This Means MORE Trail Riding!

I have been waiting for this moment for years and years!! It just was something that we were never able to afford. But it was something we had to have. I have been hauling my horse trailer with our 2000 GMC half ton truck. It did fine hauling short distances, like to our local trails. But when I had to haul long distance or over the mountain pass, it made me nervous. It just wasn't enough truck to do the long hauls. So I always had to borrow a friends one ton truck when I was taking my horses long distance. Not anymore! 

Our new baby waiting for us to take it home!

I am excited to show it off. It is a 2012 GMC Denali one ton dually. We wanted diesel, and diesel we got. It has every option you can think of, I mean every! Black leather, power everything, sunroof, navigation system and the list goes on and on and on (I don't want to bore you all with the list).

The truck dealer taking our new truck to get a bath!

We went to the truck dealer to look at a couple of trucks that we looked at on their website. We knew exactly what we wanted in a truck and this was the only one that had every single thing we wanted. We did not need a dually, but again, it was the only truck with everything we wanted. So we ended up with the dually. We looked at a 2012 GMC Denali one ton gas, but it had a short box and did not have all the interior options. Again, we really wanted the diesel and all the options. Although the gas one was super pretty in black! If only they had our dually in stock in black we would have gotten black. But that is okay. The white won't show as much dirt and it looks prettier with my horse trailer!

We just had to back the truck up to the horse trailer (it's not hooked up) to see what it looks like "together"!

This will probably be way more truck then we will ever need. But I do have plans to someday upgrade my horse trailer to a 4 horse gooseneck. So now I have the truck to make the upgrade when that time comes. We obviously get hay in our truck and we also have a quad trailer that we take to get big loads of hay. The other really cool thing is that our truck is not our everyday driver. We each have our own vehicles for that. So this truck will always have low miles and should last us many, many, many years of safe hauling (and no more nervous jitters for me)!! What could be better than that?? And I am sure my ponies will thank me for it too!

Now I can go on those trail rides that aren't so close to home because I know I have a truck that can tow safely! Oh, the opportunities that await me!!