Clean Lucille: Owner-op’s freshly polished Peterbilt

May 8, 2015

Updated May 11, 2015

Owner-operator Coby Heard uploaded this picture of his blue Peterbilt, which he calls Lucille, to Overdrive’s Reader Rig gallery earlier this week. The photo was taken in front of Big Boyz Toyz in Rayburn, La., following a “bath and polish,” Heard says.

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