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Business

2nd annual Take Pride Truck Show, June 9-10, 2017

“Please let me gush for a minute to thank and give a shout out to all our friends who helped. We are so honored to have been asked to help plan and organize this event. I am always in awe of how generous this industry is.”

June 7, 2017

Custom Rigs

The ‘Service & Sacrifice’ 1988 Freightliner FLT86 veterans tribute cabover

Ed Harwell’s custom tribute to military veterans made its first truck-show appearance at the PKY championships at the Mid-America Trucking Show. This video, and plenty of photos, show the meticulous work put into the cabover’s restoration.

April 5, 2017

Business

Let the festivities begin!

Truckin’ to MATS: “It’s hard to believe we’re just a little over two weeks away from opening the show season. We are looking forward to MATS this year, and not just because all the big displays will be back.” …

March 3, 2017

Business

Red Eye Radio at MATS to feature Lee Greenwood, Tony Justice and more

Westwood One’s Red Eye Radio network is planning for a red, white and blue celebration of the Stars & Stripes this year at its Mid-America Trucking Show booth, featuring performances by Lee Greewood, Shane Owens, Tony Justice, Jayne Denham and more.

January 25, 2017

Custom Rigs

The day five famous 70s/80s rigs made history on 'Hollywood Hill'

A firsthand account of the event, bringing together restored trucks from movies “Duel,” “Convoy," and “Smokey & the Bandit” with “Movin’ On” and “B.J. & the Bear” TV rigs — among others at the Southern Classic Truck Show in 2016.

December 21, 2016

Custom Rigs

Most dynamic interior award: Steve Hurley’s classic 1987 Peterbilt 359

Truck features unique license plate floorboards, old signs on sleeper walls

September 30, 2016

Overdrive Radio

Special Olympics convoy: Joplin shatters truck-number record, raises $100,000-plus

Convoy footage, participants’ choice Best of Show winners, 4 States’ annual Larry H. Martin award presentation to a driver who is trucking “to the core,” and more from this weekend’s Guilty by Association Truck Show in Joplin.

September 26, 2016

Business

Dallas, here we come

Wendy looks forward to the Great American Trucking Show this week: “To say we’re excited about the show this year is an understatement. It’s been a rough year …”

August 22, 2016

Business

Color and Chrome Show participants enjoy lucky No. 7

The Color and Chrome Fantasy Truck Show, held in Nebraska near the end of July each year, is “all about the working truck and the truck drivers,” says organizer Tinker Raasch.

August 17, 2016

Custom Rigs

Supporting the blue at Class 8 on the Lake with Scott Carlson

More than one common thread runs through trucking and law enforcement communities, says Scott Carlson: “It only takes a few people to make all of us look bad.” Carlson showed his rig recently in support of the blue.

August 5, 2016

Custom Rigs

Photos: Owner-operators out in force at Tenn. Pride & Polish

Four Best of Show winners from this event at Fitzgerald Glider Kits sales and service location will join those already qualified for the championships for the final stand in Dallas next month.

July 15, 2016

Channel 19

Expediters gathering for niche-specific annual event this coming week

Among the owner-operator niche trucking events out there, the Expedite Expo, first held in 2001, stands out for a variety of reasons, not least among them the close community of haulers that makes up the expediting niche.

July 8, 2016