In
late September of 2010, I made arrangements
with Randy Salvig, who owns and operates
Randco Tanks, a builder of construction and
firefighting tankers to haul Fire 32 to
Hillsboro. Randy owns a Freightliner semi
with a flat bed trailer that he uses to
deliver his water tenders, and he agreed to
help me out making the move. While I had
been through the carburator and had it
running good a couple of times, the truck
was just not running right and I was not
comfortable making the drive from Vancouver
to Hillsboro, so I felt safer trailering it
rather than risking a breakdown. On October
1st, Randy met me in a parking lot not far
from the shop where we loaded Fire 32 onto
the trailer and hit the freeway for the trip
across town. It was an interesting
experience looking at Fire 32 up on the
trailer as I followed him down the freeway,
thinking we were really headed to paint and
I would soon be seeing Fire 32 in its
original red and white colors.
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