Owner-operator Horace Goldman's classic Pride & Polish-winning standard-hood Peterbilt 359 is from the very last year of the iconic model, 1987. Yet it was "built in September of 1986," the owner-op said.
Goldman well knows its history. He's hauled in it as of this week for 23 years. Previously, a company from his native Minnesota pulled reefers with it, then a farmer owned it and hauled grain with it. From there, a buddy of Goldman's bought it, and the 359 "went from my buddy’s hands to me" in short order, where it's remained ever since.
The rig turned plenty heads in Overdrive's 2022 virtual Pride & Polish truck show, where it was crowned champ in the Working Bobtail, 2014 & Older category.
Goldman hauls heavy and oversize leased to T.J. Potter Trucking, on a straight 78% of the load -- 82% if it's a brokered load, he said. Loaded with a locomotive engine surround on a 48-foot RGN lowboy when Overdrive spoke to Goldman in December, he noted other work with a variety of trailers Potter owns. "A lot of what I do is with a double-drop stretch or a step-deck stretch."
One among the winning pictures of Goldman's well-maintained classic showed a mini-deck double-drop whose platform sits four inches off the ground from the bottom of the deck -- it's "17 inches above the ground before you load," Goldman said.
The plane as it sat after loading and adjusting height was 15'8
