And the Journey Begins......

So while sitting on a drilling rig off the coast of Africa, my friend and co-worker Blake and I somehow agreed that we should build a tailgating trailer so we can have a legitimate excuse to go to all home Aggie games and the proper motivation to get us up there now that we are out in the real world. Needless to say our thoughts and desires for the trailer quickly outgrew our desired budget, so we enlisted the help of two more of our co-workers and former classmates to help defer the cost. Once that was all said and done we decided that we should start with a former U-Haul truck to build upon. After many weeks/months of deliberating on what type and size truck to get we settled on the biggest truck that U-Haul makes. So we found a 2000 model 24' truck that had been wrecked and picked over by the parts department at U-Haul but still had a nice box. Here is the truck that we started out with:



Once we had our truck picked out and bought we inlisted Blake's dad Dennis to come down to Houston and pick it up with his 18 wheeler and truck it back to College Station to begin work. It was interesting getting a truck with only one axle onto a trailer, but we ended up getting done by lifting the truck up by the wheels using forklifts and having Dennis back the trailer up to get it on.




Once that was done she was off to College Station........