truck pictures

Get your load on, redux

Todd Dills | February 22, 2013

Following the Channel 19 "Get your load on" blog post from Jan. 31, readers responded with a (pardon the pun) load of pics of their own hot, heavy, big and tall or just plain odd ...

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Get your load on

Todd Dills | January 31, 2013

A few pics of readers' recent loads, shared via the upload form on our main page. Share yours today! This middle section of a 300-foot-tall windmill tower was sent in by reader Paul Goldstein. It ...

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More photos: Mel Davis’ custom Freightliner

Todd Dills | January 29, 2013

Following my post from three weeks back now about Michigan-based owner-operator Melvin Davis and his extra-long 1988 FLD reefer hauler with the early-80s vintage hood, Davis made his round down to Texas, over to Florida ...

Reality Check

Chase the holiday blues

Carolyn Magner | December 09, 2012

When Dallas-based model Ally Peer saw the costume I picked out for her, she started to laugh. I was relieved she had such a great sense of humor because out of all the photo shoots ...

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Owner-operator Dan Braun bags 1st place in K.C. truck show

Todd Dills | October 29, 2012

KMP Trucking independent owner-operator Dan Braun, 25, hauls out of Vermillion, S.D., in this 1999 Western Star 4964, powered by a turned-up 600-hp Detroit engine and a 10-speed Eaton transmission. With full custom fenders over ...

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PHOTOS: Cover shoot outtakes with crude hauler

Todd Dills | July 26, 2012

Jimmy Lessley (pictured), owner of Lessley Services in White Oak, Texas, has been an owner-operator or driver since the early 1980s. He started out hauling dirt with an end dump, then heavy equipment for a ...

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Two custom ’80s Petes for the cabover fanatics

Todd Dills | July 21, 2012

Dustin Kunkel, owner of Kunkel Welding in Crossville, Tenn., bought this 1988 Pete 362 in March of 2011, pulled it into the shop and called a couple of friends over. Twelve hours later "we rolled ...

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Two awesome class 8 motor coaches

Todd Dills | June 10, 2012

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 ...

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