Bill Hall’s silver and purple custom Pete 379 Legacy

Aug 04, 2015

Part of the multi-fleet, multi-generational Hall clan out of San Antonio, the video above features Bill Hall talking about his 2007 Peterbilt 379 Legacy Edition, a special edition Pete among the last of the 379s ever built. The Halls, made up of a band of several full families, haul aggregates and other dump loads mostly in the San Antonio area.

Editor’s note: Hall owns and runs B & E Trucking, which is unaffiliated with his late cousin’s San Antonio-based Bill Hall Jr. Trucking.

The 1978 Peterbilt 352 was a model who in earlier years had been driven by Bowerman's father, who passed several years earlier. This one, purchased from a prior owner in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, has origins in Illinois, Bowerman said, and is powered by a Cat 3406A run through a 15-speed transmission, 190-inch wheelbase.

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