Tag: Custom Rigs magazine

Channel 19
Truck Stop Missouri redux; American Trucker GATS episode tonight
Truck Stop Missouri a ‘trucking ambassador’ in reality? After my interview posted yesterday with Joe Bechtold, General Manager of the Midway Truck Stop and Travel Plaza that is the subject of the Truck Stop Missouri TV show on the Travel Channel, a longtime commenter on the Channel 19 blog took issue with Bechtold’s characterization of […]
October 6, 2011
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Channel 19
Worth more than 78 words
Custom Rigs Editor Bruce W. Smith took this fanciful pic of three hot haulers at the Shell SuperRigs event June 2-4 at the Kenly 95 Petro in Kenly, N.C., this year. The flattop’s hauling gallon jugs of Shell Rotella products, the Big Lonestar a company display trailer. The mid-size Lonestar lookalike, well, you can check […]
July 1, 2011
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Channel 19
Hardage custom combo unit gets final fix
You might remember Jeff Hardage, owner of the J&C Investments small fleet, based in Garland, Texas, if you’ve been paying any attention whatsoever to the news coming out of the Pride & Polish competitions at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas the past several years. Most recently, I wrote about Hardage’s son Eric’s 1963 […]
June 9, 2011
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Channel 19
Owner-operator Jerry Kissinger named to new Shell ‘Million-Mile’ club
His is a familiar face — to me, anyway. At MATS this week, Jerry Kissinger was named to Shell Rotella’s new Million Mile Haul of Fame, introduced to honor drivers who respect their rig and its engine, and take pride in a job well done. Kissinger, owner-operator of a 1991 Mack Superliner, was honored as the […]
April 1, 2011
Kissinger Shell
Channel 19
New diesel thieves; ‘American Trucker’ visits the custom shops
High-tech diesel thieves You know fuel prices are bad when you start seeing reports such as the one published yesterday via the website of Central Florida’s WFTV. “Some long-haul truckers found a new way to steal diesel, Marion County deputies said Wednesday,” WFTV reported. Deputies apparently arrested three separate haulers who were passing off a […]
March 17, 2011
Botelho
Business
Highway Idols
For Overdrive readers, the road to Paradise has always been populated with their dependable, good-looking rigs.
November 1, 2010
Plainfield, Ill.-based owner-operator Bob “Mighty Rat” Ratterree told Overdrive his 1987 Autocar was “built like a tank.” The truck was Tractor of the Month in the November 1987 issue. It was equipped with a 425-hp Caterpillar and a 13-speed Eaton transmission.
Channel 19
‘Workin’ Class’ — a new trucking tune from Leland Martin
It’s named after owner-operator Colin Stuart’s “big ol’ Peterbilt all decked out and tricked out with beautiful murals of horses on the sides of the trailer,” country crooner Leland Martin told my colleagues over at Custom Rigs magazine — “Workin’ Class” is the latest in Martin’s catalog, written after meeting owner-operator Stuart and posing for […]
October 18, 2010
Business
Pride and Polish
Pat and Jonathan Eilen dominate working classes at Dallas Pride & Polish.
October 1, 2010
KMT 359, a 1983 Peterbilt 359 owned by orange hauler Kevin McIntyre, won Best of Show in the new Builder’s Class category.
Business
Spring Custom Rigs hits stands
The new issue is available at select Petros and Flying J truck stops, among several locations.
February 26, 2010
Inside Spread In Spring Issue Of Custom Rigs
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