What a ride it has been! From washing a Massey 44 at my father’s Massey Ferguson dealership at age 10 to working on my uncle’s farm in my grade 8-12 summers.

“It’s a way to bring customers onto our service team and teach them what we know. They won’t grasp everything, but they’ll take some knowledge back to their own operation and it will give them confidence in what they’re doing.” 

The latest Day in the Cab installment takes us to the northwest corner of Illinois, where precision specialist Dave Thompson holds down the fort for Johnson Tractor in the small town of Amboy — one of 11 locations for the Illinois and Wisconsin Case IH dealer.