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Big Rig Videos, one year in — and Guilty by Association highlight reel

Big Rig Videos’ Chris Fiffie’s highlight vid from the Guilty by Association Truck Show — and a message from behind the viewfinder from Fiffie himself on BRV’s first anniversary.

October 1, 2014

Chris Fiffie at MATS02

Chrome overload at Guilty by Association

“The Precious” is in the competition: “I’m OK with the disparaging comments — the meanest ones usually come from people who don’t have a truck at all, so there’s that. I do know this, we’ve got family in Joplin now, and that’s the biggest win of all.”

September 26, 2014

The Precious: Number 173 edit (800x340)

Bryan Martin previews Guilty by Association Truck Show

The Guilty by Association Truck Show in Joplin, Mo., gets under way this Friday, Sept. 26. Owner-operator George Parker and Overdrive contributing writer Wendy Parker shot this brief preview video with 4 States’ Bryan Martin.

September 24, 2014

Guilty by Association

Out from behind the camera: Big Rig Videos’ Chris Fiffie

Florida-based videographer and former truck driver Chris Fiffie has been turning heads over the past year with his vid series of Rolling CB Interviews with owner-operators.

September 24, 2014

Fiffie, picture above by Cheri Kimball at the Mid-America Trucking Show, has found a home covering the trucking world, he says. He got his start in video production with an early interest in cameras that ultimately led to a small business producing television commercials and variety of other work. Before that, though, he needed seed money to invest in the necessary equipment, well before digital video made that at least somewhat less cumbersome of a prospect. “I looked for a job,” he says, and “worked for my father as a mechanic” in his auto-repair shop in South Florida. Cue then a story in the local newspaper comparing various income numbers for particular professions, in which truck drivers and machine operators ranked quite high. “My next-door neighbor was a truck driver,” Fiffie adds. “I went for a ride with him once and then got my Class A, taking the money I made and buying video equipment with it.” Over four or five years, he’d built his arsenal “and was able to transition to a business doing video production.” Along the way, though, he never lost the interest in trucks and trucking. In 2006 he moved from South Florida to the West Coast of Florida to a small town with no video services. But “I wanted to explore,” he says. “I thought I’d take a driving job,” his first operating a Peterbilt, a 2006 triaxle 379 with 500 horses. “I really got hooked.” His video business hit hard locally by the economic crash a few years later, a friend mentioned the Chrome Shop Mafia was looking for “someone to come up to the Mid-America Trucking Show in 2012” to film the show for a DVD. That’s where the 4 State Trucks DVD series got its start, and with all the extra footage, Fiffie took to Youtube and Facebook, further developing ideas like the Rolling CB Interviews series.

Anthony Fischkelta’s 2014 custom KW, done for now

Done and done — for now. Fischkelta’s put his custom 2014 KW to work hauling reefer freight between New Jersey and Boston. Photos of the 331-inch wheelbase beauty here. More work on the interior to come…

April 24, 2014

Anthony Fischkelta 2014 W900

A miracle in Joplin

Debbie Zehrer tells the exceptional story of her encounter with young truck illustrator Chase Harnage at the 2012 Guilty by Association Truck Show at 4 State Trucks in Joplin, Mo.

October 19, 2012

John and Chase Harnage with 4 State Trucks’ Bryan Martin

Colin Stuart’s ‘Working Class,’ shown in Knoxville this weekend

Just as I was wrapping up my time at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show this past Saturday, April 14, what would pull into the lot at Knoxville, Tenn.’s Chilhowee Park on East Magnolia but this stupendous custom 1984 Peterbilt 359, the usually heavy-hauling (he had on a load of pallets Saturday) Working Class of Harvard, […]

April 16, 2012

Convoys raise funds for Special Olympics

World’s Largest Truck Convoys for Special Olympics rolled last weekend in several locations.

October 6, 2011

World's Largest Truck Convoy for Special Olympics rolls near Joplin, Mo. (Photo Bruce W. Smith)

Final Showdown

Four kings of chrome crowned at culmination of inaugural Pride & Polish National Championship Series.

October 1, 2011

Working Bobtail — GATS This 2003 Peterbilt 379, shown by Bruce Smith, won Best of Show, Working Bobtail, at the Great American Trucking Show Pride & Polish. Smith says the truck’s paint scheme emulates that of a King Ranch Ford F-150.

4 State’s Bryan Martin on Joplin rebuilding efforts in All Drivers Together conference call

In a conference call last week put together by the All Drivers Together group, a collaboration of owner-operators and drivers opening up a free conference line to drivers and others in the trucking industry around the nation to network and share information toward industry betterment, 4 State Trucks’ Bryan Martin noted the shift in efforts […]

June 15, 2011

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Chrome Shop Mafia tricks out new Freightliner models

Freightliner’s new Cascadia and Coronado models have received custom makeovers at 4 State Trucks’ Chrome Shop Mafia in Joplin, Mo.

January 21, 2010

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