When Mark Pankey’s not operating planes you can probably find him in the industry vehicle he’s transformed into a mobile dwelling.
This Southwest Airlines employee lives in a decommissioned part of his job.
“I had seen these box trucks at work, and I thought about how cool would it be to live in one of those, or to build one out,” Pankey, a Louisiana-born pilot for Southwest Airlines,After expressing as much to a fellow pilot, his colleague alerted him to the fact a “a whole bunch” of the catering box trucks — which have a scissor lift so food and beverages can be more easily offloaded onto the aircraft — were being auctioned off in Seattle.
At that point, the Air Force veteran had long lived in a Crested Butte, Colorado apartment complex and, when convenient, out of his van — which he’d park in the airport lot and sleep out of between jobs instead of spending money on hotels.
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