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Close look at Wyoming-based owner-opâs working classic 1970 KW
Herman has spent the last decade and more re-conditioning and customizing a narrow-nose 1970 Kenworth W925. Video of this custom rig here on Overdrive.
September 8, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Martin Herman on the value of roadside inspections â and his Big Cam-powered 1970 KWâs transformation
Martin Herman, independent owner-operator and tank-doubles hauler, discusses upcoming Brake Safety Week inspection and his restored Kenworth needlenose W925.
August 21, 2020
Custom Rigs
Round-up: Brood of kittens hauled Hayward to San Diego, a 1940 COE project out west, and â more proof W9âs a work truck
A look at J.D. Howardâs restored 1995 W900L â a show-worthy unit we saw at MATS â doing what it does in the Great Lakes winter; imagine the surprise of the jobsite crew in San Diego when a 60-foot steel column start mewling at them; and: Howard Salmonâs 1940 Chevy COE find.
May 22, 2019
Custom Rigs
Portrait of two classics: â71 Autocar and its paint schemeâs inspiration, â74 Diamond Reo goes to the museum
Ohio-based heavy equipment operator James Green hunts down the inspiration for his late fatherâs 1971 Autocarâs paint scheme in a 1980 Overdrive issue, and donates his grandfatherâs 1974 Diamond Reo, his final truck, to the Iowa 80 trucking museum. Take a run through some of that history with Green here.
May 8, 2019
Custom Rigs
Halvor Linesâ 50th-anniversary 1974 Peterbilt 352, rescued and restored
The story behind the 1974 Peterbilt 352 of Halvor Lines of Superior, Wis., a special restoration project cabover that hauled for Halvor in its first decade, finished just in time for Christmas last year and the final month of Halvorâs 50th-anniversary year,
April 15, 2019
Custom Rigs
Iowa-based independentâs restoration of an e-log-exempt 2000 Pete 379
The FMCSAâs change to its guidance on the pre-2000 model year exemption to the ELD mandate â when the agency specified the engine year instead of the chassis year as the determining factor â sealed the deal for owner-operator Scott Hampton in his plans to do a $75K custom-restoration of his 2000 Peterbilt 379.
November 26, 2018
Custom Rigs
Owner-op Dustin Batesâ 34 years young hauler: The âJust Passing Thruâ 1984 Freightliner FLC120
The classic mid-â80s Freightliner conventional body style and striping immediately set it apart at GBATS right here. As Bates himself says, you donât see many of them around any more. Video, detail on the previously single-owner unit, well-preserved, here.
October 18, 2018
Channel 19
Resurrecting the Rubber Duck's classic 1970 Mack RS700
This video showcases small fleet owner Anthony Fox of Rome, Ga., proud owner and caretaker of a piece of history that is one of the original 1970 Macks/60s trailer from the classic âConvoyâ trucking film of the 1970s, released today 43 years ago.
November 16, 2017
Custom Rigs
Craig Krumptonâs retirement project 1971 Kenworth W900 and classic 1980s Double Eagle sleeper
Another beauty I came across at the Southern Classic Truck Show, owned by retired Craig Krumpton of West Columbia, S.C. Krumpton picked this 1971 Kenworth W900 in 2008. Its original owner-operator team hauled in it through the mid-1990s, and it still bears their original paint and features in large part.
September 21, 2017
Custom Rigs
Working-cabover work in progress: Owner-operator James Ryanâs 1989 Peterbilt 362
The Cummins Big Cam 4-powered 1989 Peterbilt 362 double-bunk cabover youâll see in this video has been in owner-operator James Ryanâs family for years before he convinced his father, Art Nelson, to sell him the unit. Today, he hauls containers from the Port of Savannah north to Charlotte with it.
September 19, 2017
Custom Rigs
Next-generation owner-operator Ethan Madden on the 1984 Peterbilt 359 custom rig heâs spent his teens on
Video: catch a variety of views on 17-year-old Ethan Maddenâs custom 1984 Peterbilt 359, a truck thatâs passed now through three generations of Texas Maddens to score a second in its Antique class at the GATS Pride & Polish a couple weeks back.
September 7, 2017
Custom Rigs
1977 KWâs first run in 29 years
Restoring a rig with some history â Bryan DeKock and the 1977 Kenworth W9 that inspired the mural on the old Monteagle Truck Stop, debuting this week at the ATHS national convention in Des Moines.
May 25, 2017
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