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Cabover fanatics, this one’s for you: 1973 K100 vid
Bill Bradford’s video of the restoration of his antique Kenworth COE.
June 25, 2012
Channel 19
Farm to market in style — Bill Blankenship’s 1978 W900A
Bill Blankenship, who with his son, Jerry, runs the McMinnville-based Blankenship Farms & Nursery business, found this member of the 1978 class of Kenworth’s long-running W900 model eight years ago, buying it to haul the products of his business. Today, after a long restore-and-rebuild process, he hauls trees to customers week-in, week-out — “32 trips […]
June 17, 2012
Channel 19
Crossville classic — Bill Bradford’s FL 9664T
I’m out at the Crossville, Tenn., truck show of the Music City Chapter of the American Truck Historical Society, where things are just getting under way. Bill Bradford, semi-retired owner of a business selling Land Rover parts in South Pittsburg, Tenn. (between Monteagle and Chattanooga), is here with this sweet long-wheelbase (relatively) 1978 Freightliner cabover, […]
June 15, 2012
Channel 19
Vegas trucking tweets and Music City peeps
The Great West Truck Show gets going today out in Las Vegas, running through Saturday with vendor exhibits, the Custom Rigs Pride & Polish competition, CCJ‘s Fleet Executive Conference (under way as of yesterday — some news here from the first panel on challenges and opportunities trucking the rarefied California environment of late) and more. Follow Overdrive‘s Twitter feed @OverdriveUpdate — […]
June 14, 2012
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Two awesome class 8 motor coaches
The first comes by way of the Southeastern Regional Truck Show and the awesome pair of Hyler Bracey and Cass Flagg, the former of whom you may well remember as one of the folks behind the “Big Horn” moving museum(click through that link for a story about its conception.Some years later, Bracey was looking for […]
June 10, 2012
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Holloway Sisters, good music, nice truck, and a joke
Nice truck, don’t you think? Drivers, meet the Holloway Sisters, Michelle (right) and Sondra, both of whom we met here next to Jimmy Jabo’s custom 1953 Ford F100 on the grounds of Chilhowee Park in Knoxville, Tenn. at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show a couple weekends back. The sisters performed with their family band, Outta […]
April 29, 2012
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Heck of a farm truck: Custom 359 single-axle flatbed, with wide singles
Tom Crawford, owner and operator of the Farmer’s Market in Cashiers in far Western North Carolina, showed this custom-restored 1975 Peterbilt 359 flatbed daycab, outfitted with Michelin wide singles on the single axle rear end, at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show in Knoxville April 13 and 14. It was one among many I saw there […]
April 25, 2012
Channel 19
More trucks, scenes from Knoxville show last week
Cinderella sleeper storyI was stoked at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show in Knoxville, Tenn., last weekend when, on Saturday morning, this yellow Mack pulled into the lot with none other than my childhood hometown of Rock Hill, S.C., lettered on the doors. The unit is the four-year project, completed when he put the truck in […]
April 22, 2012
Voices
Roadside Attractions
A trucker joins a national fitness program, a natural born truck driver, a truck makes its film debut, plus Truck Gallery, Channel 19, Calendar events and more industry news items are featured.
March 1, 2012
Channel 19
Safe-cracking time: The Evel Knievel haul rig restore-in-progress
If all goes well, says American Trucker host Robb Mariani, tomorrow he, North Carolina-based Brad Wike and the rig’s owner will at least attempt to crack a gallon-size safe found under a cabinet in the floor of the Evel Knievel haul rig Mariani located and featured on his show last year (check out the “Finding […]
February 17, 2012
Channel 19
ATHS Music City Chapter kicks off the new year
Thanks to Rhonda Reagan (pictured) for the invite to the American Truck Historical Society Music City Chapter’s year-beginning meeting and auction this past Saturday, Jan. 14. Held at an elementary school in Lebanon, Tenn., the event drew a crowd near 100 strong, made up of members and their families as well as representatives from other […]
January 17, 2012
Business
21st Annual Music City Chapter ATHS Antique and Working Truck Show
SEPT. 23-24: (931) 277-5177 or
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