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Pride & Polish
Exercise your right to vote in Overdrive's 2023 Pride & Polish
Voting for the virtual truck show competition is now open. Cast your vote for your favorite truck in each of six categories: Antique, Interior, Limited Mileage/Builders, Working Bobtail, and two Working Combo classes, split by year model.
September 15, 2023
As Pride & Polish entry period continues, a look back at 2022's finalists
Truck owners and drivers interested in showing off their hard work in the form of their truck can enter Overdrive's Pride & Polish competition through Labor Day, Sept. 4.
August 9, 2023
Show your work this season -- enter Overdrive's Pride & Polish competition today
Overdrive's decades-running Pride & Polish truck show competition returns for 2023 in a virtual format once again. Entries are being accepted through Sept. 4 in five categories: Working Bobtail and Combo, Antique, Interior, and Limited Mileage/Show.
August 1, 2023
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: Heavy-oversize hauler's 1987 Pete 359 wins big with iconic style
"Pay enough attention to anything and keep it up -- it'll last you." Easton, Minn.-based owner-operator Horace Goldman's 1987 Peterbilt 359 stands as a testament to the maxim, with its classic original dash and Goldman's personal touch all around.
January 5, 2023
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: 'Joke's on You' 389 no stranger to the spotlight
Hallahan Transport's 2022 Pete followed up its Limited Mileage championship in 2021 with a Working Combo win in the 2022 Pride & Polish competition to close out a stellar year on the truck show circuit for the rig.
December 29, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: Concert-hauling 2011 Pete 389 glider channels old-school look
The truck, which after 500,000 miles was intended to be driven occasionally by Shomotion owner Michael Scherkenbach, was instead given to a retiring owner-operator to keep him on tour with the fleet part-time. He didn't bat an eye at the coffin sleeper.
December 22, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom Champs: Rare White Freightliner Powerliner cabover still a part-time worker
The 1975-model COE was the first truck owned by G.L. Wasko when he started his business 45 years ago. He was the second owner of the rig then, and after some searching, the family also became the fifth owners of it in 2006.
December 8, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: A run in the 'Bandit' '21 W900L
It’s not just the classic black-and-gold throwback paint scheme from Smokey & the Bandit that's behind the name of this owner's rig. The Pride & Polish-winning W900L is now rolling memorial to John McCormick's "Bandit" Yorkie's memory.
December 2, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: 'Eighth house truck' for Rick and Terry Henderson
Winners in the Pride & Polish interior category, Bennett-leased owner-operators Rick and Terry Henderson of Ohio, feature a tastefully decorated interior, dazzling lighting and distinctive striping on their 2022 Peterbilt 389.
November 23, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: Classic Mack B61 helping revive longtime trucker ministry
Marvin Graves has been involved in the trucking industry in one way or another for most of the last 60 years. He started out as a company driver, then became an owner-operator before he started a truck stop ministry in the 1980s.
November 17, 2022
Pride & Polish
2022 Pride & Polish champs: The seven standout rigs
Following a submission period, Overdrive readers voted on their favorite trucks in each of seven categories to determine the winners in the 2022 Pride & Polish virtual competition.
October 28, 2022
Pride & Polish
The best in custom rigs: Pride & Polish finale today
Three trucks are finalists in each of seven categories -- Working Bobtail, 2014 & Older; Working Bobtail, 2015 & Newer; Working Combo, 2011 & Older; Working Combo, 2012 & Newer; Antique; Interior; and Limited Mileage. Winners will be announced Oct. 28.
October 10, 2022
Pride & Polish
Cast your vote for the best in custom rigs: Overdrive's Pride & Polish
Dozens of owners submitted photos that make up 77 entries in one or more of seven categories: two each in Working Bobtail and Working Combo; Antique; Interior; and Limited Mileage/Builders. Cast your vote in each category for your favorites now.
September 13, 2022
Pride & Polish
Voting period opens for virtual Pride & Polish truck show competition
Pride & Polish voting: Vote now to determine the finalists in each of seven categories -- Working Bobtail, 2014 & Older; Working Bobtail, 2015 & Newer; Working Combo, 2011 & Older; Working Combo, 2012 & Newer; Antique; Interior; and Limited Mileage.
September 13, 2022
Pride & Polish
Overdrive's 2022 Pride & Polish competition
Just a few days left to enter the Pride & Polish virtual truck show, a chance for competitors to show off their rigs and be chosen by peers as the best of the best. Submissions accepted through Sept. 5. Enter your rig for 2022 show-season bragging rights.
July 19, 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
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: Chris Kulow's 2007 Peterbilt 379
Chris Kulow's 379, which sports a 144-inch ARI sleeper, won first place in the Working Bobtail, 2008 & Older class in the 2021 Overdrive's Pride & Polish. He uses the truck to haul machinery and oversized step-deck freight.
September 20, 2021
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: Mark Havens' 2019 Peterbilt 389
Pride & Polish Working Bobtail category winner Mark Havens considers his 389 Pete a gift from above. It's certainly one that draws crowds wherever it goes, hauling mostly gasoline and ethanol.
September 9, 2021
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