Tag: white line fever

Custom Rigs

1974 ‘Low Patrol’ Ford W9000: Robb Mariani’s white whale

The long saga of Mariani’s 2014 SuperRigs best show truck is a story of making inner vision reality — and the results, a single-drive-axle cabover big-rig hot rod, are something to write home about.

June 18, 2014

Channel 19

Former operator’s novel immortalizes trail-blazing independents

Fred Afflerbach didn’t set out to launch a trucking career when he took a job working for a Bekins Van Lines-affiliated moving company in Austin, Texas, in high school in the 1970s. He caught the fever all the same. “The owner-operators would come rolling in and the drivers are telling stories and your eyes are […]

March 13, 2012

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Night Vision

Driving in the dark requires special skills and preparation.

February 1, 2012

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Exit Only

New trucking show on Speed Channel strives for depth through industry portraits.

March 1, 2011