Tag: truck beauty competition

Custom Rigs

Retirement rewards: Tobby Donalson’s 1959 Peterbilt 351

Two years after saying goodbye to the highway, independent owner-operator Tobby Donalson finished a rig he waited nearly 30 years for the time to rebuild just right

June 29, 2016

Business

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

Channel 19

If you didn’t think there was a truck-show season…

Think again. With Pride & Polish action heating up June 26 in Wisconsin, here’s a heads-up on a couple regional events occurring over the next several weeks.

June 26, 2014

Custom Rigs

Pride & Polish winners in Crossville, Tenn.

Big winners from the latest installment in Overdrive’s truck-beauty National Championship series in Crossville, Tenn.

June 29, 2013

Custom Rigs

Owner-operator Dan Braun bags 1st place in K.C. truck show

Video, pictures and more about Braun’s plans to turn his trailer into a cancer survivors’ memorial, as well as detail on runners-up in the first Pride in Your Ride truck show at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention.

October 29, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Awesome bull hauler: An Iowa Pete truck show winner

Peterbilt of Council Bluffs, Iowa, hosted a truck beauty competition and show this past Saturday, May 5, that attracted more than 40 entrants. Pictured here (beauty shot below) is the “hot lime-green” 2000 Peterbilt 379 bull hauler that garnered the most votes from the judges (the entrants themselves) for Best in Show, along with staff […]

May 9, 2012

Channel 19

Memphis expo and Nashville show this weekend

Outreach, education in Memphis I had the good fortune of meeting Niki Brown and her husband, independent owner-operator Steve Nelson, this past weekend at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention (if you missed my reporting from the event, find two stories here and here) in Tunica, Miss., due south of their Memphis home base. They’re […]

October 19, 2011