Rawhide Respect: Ryan Hooten’s 1995 Peterbilt 379
Ryan Hooten ran his black cherry ’95 Peterbilt 379 until it was struggling for breath. Bearing down on the 1.5-million mile mark in late 2007, “It was getting pretty tired,” he says of the rig, ...
Art therapy: Jeff Botelho’s ’5150′
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
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 ...
Photos: Custom trucks, good times at Wildwood show
The 75 Chrome Shop Show in Wildwood, Fla., plays host annually to the first Pride & Polish event of the year, welcoming spring in Sunshine State fashion. The winners were announced Sunday — Click here ...
Nice stripes: Bold-banded Petes take Best of Show in Wildwood
Richfield, Wis., resident Vinnio Diorio's 2013 Peterbilt 389 and matching 2008 MAC trailer won Best of Show in the Working Combo category. It was a good weekend for striped paint jobs in Wildwood, Fla., April ...
Rum Runner: ’89 Pete 379
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 ...
Bill Hall Jr.’s True Blue
When the wrecker dropped the hook and set this once-smashed ’01 379 Peterbilt at the Bill Hall Jr. Trucking Company main terminal, no one was quite sure where to start the rebuild process. The front ...
Flirting with Disaster: Troy Huddleston’s ’91 Classic
Showtime Trucking owner Troy Huddleston has no regrets about converting what was a ’91 Freightliner FLD to a square-ended Freightliner Classic. “I always like the square front better,” Huddleston admits, and when the truck needed ...
CSA'S DATA TRAIL
Crashes and interventions: Blitzkrieg probes coming to trucking
The FMCSA's quick-strike sweep through "high-risk" passenger carriers, say officials, will be hitting our industry sooner rather than later. Knowing the agency's definition of a high-risk carrier is your first step in avoiding involuntary shutdown.
Inconsistent enforcement: CSA’s heat index
Crashes and interventions: CSA’s crash flaw
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