Chuck Armes of Oakland, Calif., owns this 2003 Pet

May 25, 2011

Chuck Armes of Oakland, Calif., owns this 2003 Peterbilt 379, to which he has added an 18-in. bumper, 8-in. straight pipes and a 14-in. drop visor. The truck is powered by a 550-hp Caterpillar and an 18-speed transmission. Armes hauls contaminated soil within California.

Owner-op Kevin Bruns: A Millennial's journey through car haul and tanker to dump and now step deck

Owner-op Kevin Bruns raced his 2019 LoneStar in this past weekend's Semi Stampede at Kuhnle Motorsports Park in Ohio. With his authority today, Bruns pulls a step deck after several years of local dump truck ownership and work around quarries and construction sites in the Nashville, Tennessee, region.

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