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Pride & Polish
Overdrive's 2022 Pride & Polish competition
The Pride & Polish virtual truck beauty show gives contestants a chance to show off their rigs and be chosen by their peers as the best of the best. Submissions are being accepted through Sept. 5. Enter your rig for 2022 show-season bragging rights.
July 19, 2022
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Jeffrey Tucker's 2015 Mack Pinnacle
The rig is powered by a 505-hp Mack MP8 with a Mack mDrive 12-speed. Tucker pulls 39-foot aluminum frameless dump trailers.
August 12, 2022
Custom Rigs
800-horse '93 Peterbilt 379 'Ten Dimes'
For all there is to love on this 800-horse, overweight-hauling classic Peterbilt, owner-operator Arien Ruell says the best part was the relationships forged building it. On what happened to be his wedding day, go behind the scenes with "Ten Dimes."
August 12, 2022
Custom Rigs
Inside the spectacular '86 vintage 359 of an Arkansas-based grain hauler
Randy Victory's "Nut Buster" 359 was rebuilt from the ground up after he bought the rig four years ago. The truck's name came to be when Victory was rebuilding the truck, and his wife, Missy, saw his busted knuckles and called him "a nut."
August 11, 2022
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William Ankney's 2019 Freightliner Coronado glider
The rig is powered by a Detroit 60 Series with an 18-speed. Ankney makes East Coast to West Coast runs weekly, pulling a step deck.
August 9, 2022
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'Never Satisfied' 1999 Freightliner Classic XL
The husband and wife team behind J&W Trucking geared this pre-emissions rig specifically for car hauling, and it runs cars down from Maine to Florida every winter for the "snowbirds."
August 8, 2022
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Elam Martin's 1985 Kenworth K100
Martin pulls flatbed and step deck trailers with the Cat-powered cabover.
August 5, 2022
Custom Rigs
Owner-operator C.G. Soza's 2016 Kenworth W900L 'Always Headed Home'
Soza's goal of stylistic mods that don't sacrifice increased function and performance, safety or otherwise, is well evident in this radically transformed 2016 Kenworth W900L, also a monument to the owner-operator's chief destination on any run: home.
August 4, 2022
Reader Rigs
Richard Smith's 1987 Peterbilt 359
Powered by a Big Cam Cummins with a 13-speed, Smith says he built the truck himself "with a lot of patience and money."
August 2, 2022
Pride & Polish
Overdrive's virtual Pride & Polish competition now open
The Pride & Polish virtual truck beauty show gives contestants a chance to show off their rigs and be chosen by their peers as the best of the best. Submissions are being accepted through Sept. 5.
August 1, 2022
Custom Rigs
Michael A. Manuel's show-worthy fleet of Petes
Michael A. Manuel Trucking's approach to recruiting is dead simple but potent: Offer up show-ready Peterbilt gliders, access to a bustling flatbed market, and let the drivers put those trucks to work the way that's intended.
July 29, 2022
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Eugene Adams' 1988 Kenworth T800
Adams has spent the last 34 years hauling 50-ton loads of asphalt and gravel down Michigan backroads. The rig is powered by a 425-hp Cat with a 13-speed and a Hendrickson spring suspension.
July 29, 2022
Custom Rigs
'Poor Money': The 2023 Kenworth W900L of owner-operator Steve Huff
The truck features a number of custom touches -- visor, window chops, custom headache rack -- and its moniker serves to remind Huff of his upbringing, his long path to where he is today. Huff is leased to Oklahoma-based Miller Truck Lines.
July 28, 2022
Reader Rigs
Jae and Brandi Elsbree's pair of 2021 Kenworth W900s
Now hauling for Hermann Bros. out of Port Angeles, the couple usually gets dispatched together in their 2021 Kenworth W900s. The trucks are powered by 600-hp (Jae) and 565-hp (Brandi) Cummins X15s, both with 18-speeds.
July 26, 2022
Reader Rigs
Kenny Lovett's 1990 Freightliner cabover
"What you see is what it's been since 1997," Lovett says. Powered by a Cummins N14 mechanical and a 13-speed, the piece of trucking history was previously kept up by Fredericktown, Ohio-based Russell Stauffer.
July 22, 2022
Custom Rigs
'Change order,' the 2000 Kenworth W900L daycab project rig of White Pine Paving
Bryant A. Mann's decade-long piece-by-piece project to finally finish this spectacular former coal hauler out of Maryland features expert custom-fab work put in, as well as detailed airbrushed designs along the hood and behind the cab.
July 21, 2022
Custom Rigs
Stunning rigs triumph in 32 show truck categories at Walcott
From cabovers and rat rods to bobtails and combos, winners were named in 32 different categories at the 43rd Walcott Truckers Jamboree last weekend, where more than 45,000 people showed up to take in the sights.
July 20, 2022
Reader Rigs
Mark Andersen's 1998 Peterbilt 379
It features a Cat 3406E with an 18-speed. He pulls a lowboy and step-deck in the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
July 19, 2022
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Pride & Polish
Overdrive's 2022 Pride & Polish competition
The Pride & Polish virtual truck beauty show gives contestants a chance to show off their rigs and be chosen by their peers as the best of the best. Submissions are being accepted through Sept. 5. Enter your rig for 2022 show-season bragging rights.
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