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Pride & Polish: Cast your votes for your favorites
The voting period for Overdrive's Pride & Polish virtual truck show is now open. Readers can select their favorite truck in each of five categories -- Working Bobtail, Working Combo, Antique, Interior and Limited Mileage/Show -- to determine finalists.
September 5, 2024
Last chance to enter! Enter Overdrive's annual Pride & Polish
The entry period for the annual competition is open through this Sunday, August 18. The five categories for the contest are: Working Bobtail, Working Combo, Limited Mileage/Show, Antique and Interior.
July 15, 2024
From 'bare bones' to working showpiece: Cody Davis doubles up with 'Mojito' 2022 W900L
Davis' two category wins in Overdrive's 2023 Pride & Polish competition -- Working Combo, Interior -- add to big wins earlier in the year at SuperRigs for the custom livestock hauler, built from the ground up with partners.
December 21, 2023
Pride & Polish
Classic Pete 359 hauls in big Pride & Polish win after 4.1M miles of work
Ron Kelsey's 1981 "Sunrise Express" was crowned the Working Bobtail champ in the contest, following an Antique category win in 2021.
December 14, 2023
Pride & Polish
'Limited Mileage' king: The sharp 1985 KW K100, Eby hopper of Twin Pine Farm
The truck works, though its miles look more like those of a suburban commuter than an over-the-road trucker. Operator Matt Bankert's logged just 80,000 in nine years of farm work with the cabover, powered by a fully mechanical Caterpillar.
December 7, 2023
Pride & Polish
Hard-working 1984 Pete cabover returns to Pride & Polish glory
After winning in the Antique category in 2020, C.J. Donovan's 1984 Peterbilt 362 is now a two-time Pride & Polish champ with a win in the Working Combo, 2007 & Older category this year.
November 30, 2023
Pride & Polish
1966 Peterbilt 281 a piece of trucking history, and a Pride & Polish champ
Kevin Cimmiyotti's red and white rig took the Antique division of Overdrive's Pride & Polish competition. It brings with it storied parts of trucking's long forgotten past.
November 24, 2023
Pride & Polish
Undisputed: Introducing the 2023 Pride & Polish champs
After a month-long entry period and a two-week public voting period by Overdrive readers, these standout rigs in six categories have been crowned the 2023 Pride & Polish champions.
November 10, 2023
Pride & Polish
Overdrive's 2023 Pride & Polish finalists in full: The best of the best in custom rigs
After a month-long entry period and a two-week public voting period, three finalists were named in each of six categories in Overdrive's 2023 Pride & Polish competition. Winners in each category were unveiled November 10 here.
October 11, 2023
Pride & Polish
Exercise your right to vote in Overdrive's 2023 Pride & Polish
Voting for the virtual truck show competition is now open. Cast your vote for your favorite truck in each of six categories: Antique, Interior, Limited Mileage/Builders, Working Bobtail, and two Working Combo classes, split by year model.
September 15, 2023
Pride & Polish
As Pride & Polish entry period continues, a look back at 2022's finalists
Truck owners and drivers interested in showing off their hard work in the form of their truck can enter Overdrive's Pride & Polish competition through Labor Day, Sept. 4.
August 9, 2023
Pride & Polish
Show your work this season -- enter Overdrive's Pride & Polish competition today
Overdrive's decades-running Pride & Polish truck show competition returns for 2023 in a virtual format once again. Entries are being accepted through Sept. 4 in five categories: Working Bobtail and Combo, Antique, Interior, and Limited Mileage/Show.
August 1, 2023
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: Heavy-oversize hauler's 1987 Pete 359 wins big with iconic style
"Pay enough attention to anything and keep it up -- it'll last you." Easton, Minn.-based owner-operator Horace Goldman's 1987 Peterbilt 359 stands as a testament to the maxim, with its classic original dash and Goldman's personal touch all around.
January 5, 2023
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: 'Joke's on You' 389 no stranger to the spotlight
Hallahan Transport's 2022 Pete followed up its Limited Mileage championship in 2021 with a Working Combo win in the 2022 Pride & Polish competition to close out a stellar year on the truck show circuit for the rig.
December 29, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: Concert-hauling 2011 Pete 389 glider channels old-school look
The truck, which after 500,000 miles was intended to be driven occasionally by Shomotion owner Michael Scherkenbach, was instead given to a retiring owner-operator to keep him on tour with the fleet part-time. He didn't bat an eye at the coffin sleeper.
December 22, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom Champs: Rare White Freightliner Powerliner cabover still a part-time worker
The 1975-model COE was the first truck owned by G.L. Wasko when he started his business 45 years ago. He was the second owner of the rig then, and after some searching, the family also became the fifth owners of it in 2006.
December 8, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: A run in the 'Bandit' '21 W900L
It’s not just the classic black-and-gold throwback paint scheme from Smokey & the Bandit that's behind the name of this owner's rig. The Pride & Polish-winning W900L is now rolling memorial to John McCormick's "Bandit" Yorkie's memory.
December 2, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: 'Eighth house truck' for Rick and Terry Henderson
Winners in the Pride & Polish interior category, Bennett-leased owner-operators Rick and Terry Henderson of Ohio, feature a tastefully decorated interior, dazzling lighting and distinctive striping on their 2022 Peterbilt 389.
November 23, 2022
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