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Custom Rigs
'Less is more' with James Churchill & Sons' custom 2023 Kenworth W9
Derek Bates operates the truck for Wisconsin-based James Churchill & Sons Trucking. He hauls chrome steel out to Arizona and California twice a month with the truck, which he's added a handful of custom mods to.
September 5, 2024
Pride & Polish
Pride & Polish: Cast your votes for your favorites
The voting period for Overdrive's Pride & Polish virtual truck show is now open. Readers can select their favorite truck in each of five categories -- Working Bobtail, Working Combo, Antique, Interior and Limited Mileage/Show -- to determine finalists.
September 5, 2024
Pride & Polish
Last call! Overdrive's 2024 Pride & Polish -- cast your votes in five categories
Get your votes in by Sept. 30 in Overdrive's 2024 Pride & Polish competition to help select the winning truck in five separate categories — Working Bobtail, Working Combo, Limited Mileage/Show, Antique and Interior. Cast your votes here.
September 4, 2024
Custom Rigs
Part-time owner-op's '97 Peterbilt 379 honors family legacy
Brendan Conlon isn't a full-time trucker, but growing up around the business left a life-long desire to stay close to it. Conlon and his grandfather, Larry Beier, built this '97 Pete together, which Conlon now drives part-time and shows to honor Beier.
August 29, 2024
Custom Rigs
Alabama-based grain hauler's Legendary 2025 Peterbilt 589
Featuring the Legendary trim package, small fleet owner Russell Cummings' 589 features a number of exclusive treatments only available on the special-edition units. See more of the No. 64 of 589 Legendary Package Peterbilt 589 in this video.
August 22, 2024
Custom Rigs
Record-setting 'last ride' for Waupun Truck-N-Show
The official registration number for the truck show was 526 trucks -- a record on its own. Dozens more trucks also showed up just to participate in the "last ride" parade through Waupun, Wisconsin, in the 35th and final edition of the show.
August 21, 2024
Custom Rigs
2023 Pete 389 dubbed 'Fowl Attitude' by 'Rowdy Rooster' Jarad Mullinix
The 389 is owned by Myles Parker's West Lawrence Logistics small fleet, and showed out at the Large Cars & Guitars truck show in May, where operator Mullinix walked through the mods he's helped direct.
August 15, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Final Waupun Truck-N-Show kicks off
The 35th Waupun Truck-N-Show is underway through Saturday night in Waupun, Wisconsin, with hundreds of trucks expected for the event.
August 9, 2024
Custom Rigs
Expertly airbrushed '01 Pete 379 rescued as reptilian masterpiece
What started with a simple hexagonal design on the truck, initially intended be more "old school" in custom approach, transformed into a fire-breathing work of art. See plenty views here of this dragon-themed '01 379, retired from the road since 2015.
August 8, 2024
Reader Rigs
Project '85 Freightliner FLD building one owner's dream
After working as a driver now for six years running, James Qualls hopes the FLD will help him achieve his dream of working as a fully-fledged one-man operation, with plans to put it to work pulling end dumps and flatbeds.
August 6, 2024
Custom Rigs
'Twister': Custom builder's Western-themed 1970 Pete 358 honors original owner
This classic Peterbilt was rebuilt with a Western theme to pay homage to its original owner, Kenny Reagan aka "Twister," who hauled cattle with it for many years out West.
August 1, 2024
Custom Rigs
Alabama-based flatbedder keeps rolling in custom 389
Owner-operator B.J. Scott hauls lumber and steel for Alabama-based Dixie Transport in the 2013 Pete. He bought it from the company four years ago, repowered it, and added plenty custom touches to fit his personal style.
July 25, 2024
Custom Rigs
45th Truckers Jamboree at Iowa 80: Super Truck results, 53K attendees
The show featured numerous events, including live concerts, fireworks displays, an antique truck display, Iowa pork chop cookout and more -- in addition to the annual Super Truck Beauty Contest, the results of which can be seen here.
July 22, 2024
Custom Rigs
Ben Cadle's personal 2024 Pete 389, custom-built with Semi Casual assist
Small fleet owner Cadle showed the sharp 389 hooked to a brand-new polished-out Dorsey flatbed that his parallel Trelco Trailers business, leasing and selling trailers, took to the Large Cars and Guitars truck show in Kodak, Tennessee, in May.
July 18, 2024
Pride & Polish
Last chance to enter! Enter Overdrive's annual Pride & Polish
The entry period for the annual competition is open through this Sunday, August 18. The five categories for the contest are: Working Bobtail, Working Combo, Limited Mileage/Show, Antique and Interior.
July 15, 2024
Custom Rigs
'His last ride': Illinois-based owner's '79 Freightliner COE goes to work after resto
Don Emmons started his trucking career in 1979 in a Freightliner cabover and had been looking for one for a long time. He found this one and bought it last fall, and fixed it up to put it to work as part of his Emmons and Sons LLC business.
July 11, 2024
Life
ATHS names new president, executive director
David Schnautz, VP of Texas-based Clark Freight Lines, will serve as president of the American Truck Historical Society for two years. Also: Driver named Highway Angel for helping at scene of end-over-end crash.
July 4, 2024
Custom Rigs
MATS 'Build-Off' winner: Immaculate '24 Peterbilt 389 built with old-school style
A detailed look at the custom build from the team at Davis Brothers Designs team that MATS judges deemed the best of the three competing in the Big Rig Build-Off back in March.
July 4, 2024
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OTR to CDL school owner: A.J. Frankie and the 'School Daze' '92 T600
Frankie has been driving trucks for 40 years, but after long complaints about the quality of truck driver he was seeing on the roads, his wife told him he ought earn his right to complain. He opened a Driving Academy franchise and runs the 1992 Kenworth featured here to school almost daily.
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