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Overdrive Extra
Overdrive's Custom Rigs Showdown: Round 1 kicks off
With the 12-team College Football Playoff around the corner,
Overdrive
opens up this bracket-style challenge featuring the top 12 Custom Rigs videos published in 2025, to let you determine the overall winner for the year. Cast your round 1 votes by Dec. 17.
December 5, 2025
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'Peanut's Pride': Owner-op's second chance after close brush with death
Charles "Peanut" Pilkington and his 2005 Peterbilt 379, featured here, were lucky to survive this certifiable "act of God," a dramatic wreck caught on video. Here, he tells the story of the rig's resurrection, and new appreciation for his trucking life.
December 5, 2025
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March 24, 2025
Custom Rigs
Small fleet owner's '88 Pete 379 Pretty Bitchin' with B-model Cat
Three-truck fleet owner-operator Buck Crombie used inspiration from his wife to come up with the theme for his classic 379 -- country singer Miranda Lambert's song "Pretty Bitchin'." Several of the truck's details come from the song's lyrics.
December 4, 2025
Pride & Polish
Down to the wire: Cast your Pride & Polish votes
Today, November 30, is the deadline to help Overdrive honor the best of the best in our Pride & Polish virtual truck show. Tap through the image here to cast your vote for the best among readers' entered trucks in each of five categories: Antique, Interior, Limited Mileage, Working Bobtail, and Working Combo.
November 28, 2025
Custom Rigs
1977 Peterbilt 352 was owner's 22nd birthday gift, with custom resto by Peasterbilt
And a message of thanks from all of us at Overdrive on this Thanksgiving Day. Here's hoping it's well spent, whether at home or over the road. Here's thanks to you for what you do, and a classic gem of a cabover featuring its original Big Cam, a stretch to a 275-inch wheelbase and a new interior, built for the son of longtime bull hauler Chuck Callahan.
November 27, 2025
Custom Rigs
Cline Everhart's 'sweet' 1997 Peterbilt 362E marks 'end of the cabover era'
Everhart, the owner of 70-truck ETI, has grown the fleet from just five trucks when he began 30 years ago, today hauling dry van and flatbed freight. His personal cabover featured here has been custom-built to show, with very low miles for its age.
November 20, 2025
Custom Rigs
National champs crowned at Stars, Stripes and White Lines Truck Show
Four trucks were crowned National Champions at the event hosted by the Bennett Family of Companies. In addition to the competition, the event raised funds for Wreaths Across America.
November 18, 2025
Custom Rigs
Owner-op's 2000 International Eagle the 'Talk of the Town'
One-truck independent Johnny Saunders rebuilt his 2000 International after he downsized his fleet to a solo operation. Since the rebuild, the truck has garnered the attention of fellow owner-ops around Franklin, Virginia, earning the nickname "Talk of the Town."
November 13, 2025
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Red, white and 'Little Blue': The story of owner-operator Raiko Graveran
RGT Transport owner Graveran came to the United States in '08 on a raft from Cuba, ultimately able to gain legal permanent resident status with the immigration policy of the time. Today, he's the proud owner of a multi-award-winning custom '95 FLD flattop that cuts a unique picture on the show circuit.
November 7, 2025
Custom Rigs
The ‘Maximum Overdrive’-themed 1999 Western Star that made a marriage
Owner-operator Jackie Baggett sees his "Green Goblin" 1999 Western Star 4964EX as more than a work truck. The rig served a solemn duty as starting point of a relationship that led to his marriage. The truck today hauls oversize freight for Ace Doran.
November 6, 2025
Pride & Polish
Overdrive's Pride & Polish: Vote for your favorite rigs today
Cast your vote through Nov. 30 for the best truck in each of five categories: Antique, Interior, Limited Mileage, Working Bobtail, and Working Combo.
November 5, 2025
Custom Rigs
Stars, Stripes and White Lines Truck Show returns for 2025
The second annual truck show is being held at EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway) this weekend, Nov. 7-8. It will feature the invite-only National Truck Show Championship, live entertainment and more with fundraising efforts going toward Wreaths Across America.
November 3, 2025
Custom Rigs
'A Touch of Class': Greg Kiser Trucking's custom '08 Pete makes old-school style new
The Virginia-based fleet bought the rig with a lot of work already done to it, but the company has totally transformed the interior with a full Rockwood setup, plenty of lights and more.
October 30, 2025
Custom Rigs
Four truck builders to compete in 2026 MATS Big Rig Build-Off
Defending Big Rig Build-Off champ Luke Rethwisch will return to compete against James Stegall with Stegall's Truck Shop, Randy Menkel with Never Satisfied Builds, and Andrew Ditz with Stickerbilt Customs.
October 24, 2025
Custom Rigs
Rebuilt 2002 Pete 379 dump truck a father's tribute to late son
North Carolina-based owner-operator Richard Puckett had this 2002 Peterbilt 379 dump truck rebuilt to honor his late son, Jody, who was the rig's primary driver. The truck is mostly as it was when Jody drove it, apart from an impressive new paint job.
October 23, 2025
Custom Rigs
Pride, Class, 50-plus remarkable rigs: Owners honored in Pete parade
The 8th annual Peterbilt Pride & Class Parade was held Oct. 17 at the town square in downtown Denton, Texas, home to Peterbilt Motors Company and its truck manufacturing plant. The event helps raise money for the local United Way chapter.
October 21, 2025
Life
Last week to enter 'Flashiest Fleets' competition
Overdrive sister publication CCJ is accepting nominations for the contest, open to fleets of all sizes operating equipment ranging from small vans and pickups to tractor-trailers. Add your fleet to the mix with up to three images of your trucks and/or trailers.
October 17, 2025
Custom Rigs
'Dressed to the Nines': 2023 Peterbilt 389 spec'd for excavation heavy haul
Hammett Excavation's custom 2023 Peterbilt 389 day cab is built for heavy-haul to pull an 85-ton trailer used to haul the company's excavators from job site to job site with a nine-axle setup.
October 16, 2025
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'Peanut's Pride': Owner-op's second chance after close brush with death
Charles "Peanut" Pilkington and his 2005 Peterbilt 379, featured here, were lucky to survive this certifiable "act of God," a dramatic wreck caught on video. Here, he tells the story of the rig's resurrection, and new appreciation for his trucking life.
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Small fleet owner's '88 Pete 379 Pretty Bitchin' with B-model Cat
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