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Business

21,000 Peterbilt, Kenworth trucks recalled due to potential door latch, seat belt defects

Paccar, parent company of Peterbilt and Kenworth, has issued two recalls for more than 21,000 Kenworth and Peterbilt model trucks for potential defects related to the door latch assembly on some trucks and the seat belt assembly on others.

February 10, 2014

Custom Rigs

C.O. Bruce Trucking — classic trucks through the decades

Photos and more from longtime owner-operator C.O. Bruce’s and his 1960s visit to Overdrive offices in Los Angeles.

January 30, 2014

Business

Kenworth, Peterbilt models at World of Concrete

Peterbilt will show its new all-purpose vocational Model 567, Kenworth its T880 with mixer body (recently in full production), at the World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas January 21-24.

January 16, 2014

Custom Rigs

Check out this workhorse: Don Cooper’s 379

A neat internal-breather treatment on the Cooper Farms 1998 Peterbilt 379 — photos and more of the McAlpin, Fla.-based rig of owner-operator Don Cooper.

January 16, 2014

Custom Rigs

Rotella SuperRigs calendar: A truck beauty every month

The new 2014 Shell Rotella SuperRigs calendar showcases 12 of the nation’s best-looking heavy-duty trucks.

December 4, 2013

Custom Rigs

Roundup: River States in Wis. hosting show, hanging a fuel-mileage shingle, new vid series…

Overdrive’s Pride & Polish heads to Wisconsin in 2014, with River States Customz in La Crosse hosting.

November 7, 2013

Custom Rigs

Piss’d Off Pete grabs 12 minutes of celebrity and roars on

Since starring in Overdrive’s most popular video, Piss’d Off Pete, a converted Peterbilt 351, has been featured on Jay Leno’s Garage website and video series.

November 5, 2013

Custom Rigs

Mooooo! Pride & Polish winner a dairy delight

Jerry Mies’ Pete won Best of Show Working Combo in Overdrive’s Pride & Polish at GATS.

August 29, 2013

Custom Rigs

Mystery Machine: The Peterbilt ‘369’ of Ronald Millsaps

Millsaps’ 2002 Peterbilt 379’s hood and other elements of the front end have been modified to more closely resemble those on a class 1980s Peterbilt 359.

July 9, 2013

Custom Rigs

Look into one wicked custom-detailed Caterpillar engine

Brian Davis’ “Blowing money” Caterpillar engine detail is shown here in video shot at the Fitzgerald Truck Show and Overdrive’s Pride & Polish event in Crossville, Tenn., June 2013.

July 4, 2013

Overdrive Extra

Trucking with environmentalists

What the President’s new Climate Action Plan has to say about heavy-duty trucks yields odd alignment of environmental / trucking perspective in discussion.

June 28, 2013

Equipment

Getting 140,000 pounds up a mountain on natural gas: Done and done

Equipment Editor Jack Roberts took a natural gas powered Pete for an a-typical test drive in Vancouver, where the truck was responsible for lugging 140,000-pound flatbed doubles – a “bi-train,” as the Canadians call it – into the Cascade Mountains.

June 28, 2013