custom rigs

Art therapy: Jeff Botelho’s ’5150′

| May 13, 2013

Until last year, says Jeff Botelho, customizing trucks was more a highly advanced hobby than anything else for himself and crew at the Botelho’s Custom Trucks shop in Los Banos, Calif. He runs his family’s Botelho ...

Street Rod Extreme: Scott Diller’s 1981 KW W900A

| May 07, 2013

To say Scott Diller will go to extremes to get the look he wants in his show truck is an understatement. From the time he rescued a 1981 Kenworth W900A that was destined for the junkyard ...

Longhaul Survivor benefit truck raffle

| May 02, 2013

Michael Heiderscheit is not a trucker in any literal sense of the word, but he's the son-in-law of Iowa-based Eldon Jaeger, owner-operator of Eldon Jaeger Trucking and the lead man behind the sweet Pete pictured ...

Rum Runner: ’89 Pete 379

| April 24, 2013

When California flatbed hauler Ernesto Rubio turns into the Old Castle Precast prefabrication facility in the heart of Fontana’s industrial area, the security guards at the main gate wave him through as if he were ...

Council Bluffs truck show bigger and better this yearVideo

| April 20, 2013

Peterbilt of Council Bluffs, Iowa, has big plans for their truck show this year, scheduled for Saturday, May 4. I've written about the show before -- you'll recall this awesome bull hauler, a big winner ...

Western Star hosting design contest

| March 21, 2013

Western Star Truck Sales launched “The Design Our Star Project” to build a Western Star show truck from the ground up with features determined by popular vote through social media channels. The completed truck will ...

De-Elegant Model Truck Fleet builds trucking icons with new magVideo

| March 21, 2013

McClinton's new magazine features stories behind the iconic trucks of the American trucking industry. Find it on Facebook here. Legendary truck model builder Kuenn McClinton (pictured above) is on a mission to spotlight the soldiers ...

The wrap on Continental’s custom LoneStarVideo

| March 21, 2013

Continental Tire's 2010 International LoneStar got a makeover this past December, says company rep Alex Chmiel, with the Chrome Shop Mafia folks at 4 State Trucks in Joplin, Mo., putting a carbon-fiber wrap on most ...

Who’s keeping score: Carrier use of driver-ranking tools

The final installment in our investigation of third-party driver-scorecard services details carrier practices using the tools to rank current and/or prospective drivers in the perspective of CSA.

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