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Tag: Tobby Donalson
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Retirement rewards: Tobby Donalson’s 1959 Peterbilt 351
Two years after saying goodbye to the highway, independent owner-operator Tobby Donalson finished a rig he waited nearly 30 years for the time to rebuild just right
June 29, 2016
Custom Rigs
Pride & Polish winners in Crossville, Tenn.
Big winners from the latest installment in Overdrive’s truck-beauty National Championship series in Crossville, Tenn.
June 29, 2013
Channel 19
When trucks were trucks: Familiar faces at Fitzgerald’s
Bill Blankenship of McMinnville, Tenn., showed off a classic find of a 1953 GMC 630, powered by a 134-hp Detroit diesel, at the Pride & Polish at Fitzgerald’s.
June 29, 2013
Channel 19
Scenes of Chrome & Class
That’s David Holbrook’s 1986 Peterbilt 359, winner of both Working Bobtail and People’s Choice awards in the second annual Chrome & Class Truck Show, held at the Rush Truck Center location in Smyrna, Tenn., on I-24 just southeast of Nashville. It was a much expanded show this year, with near double the number of entered […]
October 26, 2011
Channel 19
Memphis expo and Nashville show this weekend
Outreach, education in Memphis I had the good fortune of meeting Niki Brown and her husband, independent owner-operator Steve Nelson, this past weekend at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention (if you missed my reporting from the event, find two stories here and here) in Tunica, Miss., due south of their Memphis home base. They’re […]
October 19, 2011
Voices
Roadside Attractions
A trucker helps grant a wish, smoothing the pavement, how to cut tension, a truck gallery and more trucking industry news items are featured.
September 1, 2011
Channel 19
Calling all independents; New profile series seeks nominations
Are you an owner-operator running with your own authority? A two-three-truck fleet owner with a unique approach to trucking success? If you’ve been following Overdrive Dollars & Sense columnist and radio host Kevin Rutherford’s columns over the past couple months, you know he’s gotten into a series about taking your business to the next level […]
July 25, 2011
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