Zebie Daniel’s The Game Changer has all the class of his nickname — Cadillac — and all the spunk of a one-of-a-kind customized truck.
Zebie Daniel, of Tomball, Texas, hauls liquid oxygen for GenOx Transportation of Deer Park, Texas.“I figured it’s time we brought something different to the equation,” Daniel said last August at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas. “That’s why I call it The Game Changer.”
His 1998 International 9800 Eagle won Second in Bobtail, First Show, in Overdrive’s Pride & Polish at the 2015 GATS.
He says his nickname originated when he was about to become an owner-operator.
“My family has this thing, when you become your own businessman, you need your own CB handle,” he said, recalling a time when he and a friend were discussing possible names. “He liked Cadillac Man. ‘You always drive Cadillacs. You’re on your fourth Cadillac already.’ So that’s how Cadillac Man got started. It rings like a bell with all the customers I service with this company.”
Daniel is especially proud of the truck’s colors: “Corvette Daytona Sunrise Orange, against metallic gray.” The interior work – floor, ceiling and seats – was done by Big Truck Paint and Body of Houston, Texas.
As Daniel shows in this video, his rig has several special touches: suicide doors, a rear window taken from a pickup truck, an ornate steering wheel that says “98 Caddy” and bears the Cadillac emblem, an extra-tall shifter made from an aluminum fence post in his yard, and a fuel tank converted to storage tank, accessible via a hinged lid.
