In 2015, longtime regular readers of Overdrive may well remember, we were celebrating the 25th year of the Overdrive's Pride & Polish custom-rigs competition series, a big part of which had by then become our video spotlights on winning trucks and the owner-operators that enable them to exist. That year, we featured a 25-part series highlighting the top 25 most-watched custom-truck videos we'd produced up to that date.
Since that time, through both Overdrive's Youtube channel and Custom Rigs section, though, we've accelerated that recent-history video tradition beyond basic custom truck/trailer spotlights, delving increasingly also into the business stories of the owners with more expansive profiles – ongoing even now for our 2021 virtual Pride & Polish winners. (Small fleet owner Rob Hallahan and owner-operator Ron Kelsey's rigs and operations, if you missed them, are on display via those links.)
As part of our ongoing weekly series of look-backs for Overdrive's 60th anniversary, I took a look back through some of the most-watched videos at our YouTube channel, finding that a great many of them – compiled from all manner of truck shows around the nation, not just our own Pride & Polish events – fit the basic profile of the 25th-anniversary "25 for 25" series-featured vids. But: Most of them came from the six years that have passed since that time.
Read more in Overdrive's weekly 60th-anniversary series of lookbacks on trucking history, and that of the magazine itself, via this link.
These videos span the truck-show world, from the Overdrive's Pride & Polish events at past Dallas Great American Trucking Shows to MATS in Louisville, 4 State Trucks' Guilty by Association Truck Show, the Pennsylvania Truckers 4 Hope event and 10-4 on D.C. on the National Mall in Washington the last few years. There's a hotshot rig we detailed after meeting the owner not at a truck show but along I-24 at a truck stop, and a modified cargo van cab & chassis from a small fleet expediter encountered at Expedite Expo.
The list is led by a famous rig I had the absolute pleasure of seeing at the 2017 edition of Brad Wike's Southern Classic Truck Show in Lincolnton, North Carolina. You'll likely recall it from our re-feature of it recently as part of this series, too: the classic Rubber Duck Mack restored by and currently under the care of small fleet owner Anthony Fox in Rome, Georgia.
Enjoy the playlist here:
