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MY OFFICE IS A CAR: What I Keep in It to Work 200 Days a Year
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items I'm an apparel rep and I drive the Southeast - Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, the coast, Florida. The car isn't how I get to work, it is where I work. Samples ride in it, appointments happen out of it, and lunch a lot of days is whatever came out of ...
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When Something Goes Wrong on the Road
Hauling the Line
Where the Paperwork Actually Happens
When Something Goes Wrong on the Road
Two things that have gotten me out of a bad spot on the shoulder of a highway. Neither one is interesting until the morning you're an hour from an appointment with a soft tire or a battery that won't turn over.
A slow leak on a Sunday night before a Monday morning appointment is the whole reason this lives in the back. Set the pressure, hit go, it shuts itself off. It runs off the same 20V packs as my drills, off the car's 12V, or off a wall - three power o...
DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Portable Inflator
You will need this exactly once, and on that day it saves you a tow, a missed appointment, and an hour of your life waiting in a parking lot. Two and a half pounds, lives in the door pocket, holds a charge for months. It also charges a phone and has ...
NOCO Boost GB40 Jump Starter
Hauling the Line
I haul samples for a living, and how they show up is part of the pitch. A rack that rolls straight out of the back and a cooler that doesn't slide across the trunk every time I take an off-ramp.
This is the rack the industry actually uses, not the closet rack that folds under a full line. Z-shape means it nests and rolls through a doorway loaded, which matters when you're setting a showroom by yourself. The cheap ones bow in the middle and t...
Econoco Rolling Z-Rack
Lunch on the road is either gas station food or something you brought. This holds ice through a full day in a hot car, which is the only spec that matters. Get the wheeled one - you are loading and unloading it alone in a parking deck, and a full coo...
YETI Roadie 48 Wheeled Cooler
Where the Paperwork Actually Happens
The back seat is my desk about 200 days a year. Order entry in a parking lot, one brick that charges everything, and a laptop that doesn't quit halfway through a market week. Nothing here is fancy - it just has to work where there's no outlet and no ...
Trackpads are fine until you're doing spreadsheet work in a hotel room for two hours. Small enough to live in the laptop sleeve, charges off the same USB-C cable as everything else, and a charge lasts about a month. Not glamorous. It's just the diffe...
Apple Magic Mouse (USB-C)
Every order, every line sheet, every invoice goes through this. Get the terabyte drive - line sheets and product photos from a dozen brands add up faster than you'd think, and running out of room on the road is a genuinely bad afternoon. Sixteen-inch...
Lenovo ThinkPad T16 (16GB / 1TB SSD)
One brick charges the laptop, the phone and everything else at once - one thing to pack and one thing to forget in a hotel room instead of three. Hotel rooms never have enough outlets and the ones they do have are behind the bed. I keep a second one ...
Anker Nano 100W 3-Port USB-C Charger