Daily truck pics

Saw these yesterday in West Houston....

HotWheelsBurban said:

Saw these yesterday in West Houston....

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Definitely more about down there than up here. I might see 1 in a week around here. Sometimes none for a few weeks.

It depends on what part of town I'm in. The one that Rawhide is in, is actually a couple of miles from where I live in south central Houston. I used to see some every week when I went to the Eastside twice a week for work. And I always see more trucks than I can photograph! Yesterday, coming towards us on Westheimer( in Highland Village area, very swanky)there was a really sharp looking Chevy ex cab dually, in a lighter teal green, and I couldn't get my camera app open fast enough. Not where I was expecting to see another 400 besides the one I was in, especially not another 3500!
As these trucks get more popular, I think some people are getting them out and using them. A sunny or partly cloudy day, after days of rain and gloom, always brings out the nice cars and trucks!

Caman96 said:

Definitely more about down there than up here. I might see 1 in a week around here. Sometimes none for a few weeks.

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Up north of Oklahoma, don't the older vehicles just start dissolving pretty soon?

HotWheelsBurban said:

Up north of Oklahoma, don't the older vehicles just start dissolving pretty soon?

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I’ll take your word for it.

Caman96 said:

I’ll take your word for it.

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Well I keep hearing about how rust is much more of an issue for y'all northerners....

HotWheelsBurban said:

Well I keep hearing about how rust is much more of an issue for y'all northerners....

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Definitely is, maybe I misunderstood, was thinking North of Oklahoma as still the South. Being from Boston. Really mild winter for us so far, I don’t want to jinx it though.

HotWheelsBurban said:

Up north of Oklahoma, don't the older vehicles just start dissolving pretty soon?

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They sure do. It's the bane of us car/truck folks' existence up here. Mine came from California and I drove it daily for 5 years before retiring it to nice weather only. A couple more years and it would have started turning to Swiss cheese. Generally, there is nothing old and nice in the rust belt that hasn't either been imported, garaged, or restored. I've been dying to drive mine since finishing the brakes in November...but no, freaking salt. Good winter or not, and this HAS been a relatively mild one, the salt dust stays on the streets until maybe 3-5 good rainy days. Then it gets down to 31 degrees, a few flakes fall, and the salt trucks are out yet again. It's best just to plan for no fun from November until April.

Intragration said:

They sure do. It's the bane of us car/truck folks' existence up here. Mine came from California and I drove it daily for 5 years before retiring it to nice weather only. A couple more years and it would have started turning to Swiss cheese. Generally, there is nothing old and nice in the rust belt that hasn't either been imported, garaged, or restored. I've been dying to drive mine since finishing the brakes in November...but no, freaking salt. Good winter or not, and this HAS been a relatively mild one, the salt dust stays on the streets until maybe 3-5 good rainy days. Then it gets down to 31 degrees, a few flakes fall, and the salt trucks are out yet again. It's best just to plan for no fun from November until April.

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Wow, I'm glad I live where they don't need to salt the roads! On the rare occasions when we do expect to get below freezing, the Texas DOT has sand trucks that go out and cover the overpasses (which being a city of freeways and toll roads, we have lots of flyovers and interchanges besides the regular bridges and overpasses).

Intragration said:

They sure do. It's the bane of us car/truck folks' existence up here. Mine came from California and I drove it daily for 5 years before retiring it to nice weather only. A couple more years and it would have started turning to Swiss cheese. Generally, there is nothing old and nice in the rust belt that hasn't either been imported, garaged, or restored. I've been dying to drive mine since finishing the brakes in November...but no, freaking salt. Good winter or not, and this HAS been a relatively mild one, the salt dust stays on the streets until maybe 3-5 good rainy days. Then it gets down to 31 degrees, a few flakes fall, and the salt trucks are out yet again. It's best just to plan for no fun from November until April.

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Same here living in Iowa, gets aggravating when you can't drive what you want all year round without salt dissolving it to nothing. I'm grateful that this year has been very mild unlike past years, but the constant "oh it's gonna warm up and it's gonna rain to wash the salt away!" to "oh boy, it's going to be 25 degrees the next day with 2-3" of snow" then back to "it's gonna be 40 with all day rain" gets old real quick, all that snow melt progress eventually gets wiped away within a few days, just a repeating cycle. And like you said, we aren't guaranteed a straight run of rain to wash the salt away until April.