Buck Crombie, based out of Checotah, Oklahoma, began his trucking career in 2012, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. That wasn’t his first intention, though. He started out working in the oil fields, not driving. Then hauling became a part of the job, and it stuck.
Like many truckers out there, he drove somebody else’s equipment, but a couple years into the gig, “I was working for a guy, and he said, ‘As hard as you work,’ he said, ‘you’d make great owning your own.’” The company owner told Crombie that if he ever decided to start his own trucking business, let him know.
Buck Crombie
He’s since transitioned away from oil-field work and now hauls a lot of sod and brick for new home builds, schools and other ventures. With his home base in Oklahoma, he typically runs regionally between his home state and Texas and Arkansas.
All of the company’s work is flatbed, and the fleet moves forklifts along with the freight to do their own unloading at build sites.
As of the Shell Rotella SuperRigs working truck show in May, Crombie was operating three trucks under his authority, with company drivers in two units and one truck he drives himself -- the 1988 Peterbilt 379 featured in the video up top.
Crombie's rig was built in the theme of the Miranda Lambert song "Pretty Bitchin'." The white-lettered tires, pink carpet in the sleeper and other features are nods to the song's lyrics.
Crombie’s the fourth owner of the 379, and it’s only been registered in Oklahoma throughout its 37-year life. He bought it as a daycab, but the unit had been outfitted with a 63-inch stand-up sleeper from the factory. Since his purchase, Crombie added a flattop sleeper and stretched the frame from 260 to 308 inches.
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Those upgrades were just the beginning, though. “We’ve completely redone the whole truck,” he said. “When I bought it, it was just an old farm truck, and it was my first 379 I ever bought.”
While not featured in this video, as Crombie swapped out some of the parts to be more family-friendly for the truck show, his usual grille “has chrome naked ladies cut out in it.” He also took off other similar pieces “that I put all over it to go with the theme of ‘Pretty Bitchin’.”
The rig is powered by a B-model Cat with a 15-speed transmisison and 3.36 rears. Crombie made modifications to the engine, with “a bigger turbo, bigger air-to-air, bigger aftermarket exhaust manifold on it," he said. "I’ve turned it up, but I’ve never put it on a dyno.”
He didn’t plan on building the rig into a show-quality unit, but about three years ago, it was hit in a truck stop parking lot. “It got backed into and took the whole driver’s side off of it, so it left me no choice” but to rebuild it, he said.
Crombie’s wife, Shawna, was a big inspiration for the rebuild project, as noted largely based on the Miranda Lambert song “Pretty Bitchin’,” which is also the truck’s nickname.
“My wife loves Miranda Lambert, and I figured that song would fit with the colors really well,” he said. “And my wife’s favorite colors are black and purple,” two of the three on the unit. She's not a big fan of pink, but Buck decided that’s the color that was needed for a stripe to set off the black and purple.
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During the build, Crombie “tried to do everything I could to tie that song in all around the truck," he said. "White-lettering the tires, pink carpet in the truck to match the song. We just kind of went through and tried to tie everything down and have a good theme.”
The theme extends all the way to the striped rear fenders and a purple frame.
The rig’s interior features black leather with pink diamond stitching, painted doors to match the exterior stripes, and pink carpet in the sleeper.
The floor is also painted black with purple and pink stripes to extend the exterior striping inside the cab.
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Buck Crombie: So this truck here is an '88 model 379. I'm the fourth owner of it. It's only been registered in Oklahoma its whole entire life. When I bought it, it was originally a day cab and 260-inch wheelbase, and it originally from the factory, had a 63-inch standup on it, but I put this flat top on it and then I stretched it, put a '06 Peterbilt Flex Air cutoff on it and stretched it to 308.
So I own 3C Express and my name's Buck and we're out of Checotah, Oklahoma. My dad drove, my grandfather drove. It's just kind of been around, and I didn't want nothing to do with trucking. And then I got into the oil field, and then I just got into oil field trucking, and now here I am. I just couldn't get rid of it. I went into business for myself in 2015, I believe.
I was working for a guy and he said, "As hard as you work, you'd make great owning your own." He said, "If you ever decide to do it, just let me know." And I said, "Let's do it." And he just looked at me. He said, "Really?" And I was like, yeah. And so I went out and bought a truck and I leased it on to him, and I stayed there for a couple years before I decided to do something different.
I've got two other trucks currently on top of this one that I'm running. They're both Peterbilts. One's a short hood and the other one's an extended hood standup, 379s.
We've completely redone the whole truck. When I bought it, it was just the old farm truck and it was my first 379 I ever bought, and I used it in the oil field, and still use it today.
It's got a B-model Cat with a 15-speed and 3.36 rears. I've got a bigger turbo, bigger air to air, bigger aftermarket exhaust manifold on it. I've turned it up, but I've never put it on a dyno.
So when I rebuilt it this time, I went off of a Miranda Lambert song called "Pretty Bitchin'", and I've just tried to do everything I could to tie that song in all around the truck. White lettered the tires. I put pink carpet in the truck to match the song. We just kind of went through and tried to tie everything down and have a good theme. I just thought it'd be a cool truck show theme.
My wife loves Miranda Lambert, and I figured that song would fit with the colors really well. And my wife's favorite colors are black and purple. She was a little mad I put pink on it. She's like, "I don't like pink," but it got pink put on it. Anyway, I think it just kind of helps make it pop and kind of bring out some of the color in it. Some of that wow factor, you got to have a wow factor. The purple's illusion purple. The pink is 1970 Dodge Challenger Panther Pink, and then it's just regular black, flat black.
That's an old grille that, I was told I couldn't have my grille for this in the show. It has chrome naked ladies cut out in it, and they deemed that that was probably not professional. And that's also what the truck was named before I rebuilt it. It was "Ruby." It was originally named "Ruby." So we've redone it and I have a whole bunch of chrome naked lady stuff that I put all over it to go with the theme of Pretty Bitchin', but they said that that would probably be frowned upon, so we removed it for this show.
We painted the doors on the inside to match the stripes on the outside, and we also painted the stripes on the floor in the cab, and the sleeper I put pink carpet to kind of match the song because the song says there's pretty pink carpet on the floor. So we just tried to do a whole lot of stuff to tie everything all together. We put purple lights in it, JML lights. Looks pretty sharp at night.
I didn't plan on redoing it, but it got wrecked and so that's why I rebuilt it. It was at a Love's Truck Stop and it got backed into and took the whole driver's side off of it. So left me no choice. Here we are.
