I am not a great wrench. I am not an amazing driver. I lack many of the skills you might associate with being even an average automotive journalist. While I’ve taken steps to improve both my abilities as a mechanic and driver, I know that these are not naturally my strengths. Instead, what I lack in capability I have to make up for in a blind willingness to make a fool of myself and write about it.
But not always. There are moments that become so embarrassingly quixotic that I can’t bring myself to type them into the CMS. At least not immediately. I feel like the statute of limitations on embarrassing myself in a press loaner is ten years, so this story is well beyond that.
Are you ready to hear about the time I decided to borrow a prototype CNG-powered dump truck for a visit to a college? Are you ready to hear about all the ways that it went wrong? Good, because I might just be ready to write about it.
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