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Equipment

10 rigs of Halloween: Seasonal, eerie and just plain scary

As part of Overdrive’s 13 Days of Halloween — a slideshow featuring 10 trucks of Halloween.

October 19, 2012

Custom Rigs

October’s featured show truck: ’94 379

That’s what Ronnie King’s wife had to say about this Ripe & Ready, this 1994 Peterbilt 379 – pictured with model Shelby – after he laid on the bright yellow paint.

October 17, 2012

Custom Rigs

Pride & Polish National Champions: Working Combo

John O’Keefe’s 2007 Peterbilt draws upon both his wilder younger days and his more settled years spent driving.

October 15, 2012

Channel 19

Ripe & Ready: Correction and update

Ronnie King sold his 1994 Peterbilt 379 between the time we last spoke with him and our current, October 2012 issue, which features the truck in the Custom Rigs opening spread.

October 9, 2012

Custom Rigs

Sweet restoration: 1973 KW K100

Bill Bradford spent three years restoring the KW and a 1977 Great Dane reefer to top condition — catch a photo gallery with pictures front to back here.

October 8, 2012

Channel 19

Pride & Polish: Business class?

Expediting owner-operators Linda and Bob Caffee, after participating in the GATS Pride & Polish in 2012, offered up an idea for a new class focused on biz performance and professionalism.

October 1, 2012

Channel 19

PHOTOS: Nice day for a truck show

Bill Bradford’s immaculately restored 1973 Kenworth K100 and 1977 Great Dane reefer — and more scenes from the Cookeville, TN, truck show of ATHS’ Music City Chapter.

September 29, 2012

Voices

‘A good step backward’

Readers react largely positively to Overdrive’s return to the photographic practice of pairing beautiful women with beautiful trucks.

September 28, 2012

Overdrive Extra

This space for rent

Vehicle personalization is human nature, but why in the world people feel compelled to tell the entire world their preference in eyewear and portable beverage refrigeration systems…

September 22, 2012

Custom Rigs

Yamko’s No. 136

Yamko’s two-man approach to putting together uniquely combinations of new and old garners more attention each year.

September 21, 2012

Overdrive Extra

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September 21, 2012

Custom Rigs

Todd Roccapriore’s Widow Maker

A new association can join the ranks of other widow makers, albeit for another reason: It’s a custom rig with killer looks.

September 7, 2012