Rawlins, Wyoming-based small fleet proprietor Kenny Ziglar II owns and operates what has been one of the most distinguished custom rigs in the U.S. over the last year.
Ziglar’s 2007 Peterbilt 379, nicknamed “Scrapin’ By,” took home the hardware from some of the most prestigious truck shows in the country in 2025, all while continuing to run as part of his four-truck Ziglar Transport business pulling tankers:
- Overall Best of Show at the Shell Rotella SuperRigs working truck show last May
- Later in the year, Ziglar earned the Working Bobtail National Champion nod at the Stars, Stripes and White Lines Truck Show
- Coincidentally, both events took place at EchoPark Speedway in Hampton, Georgia.
Ziglar is shown here with his rig after the big win at SuperRigs.Shell Rotella
“We’re honored to have done how we did,” Ziglar said of his big 2025 on the truck show circuit. He didn't expect all the accolades going in, yet "it seems like everywhere it went, it just was a crowd favorite.”
Outside truck shows, Ziglar’s truck and the rest of the fleet moves a little bit of everything that might go in a liquid-bulk tanker, he said, ”from motor oils up to various types of hazardous chemicals.”
Ziglar Transport's had its ups and downs over the last year and more. The company lost one of its primary customers, for instance, but has been able to quickly find another to fill that gap.
The fleet “had to shift some stuff around, but we were able to get by and make it work,” he said. Speaking in mid-January, Ziglar said the company’s “off to a pretty good start” in 2026, having picked up another new customer for the year.
“You gotta stay at it, man,” he said. “You can’t just sit there. I didn’t think I was guilty of it," but he hadn't been looking for much else before he lost the customer, comfortable. "Because I didn’t need it. Once we lost it, I’m like, ‘Oh, crap.’”
Overdrive first caught up with Ziglar before his rig became the talk of the show circuit. At Stars, Stripes and White Lines in 2024, Ziglar had already done a good deal of work it, which can be seen here.
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“The only thing we had done was pretty much painted the body of the truck,” he said last month. Paint work, along with the frame paint done since, was handled by Ziglar’s brother-in-law, Patrick Kiser with Kiser Customs in Virginia.
He ran it that way up through February 2025, then started an interior redo, “and then I went from the interior shop straight to the fab shop” -- Justin Kendrick’s Mobill’s Truck Repair in Lufkin, Texas. “That’s where we tore it back down; we stretched it; we done all the rest of the customization,” Ziglar added.
Patrick Kiser drove down from Virginia to Texas and stayed with Kendrick for three weeks helping complete the build. “We lived in our RV behind Justin’s house for a total of eight weeks while we were doing this,” Ziglar said.
Nearly every piece of the truck “was hand-built” by Kendrick, he said, but for “the shock box cover on the rear,” Ziglar said, bought at a chrome shop. “Everything else is all hand-built. It was a lot of welding, grinding, more grinding, sanding. Everything was formed, all hand pulled. Nothing cut on the CNC; it was all the old-fashioned way.”
Derryl Beger with Manitoba-based Beger Industries custom-made the grille, updated from the first time “Scrapin’ By” graced the pages of Overdrive. The new grille features the rig’s name in the bottom corner on the driver’s side.
Nu-Gen Services in Louisiana fashioned the bumper for Ziglar. “I told him what I wanted, and he made it,” he said.
As can be seen here, the back side of the bumper has a custom light panel that holds eight watermelon lights.
At the rear, Ziglar swapped in an aluminum fifth wheel, and the plate under the fifth wheel is the same design as the grille. That plate is also the only part on the truck Kendrick used a laser to cut because it had to be so precise.
From the grille to the back of the truck, inside and out, "Scrapin' By" features something of a diamond theme. “We’re trying to keep that theme going,” Ziglar said. He added that he plans to incorporate more of the shape into the rig by the end of this year.
[Related: Kenny Ziglar's 'Scrapin' By' 2007 Peterbilt 379 wins top honors at SuperRigs]
The 379's got a tuned-up Cat under the hood that likewise got a refresh before the 2025 season. They painted the engine in the frame, with a lot of work to cover everything to prevent overspray. The Cat also got all new stainless lines from Kelly’s Truck Parts in Nacogdoches, Texas.
He tried to use a Dynaflex intake pipe kit, but it wouldn’t fit his truck because his engine is set back instead of set forward. He worked with B&H Tubes in Pennsylvania to build the polished stainless intake pipes.
Inside, the interior's a combination of EZ Pete and Florida’s Finest Custom parts, custom stereo put in by Bryant Radio in Virginia.
The diamond theme Ziglar mentioned above is apparent in the interior with the pattern in the headliner and seats.
Ziglar also pulled out all the factory lights from the interior and made modifications to install watermelons throughout, “so we’re able to keep watermelons flowing through the whole truck,” he said. “Every interior light is watermelon. All the outside lights except the penny lights are watermelon. Underglow lights, same thing, all watermelon.”
He worked with Lightning Jack Customs for floor mats, step pads and more.
He'll show the truck this year, he said, yet he's turning much of his attention back toward the business.
“We’re not gonna show it as heavy as we did last year,” he said. “It was too much working and trying to show in between. It was really hard."
In total, Ziglar hit 14 in-person truck shows in 2025.
Working in between all of those shows while also trying to keep the truck clean “was a job in itself,” he added. “It was a lot of fun, we met a lot of good people. I’m glad we did it, but this year, we’re gonna try to take it easy a little bit.”
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