Some shuttle drivers that move my vehicle say that I am anal about how clean I keep my truck!  My truck is my office to and from the river so I like everything to be in place and keep it clean.   I know where my invoice book, spare key, extra tippet, 10 pens, 2 dozen #10 br/black stone nymphs are.   Its all right there. And I did put some nice rims on it this year.
Some comments I get from new clients are ” man, brand new rig”, or a couple of awesome guys from Detroit asked, “are these rims hot,”  “maybe you’re selling something other than trout trips??”  I just shrug and say no I just cleaned it.  
     Then I hear,  ” man the other guide’s truck was so dirty, I took my hat off for a second and it fell off of the seat. I didn’t find it until we got to the river.   It was stuck between a big mac wrapper and an empty Budweiser can. It was also covered in black lab hair”.  That won’t happen in my truck. I keep my truck clean and I don’t have a black lab.

     I just got back from guiding hunters in Eastern MT and it takes me a week to clean my truck. Got the gumbo off the bottom and deer blood out of box.  I then find all the new dents, dings, and scratches that I accumulated over the  season which makes me consequentially  pissed off for a while.    At least I have a truck!  Another guide I  worked with guided out of his Nissan pathfinder.  I remember meeting him on the road and saying “Scott did you guys kill one this morning?'”  I then look in the back seat and see a real nice 4×4 mule deer buck laying in the passenger seat, head back against the head rest, legs and hooves tied towards the window, tongue hanging out, and riding shotgun next to his happy hunter.  The deer definitely didn’t have a big grin on his face like Scott’s hunter did. I’m sure Scott’s truck is much harder to clean than mine.
  Any way I’m cleaning my truck, getting ready to get my guide license sent in, pulling flies out of my dash, and with a day like today in the upper 30’s really thinking I should be rowing a drift boat.