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Independent's stunning 'Little Blue' 1995 Freightliner FLD
Owner-operator Raiko Graveran has owned the truck for about 15 years, but really turned it into a working showpiece in 2020. The FLD debuted at its first truck show in the Spring of 2021. Here, run through the many upgrades he's made to the rig.
March 28, 2024
Top performers from MATS' 2024 PKY Truck Beauty Championship
Catch the full awards ceremony from the Mid-America Trucking Show, as well as the full list of winners and plenty views of standouts from the contest, spanning 39 categories.
March 27, 2024
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March 15, 2024
Custom Rigs
Big Rig Build-Off, category first places, People's Choice: Big winners at MATS
Davis Bros. Designs came out on top in the invite-only builders competition at the Mid-America Trucking Show with their impressive 2024 Peterbilt 389 build. Also: Catch the five Best of Show winners and more from the PKY Truck Beauty Championship.
March 23, 2024
Custom Rigs
Starting strong: Custom rigs kick off MATS 2024 in new location on-site
At the Mid-America Trucking Show, the working gems and show trucks served as the unofficial kick-off to the event, with dozens of rigs competing in the annual PKY Truck Championship, this year taking place out front, near the main entry gate.
March 21, 2024
Custom Rigs
'Plain Jane' 1995 Peterbilt 379 a company driver's dream ride
Driver James Frenya was at the 2023 Guilty By Association Truck Show last Fall, showing the 1995 Pete that he treats as his own.
March 14, 2024
Reader Rigs
Texas-based owner-op's 2007 Peterbilt 379, 'Maggie Mae'
After buying the rig used in 2018, owner Ernest Ludlow got his authority in 2020 and pulls a van OTR.
March 12, 2024
Overdrive Extra
KW 100 postscript: A truck show in New Zealand, 'Just a Phase' still a phase
Kenworth's 100th anniversary wrapped up in January, but highlights keep rolling in, from a spectacularly huge truck show in New Zealand that finally got off the ground in early February to another close look at an old favorite, still a phase.
March 8, 2024
Reader Rigs
One-truck owner-op's big-bunk 2005 W9
Owner-operator Tom Gay's KW sits on a 320-inch wheelbase and boasts a 132-inch ARI sleeper.
March 8, 2024
Custom Rigs
Flatbedder's '06 Pete a rolling tribute to POW/MIA veterans
CRST-leased owner-operator Fritz Littlefield has outfitted his rig to honor Prisoners of War and Missing in Action veterans. Customizations on the rig make the theme evident inside and out.
March 7, 2024
Reader Rigs
Seeing double: Fleet's near-identical pair of 389s
Each Legendary Red rig is equipped with a 605-hp Cummins X15 with a 13-speed Eaton.
March 5, 2024
Custom Rigs
Last of the 359s: '87 Pete a 'Classic 359'
The truck, while not part of the numbered "Classic 359" series, "still made the Classic cut" as an "extension truck," according to Gerald Mock, who helped rebuild this one.
February 29, 2024
Reader Rigs
Pristine vintage 1968 International a family heirloom
The truck's current owner, John Kavanaugh, rode with his father hauling livestock in the truck growing up.
February 27, 2024
Reader Rigs
Owner-op's grain-hauling 2013 Western Star
The rig is powered by a DD15 Detroit with a 13-speed.
February 23, 2024
Custom Rigs
Project 1988 Peterbilt 379 is Jarrett Landry's 'oversize dually'
The owner-builder's not a working owner-operator, but a proud truck owner nonetheless -- so much so that when Peterbilt got wind of this custom restoration, reps invited Landry to show in the 2023 Pride & Class event and parade.
February 22, 2024
Overdrive Radio
A living history with three custom Peterbilts - 359, 379, 389 - and their owners
For this Overdrive Radio edition, settle in for the run through 40 years of living history with three iconic Pete models, all also well-entrenched in the present through the work of these owners: Greg Crispell, Jarrett Landry, Troy Massey.
February 19, 2024
Reader Rigs
Operator's Cascadia daycab works around SoCal
Gregg Seltzer operates the truck for Blue Star Freight out of Chino, California.
February 16, 2024
Custom Rigs
'Mad Skills': A Peterbilt 379 that floats
Ohio-based Scott Carder built this tritoon boat from the ground up, with a Peterbilt 379 cab as the centerpiece. Everything else on the build is custom, Carder said.
February 15, 2024
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