gave the plaques that I had our own Tom Brewer make for me, out to Kent (for the sales one) and Glenn (who has been a parts department employee for over 25 years) got the parts and service one. The sales plaque included the original rubber clutch pedal pad from the Moose Truck that was swapped out a the 100K mark. They thought that was pretty neat, and Glenn even started to rattle off the ETZ something something part number from memory! We then got a group photo with as many of the employees that were still available as we could, before leaving with full stomachs and good memories. The album link is below. I still have some shirts left, and will make them available for $10 each at the IDI Weekend for anybody wanting one. Happy Birthday to the Moose Truck! Here's hoping for 25 more. 
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...As long as I have 2 good frame rails I can replace everything around them.
Working in a dealership myself I see truckers in all the time who only buy Freightshakers for the excellent service they have received over the years from our company. Good service and good products - whay fix what isn't broken.
