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Trucker reportedly attacked over parking spot in Florida
According to a report from Villages-News.com, the trucker was asleep in his rig when 51-year-old Brian James Cozzie, of Eaton Rapids, Michigan, started beating on his truck and ordering him to move. The report states the unnamed driver, who was allegedly taking up two parking spaces, told Cozzie he wasn’t going to move.
November 14, 2018
Business
Cabovers, chrome and cool people
Introducing recently-retired owner-operator Sherman Kerns and his 1980 Peterbilt cabover, Jamaican trucker Owen Aird and more from the Overdrive’s Pride & Polish event in Wildwood, Fla., at 75 Chrome Shop.
April 22, 2016
Custom Rigs
Things that don’t travel well for a thousand, Alex
George on Wendy’s trucking conversion: ““If you had told me five years ago my nurse wife would be rating chrome polish for a truck we’re going to show, I would have thought you were crazy.”
April 8, 2016
Custom Rigs
I kissed a truck (and I liked it)
“Our first Wildwood experience was awesome! … Our Precious took 3rd in the Wash and Show portion of the Pride and Polish competition,” among other happenings…
April 29, 2015
Pride & Polish
75 Chrome Shop Pride & Polish winners: ‘Disorderly Conduct,’ three others pick up Best of Show wins
In addition to Roccapriore’s ’99 Pete, three others won Best of Show honors, qualifying all for the 2015 Pride & Polish National Championship. Here’s a full list of winners and photos of the Best of Show trucks.
April 26, 2015
Pride & Polish
Photos: Pride & Polish show trucks on display at 75 Chrome Shop Show
The first Overdrive’s Pride & Polish show of 2015 is this weekend at the 75 Chrome Shop Show in Wildwood, Fla. Here’s a look at some of the trucks on display.
April 24, 2015
Business
Happy people have sunburned knees
In which George and Wendy burn up the swamps in Nick Shaughnessy’s air boat, and Overdrive’s Pride & Polish in Wildwood gets well under way.
April 24, 2015
Custom Rigs
PHOTOS: OMG so much chrome!
En route to Miami, George and Wendy stop off for a preview of the 75 Chrome Shop, the location of the first Pride & Polish event of the season in a week or two.
April 12, 2015
Custom Rigs
How does a weigh station work?
Working in part with truckers following Overdrive’s 2014 Florida Pride & Polish, Chris Fiffie of Big Rig Videos turned his camera on the technology, procedures behind the Wildwood, Fla., weigh station
March 10, 2015
Custom Rigs
Showing strong: Kling Towing & Recovery’s 2013 FL 122SD
The truck represents the first such 112SD built out as a heavy-haul wrecker, and Kling put no small measure of pride and sweat into the customizations.
August 3, 2013
Custom Rigs
Photos: Custom trucks, good times at Wildwood show
There was much fun to be had simply gawking at the custom trucks and motorcycles. There was even a Marilyn Monroe impersonator. Here’s a full gallery.
April 30, 2013
Business
Pride & Polish winners named at Wildwood
Ron Huey’s 2010 International ProStar won Best of Show Working Bobtail and Mike Hug’s 2007 Peterbilt 379 took Best of Show Combo.
April 12, 2011
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