Earl,
In my list of things that made what we accomplished possible I failed to mention that careful handling and care on the road kept down the amount of repair required on a daily basis.
We always used to tease eachother by me saying "that if you guys on the road would just take care of stuff it would never break" and you saying "that if we would just fix it right it wouldn't ever break down".
In truth you did a good job of getting them over the road and letting us know what was wrong when something was amiss.