Tag: Erick Engbarth

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Welcome to the ‘deckplate diner,’ can I take your order?

As the coronavirus continues to impact daily life, truck drivers note that truck stop food-service patterns have shifted most during their stops. More here.

October 22, 2020

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Where’s a trucker supposed to eat?

Owner-operator Erick Engbarth shares his experience of challenges the coronavirus is producing for trucking -- just where to eat, what to haul and much more.

March 20, 2020

Custom Rigs

Vid: N.C.-based Erick Engbarth’s 2009 KW — bonus ’53 Case tractor in the family a half-century

Independent Erick Engbarth showed his 2009 Kenworth W900 and 2015 Utility dry van alongside his son’s 1953 Case DC farm tractor, fully rehabilitated, at the recent Southern Classic show in N.C. Erick hauls motorcycles and other freigth coast to coast.

September 14, 2017

Custom Rigs

Scenes from Brad Wike’s Southern Classic Truck Show

Famous movie trucks, owner-operator rigs, small fleet flagships, restored gems and more: What it’s all about at Brad Wike’s Southern Classic Truck Show in Lincolnton, N.C.

September 11, 2017

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How to get — and keep — the contract

Success in hauling with your own authority often requires negotiating contracts directly with shippers and keeping those contracts when bigger competitors come prowling. The father-son operation of John and Erick (pictured) Engbarth learned this by experience. Erick makes regular hauls from North Carolina to California loaded with plastics and usually carrying motorcycles back. When Engbarth […]

October 29, 2011