Owner-operator’s ‘grain hauling machine’

Overdrive Staff
Nov 14, 2014

Parker

V.E. Parker calls his 2012 Freightliner Cascadia and 2014 Timpte Super Hopper a “grain-hauling machine.” Parker says he’s added a few chrome accents and train horns to the rig.

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