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PHOTOS: OMG so much chrome!

En route to Miami, George and Wendy stop off for a preview of the 75 Chrome Shop, the location of the first Pride & Polish event of the season in a week or two.

April 12, 2015

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Start the Pride & Polish season with six seconds of stars

Any of you show truck aficionados who’ll be in central Florida April 24-26 can get a good fix at the 75 Chrome shop show. It’s the first Overdrive’s Pride & Polish event of 2015, taking place that weekend at the shop on I-75, just northwest of Orlando (map). Can’t make that? Check the locations and dates […]

April 10, 2015

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Rush, Mobil Delvac saluting truckers at this weekend’s NASCAR race

Rush Truck Centers and ExxonMobil will be saluting truckers leading up to this weekend’s race at the Texas Motor Speedway. Tony Stewart’s No. 14 Chevrolet SS will feature a special truck-focused paint scheme. And his hauler is featured in two separate recognition videos.

April 7, 2015

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Obscene Gesture cabover rescued from junkyard

Among the many cabovers at the recent Mid-America Trucking Show, one of the best-looking was Jeff Shawhan’s 1990 Kenworth K100E, which he calls Obscene Gesture.

April 7, 2015

Jeff Shawhan still uses his Kenworth K100E on his Ohio farm.

Truckers, start your engines: The Meritor ChampTruck World Series is bringing truck racing back to the U.S.

The new Meritor ChampTruck World Series, which will bring a true big-rig racing circuit back to the United States for the first time in nearly 30 years, will pit roughly a dozen trucks in 10 races nationwide this year.

April 6, 2015

Racers staged at the Le Mans Speedway in Le Mans, France, for one of the heats in the Truck Race Organization’s 2014 series finale. TRO, the European-based truck racing circuit, was the model for ChampTruck’s format.

Striped work horse: Arkansas owner-op’s 2006 Pete 379

When owner-operator Hughes Morin purchased his 2006 379 Peterbilt, the truck was solid red, so he created a silver and red striped paint scheme to make the truck his own.

April 3, 2015

ChampTruck racer brings European influence to American truck races

Joining the likes of diesel tech Mike Morgan, small fleet owner Allen Boles and the two Minimizer teams — who view the circuit through the lens of the American trucking industry — will be 22-year-old Krisztian Szabo, a Hungarian racer by trade.

March 31, 2015

Meritor announces premiere sponsorship of ChampTruck’s 2015 truck racing series

Global truck component manufacturer Meritor announced this week at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., that it will be the executive title sponsor of the Meritor ChampTruck World Series for the 2015 season.

March 28, 2015

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Custom rig runway: Photos of a few of the show trucks competing at Mid-America

One final gallery of the show trucks competing in the trade show’s truck beauty competition.

March 28, 2015

Photo gallery: Cabovers on display at Mid-America

Among the dozens of entries in the PKY Truck Beauty Championship this week, there’s no shortage of cabovers, representing brands including Peterbilt, Kenworth and Ford.

March 27, 2015

Photos: No. 54 ‘Team Tortured’ ChampTruck at MATS

At Minimizer’s booth at the Mid-America Trucking Show, this No. 54 “Team Tortured” truck will be piloted in the ChampTruck series by driver Brad Klemmenson of Blooming Prairie, Minn.

March 26, 2015

On display at the Minimizer company’s booth at the Mid-America Trucking Show is this Volvo ChampTruck, one of two the company has entered in the ChampTruck race series, getting under way next month.

Judgment Day: Sampling of custom trucks showing at MATS

A warm, sunny Wednesday made a nice setting for PKY Truck Beauty Championship contestants to apply lots of elbow grease to their tractors and trailers. Today it was time for contestants to relax as the judges dodged the rain to inspect dozens of entrants at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky. Here is a […]

March 26, 2015

For Tony LaFontaine, entering his 1993 Peterbilt 379 in the PKY contest is a novel “way to spend my spring break this year.” He farms and hauls agriculture products out of Decatur, Ind.

Gleaming show trucks ready for judging at MATS

Show truck owners were busy polishing away Wednesday as they prepared for judging in the PKY Truck Beauty championship at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky. Here are some of the contestants.

March 25, 2015

Back in black: ‘86 Pete 359 still hauling logs daily

Owner-operator Richard Shaw Jr. runs this 1986 Peterbilt 359 daily hauling logs, which the Woodville, Texas-based trucker says he’s done for 20 years.

March 24, 2015

Ol’ Red: Owner-op’s custom ’82 Freightliner cabover

Owner-operator Robert Carr says he loves this 1982 Freightliner COE “like my kids.” The truck is powered by a a 400-hp Cummins. Carr says the truck has been “totally redone” from its stock set-up.

March 20, 2015

‘Destination unknown’: New project 359, cancer cure effort from Eldon Jaeger & co.

Small fleet owner-operator Eldon Jaeger ramps up production on his Pete 359 build, which will be given away in a raffle to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

March 16, 2015

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RD’s heavy hauling Pete

Equipment hauler John Johnson drives this 2012 Peterbilt 389 for RD Reed Heavy Transport.

March 13, 2015

Crash that shut down I-95 charged to four-wheeler; more vids from Chris Fiffie

“Every once in a while they get it right in the end,” says a reader. Also: new Rolling CB Interviews from Chris Fiffie in our updated playlist.

March 12, 2015

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FMCSA's new National Consumer Complaint Database page has nine categories of complaints to file, including one for freight brokers.

FMCSA makes it easier to call out bad brokers with National Consumer Complaint Database update

FMCSA gives its National Consumer Complaint Database whistleblower portal an "overdue tech upgrade" it's calling "a win" for truck drivers and carriers as it gets easier to report bad brokers.

Oberman Logistics owner Wes Oberman's personal truck is this Kenworth T680 -- purchased to replace a lower-fuel-mileage 2020 389 that powered his maiden voyage in trucking as an owner-operator. He's getting 10 mpg now, and providing a reliable home for leased owners has the fleet up to 11 trucks as of August.

Skin in the leased owner's game: Oberman Logistics' simple, transparent plan for expansion

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Sleeper berth: Will truckers be able to split as they see fit?

It's taken less than a decade for small fleet owner Derrick Wolfe to grow his New York-based food grade tanker-haul business from one truck to 21 company drivers, seven owner-operators and 10 non-driving employees.

Derrick Wolfe has built a 'sweet' business in New York's Finger Lakes region

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