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Clean Lucille: Owner-op’s freshly polished Peterbilt
Owner-operator Coby Heard uploaded this picture of his blue Peterbilt, which he calls Lucille, to Overdrive’s Reader Rig gallery earlier this week.
May 8, 2015
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‘Her and the memories’: Owner-op’s 1981 Kenworth W900
“The truck is gone,” owner-operator Jerry Martin says of his first KW. “But I still go the best part of it — her (his wife) and the memories!”
April 29, 2015
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Owner-operator’s in-house built ’72 Pete
Owner-operator Chris Jonsen says he built up this 1972 Peterbilt in his personal shop. The frame-stretched rig is powered by a 540-hp Big Cam Cummins.
April 10, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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‘Just plain nice’: Propane hauler’s Coronado
Truck operator Brad Kuhn drives this 2014 Freightliner Coronado for MS & Sons out of Iowa. Kuhn lives in Yarnell, Ariz., and hauls propane in the Southwest.
March 6, 2015
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Car hauler’s ‘load of snowbirds’
Car hauler Jim Shaw runs this ‘01 Pete 379 with the Cottrell C-12 trailer for his namesake Shaw Auto Carriers, a two-truck operation.
February 27, 2015
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‘Chrome all over’: Flatbedder’s ’07 Classic
Phoenix-based Jim Zermeno’s 2007 Freightliner Classic is a jack of all heavy-haul trades. Zermeno hauls construction materials like copper, steel beams and pipes, as well as oil field equipment, axles, scissor lifts, oversized loads and more. “We have put chrome all over it,” he says, “in and out. Also, some wood cabinets.” He runs the […]
February 20, 2015
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Pot of gold: Tanker-hauling Freightliner
“I had just put the decals on it, and I pulled it out of the garage and the rainbow appeared,” says owner-operator Ron Stroke. “So I took a picture of it — I thought it was pretty neat.”
February 17, 2015
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Pete for All Season’s: Bulk carrier’s working show rig
All Season’s Trucking out of Dubuque, Iowa, uses this ‘09 Peterbilt 388 to haul road salt, fertilizer, rock, sand and grain.
February 13, 2015
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Two KWs play role of LTL workhorses
Jim Schwehr runs his two new 2015 Kenworth T680 mostly stock, but he did have the graphics added. The Hamilton, Montana, resident pulls dry vans LTL freight, he says.
February 6, 2015
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Something out of nothing: Owner-op’s 2000 Peterbilt 379
Dayton, Tenn., resident Calvin Nichols Jr. has put more than 2 million miles on this 2000 Peterbilt 379. Nichols’ dedication and hard work have kept the one-truck business alive through the tough economy, says his girlfriend Marcy Greer.
January 30, 2015
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KW of all trades
This 2010 Kenworth W900 works by day hauling items like lumber, steel, machinery and even the occasional monster truck. It also, however, has moonlighted hauling airliner fuselage for the TV show “Grim” and “has been spotted in several parades across Oergeon in support of our great nation and the troops,” says Josh Nye.
January 23, 2015
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Homemade heavy hauler: ’96 Peterbilt 377 gets the job done
Corsicana, Texas, resident Randy Harris re-built this 1996 Peterbilt 377 a few years ago into a heavy hauler. He added special inserts, a new steer axle, a new transmission, a fourth axle, a double-locking fifth wheel and a nine-ton winch.
January 16, 2015
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Chromed up steel hauling Peterbilt 389 glider
Steel hauler Jeremy Anderson owns and runs this 2013 Peterbilt 389 glider, to which he’s added a host of custom features.
January 9, 2015
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Family Affair: Detroit-powered 1990 cabover Freightliner
Nick Zwald of Tillamook, Ore., owns and drives this 1990 Freightliner Condor for Zwald Transport, operating under his father’s authority.
January 2, 2015
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