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2013 National Champion, Working Combo: Bill Rethwisch’s 2012 Peterbilt 389 and Polar tanker
Three years ago, after 15 years of trucking – 13 of those spent hauling gas – Bill Rethwisch decided to start showing trucks. It’s paid off in more ways than one.
October 22, 2013
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2013 GATS Best of Show, Limited-Mileage Bobtail: Shawn Gibson’s 2013 Pete 389
Shawn Gibson has a wicked obsession with chrome, and he and his team made that known with their award-winning 2013 Peterbilt 389.
October 17, 2013
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2013 National Champion, Limited-Mileage Bobtail: Jerad Wittwer’s ’01 Peterbilt 379
Family Buziness combined the work of two of last year’s powerhouses: Todd Roccapriore and last year’s Working Bobtail winner – Jerad Wittwer’s company truck from Performance Diesel Inc. in St. George, Utah.
October 16, 2013
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2013 GATS Best of Show, Working Combo: Jerry Mies’ 2013 Peterbilt 389
This profile is part of a two-week series in which Overdrive will be publishing stories about the four Pride & Polish National Championship winners — crowned in August at The Great American Trucking Show — and the four best of show winners from the event.
October 15, 2013
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2013 National Champion, Working Bobtail: Josh Skidmore’s ’07 Pete 379
When Josh Skidmore set out to build his National Championship award winner, he didn’t want it to be overwrought or complicated. “We wanted to be simpler than everyone else. Clean lines, not a lot of flash – a real functional, working truck.”
October 11, 2013
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2013 GATS Best of Show, Limited-Mileage Combo: Brian Davis’ 2005 Pete 379
For the folks at Davis Bros. in Owensville, Ind., music and trucking are a natural duo, and they always name their trucks after song titles. Finding a name for their 2005 Peterbilt 379, however, was a struggle, but they eventually found a winner.
October 10, 2013
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2013 National Champion, Limited-Mileage Combo: Vinnie Diorio’s ’13 Pete 389
When Vinnie Diorio finished working on his award-winning 2013 Pete, he knew it had ideas others would replicate, so he dubbed the truck, appropriately, Trend Settin’.
October 9, 2013
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Pumped up: Demo-hauling ’07 Pete 379
Demolition work doesn’t keep Jake Lindamood from refashioning his award winner again and again.
September 26, 2013
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El Patron: Bill Hall Jr.’s ’04 Kenworth W900L
Bill Hall Jr. call his truck’s color “nightmare blue” that he estimates cost roughly $25,000 to have done.
September 12, 2013
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Rum Runner: ’89 Pete 379
This Cat-powered ’89 Peterbilt, isn’t the work of a big-money shop: All the work was done on a budget in a small garage behind Ernest Rubio’s house.
September 10, 2013
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Trend Settin’, Family Buziness crowned Pride & Polish national champs
********UPDATE 11/9/2015: Diorio’s “Trend Settin’” rig, with four others, is currently in the running for the Truckers’ Choice title among five years’ worth of Pride & Polish National Championship winners — follow this link to vote once every day through November 20, 2015, for your favorite.****** Vinnie Diorio and Todd Roccapriore have to find some room in their […]
August 24, 2013
Custom Rigs
Long Haul Survivor raffle rig in ATHS booth
Eldon Jaeger tells the story of the Long Haul Survivor cancer-benefit 2000 Peterbilt 379, being raffled off with a final drawing in May 2014.
August 22, 2013
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