Tag: trucking shows

Voices

POLL: Do you have a favorite among trucking and truck shows around the country?

Overdrive would like to know which local/regional truck show and national truck show is your favorite? Take our poll and let us know.

August 13, 2018

Business

Countdown to GATS initiated

“Dallas is the pinnacle when it comes to truck shows, Texas-sized and with that old-money glitz and charm The Big D exudes. … An awesome thing to see.”

August 21, 2015

Custom Rigs

Roundup: River States in Wis. hosting show, hanging a fuel-mileage shingle, new vid series…

Overdrive’s Pride & Polish heads to Wisconsin in 2014, with River States Customz in La Crosse hosting.

November 7, 2013

Channel 19

‘Harder than it looks’ — mainstream biz reporter takes big-truck wheel

Biz reporter Lauren Boyer of the York Daily Record faces down fears of highway driving around big trucks to take the wheel herself; a round-up of truck/trucking shows near-term and down the road…

June 22, 2013

Business

MATS 2013 walk-through

Owner-operator George Parker shot the walk-through vid during his miles of exploration of the show floor in the mammoth Kentuck Expo Center with a GoPro camera mounted on his baseball cap.

March 27, 2013

Business

Driver social media meet dates set

The 2013 Truck Driver Social Media Convention will take place Oct. 11-13 in Kansas City, Mo.

March 8, 2013

Business

Charlotte Diesel Show to host two world record attempts

At the zMax Dragway, in Concord, N.C., on Oct. 6, CDSS attendees will have the chance to see the Aaron’s Outdoor monster truck attempt a world speed record and stunt motor cycle driver Jesse Toler attempt a world stoppie record.

October 1, 2012

Voices

Long-haul pride lives in new generation

Around the internet, a new generation of drivers and owner-operators is reaching out to those who’ve come before.

September 17, 2012

Channel 19

Awesome trucks and the fruits of debate: Two events upcoming

Round-up of two events upcoming: the big 2nd Annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention meeting Oct. 27-28 and the ATHS Cookeville, Tenn., truck show Sept. 27-28.

July 25, 2012

Channel 19

Two custom ’80s Petes for the cabover fanatics

These two Peterbilt 362s, owned by Dustin Kunkel and John Bradford, respectively, we caught out at the Crossville, Tenn., show of the ATHS Music City Chapter.

July 21, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Have you seen this custom truck lately?

A look back here a few years to the Custom Rigs magazine vid of Doug Fisher’s The Gambler 2007 Peterbilt 379 Legacy edition, which among other features sports of an actual shotgun as the shifter and a signature by none other than the original Gambler himself, Kenny Rogers. A commenter on the vid at our […]

June 22, 2012

Channel 19

The haps at MATS: Rounding up driver-led efforts

I’ll make an attempt, at least. So much is going on at next week’s trucking show in Louisville it will be next to impossible to catch it all in this space today, but here are a few of the highlights folks have reached out to me about these last few months: Health walk-and-talk, blood driveAs […]

March 16, 2012