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Custom Rigs

Owner-op Rod Miller brings new aero Pete 386 to custom truck circuit

Video of Chance 2 Transport owner Rod Miller’s new highly customized Peterbilt 386 glider. Miller’s one of few operators to bring a tricked out aero Pete to the truck beauty show circuit.

July 7, 2016

Business

Peterbilt vocational Model 520 expands refuse lineup

The truck features a dual-seated/dual-drive configuration that allows customers to operate the vehicle from both sides of the cab, including dual controls for the parking brakes, HVAC system and stereo.

May 27, 2016

Pride & Polish

Photo gallery: 75 Chrome Pride & Polish competitors, full list of winners from year’s first show

The first Overdrive’s Pride & Polish show truck contest wrapped up Sunday in Wildwood, Fla., at the 75 Chrome Shop, where dozens of competitors showed to participate in the annual April-held event. Here’s a gallery of competitors and the full list of winners.

April 26, 2016

Pride & Polish

75 Chrome Shop Pride & Polish sends six more rigs to 2016 championship

Four custom show trucks won Best of Show honors at the annual 75 Chrome Shop Pride & Polish show held in Wildwood, Fla., this weekend, sending all four to compete in the 2016 Pride & Polish National Championship.

April 24, 2016

Overdrive Extra

Rearview: Peterbilt ads through the years

From the long needle-nose models of the ’60s to the cabovers of the ’70s and ’80s, the 20-year reign of the iconic Model 379 and today’s modern aerodynamic tractor stylings, Peterbilt tractors have graced the back cover of Overdrive for nearly 40 years. Here’s a look at some of the truck maker’s Overdrive ads through the decades.

April 6, 2016

Overdrive Radio

One independent’s comeback from the brink: A run with Ted Bowers

A rare opportunity to make part of a run with Kingston, Tenn.-based Ted Bowers, owner of the small trucking company that bears his name, yields a story of adversity overcome that holds lessons in the importance of close freight, accounting, driver and other partnerships.

March 15, 2016

Channel 19

New Peterbilt dealer open in Lincoln, Neb.

New Peterbilt of Lincoln dealer location expands parking, service and sales area at I-80 exit 405 in Nebraska — now part of the Midwest Peterbilt Group, which will be familiar to regular readers for a variety of reasons …

March 5, 2016

Business

First Peterbilt featuring MX-11 engine rolls off line

The Model 567 SFFA/Paccar MX-11 combination, destined for Knife River’s Northwest mixer operations, was driven off the Texas facility’s line by reps of the Bismarck, N.D.-based company.

January 27, 2016

Custom Rigs

‘After Midnight’ custom Pete 389 glider comes by way of power pair of truck builders

Fitzgerald Glider Kits brought the ideas and the plan, and Rabbit River Transport’s Eric Hassevoort brought the truck, the will to show it and years of experience to the custom build of “After Midnight,” a 2015 Peterbilt 389 working show truck.

January 21, 2016

Business

Peterbilt’s Denton, Texas plant celebrates 35 years

Peterbilt’s plant in Denton, Texas is celebrating 35 years.

December 23, 2015

Business

New apparel added to Peterbilt online merchandise store

Peterbilt has added more than 50 new items to the 2016 Peterbilt gift and merchandise collection at the company’s online gift shop.

December 10, 2015

Business

Peterbilt’s 58-inch sleeper available in 579, 567 models

Peterbilt’s 58-inch sleeper is now in production for the company’s Model 579 and vocational Model 567 in low- and mid-roof configurations.

December 3, 2015