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Business

Western Star hosting design contest

Western Star Truck Sales launched “The Design Our Star Project” to build a Western Star show truck from the ground up with features determined by popular vote through social media channels. The completed truck will be showcased at the 2014 edition of the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky. Fans and customers cast their first […]

March 21, 2013

Business

De-Elegant Model Truck Fleet builds trucking icons with new mag

Kuenn McClinton adds publishing and legend-building to his core longtime model-truck-build business at MATS 2013.

March 21, 2013

Business

The wrap on Continental’s custom LoneStar

Continental Tire’s new Road-Show trailer, debuting at the Mid-America Trucking Show, deserved a high-custom-class hauler, so the company took its 2010 International LoneStar to the Mafia at 4 State Trucks…

March 21, 2013

Voices

‘Hooked!’ — more on Homer’s custom wrecker

Accolades were heaped on Milwaukee-based Homer Schultz’s amazing custom 1993 Peterbilt 379 wrecker in the wake of Overdrive’s story on the rig.

March 8, 2013

Channel 19

Pride in your ride, Midwest-style

Meet the project 2000 Peterbilt organizers of the Midwest Pride in Your Ride event, benefiting the American Cancer Society, are raffling off beginning this year.

February 21, 2013

Custom Rigs

Video, pics: Custom 1988 Freightliner

Davis custom-built the FLD after locating it in a salvage yard in 2000 — today he hauls reefer freight with it primarily between Illinois, Texas, Florida and his home base in Michigan.

February 21, 2013

Channel 19

More photos: Mel Davis’ custom Freightliner

A visit with Michigan-based independent owner-operator Melvin Davis in Nashville yields more great pictures of his custom big-bunk reefer hauler.

January 29, 2013

Custom Rigs

Holiday blues: Photo gallery of December’s featured truck

It was beginning to feel a bit like Christmas when Dallas-based model Ally, wearing a fur-trimmed snowflake outfit, posed in front of show truck Deja Blue.

December 20, 2012

Life

Chase the holiday blues

Check out this beautiful show truck with gorgeous model Ally Peer decked out in holiday attire.

December 9, 2012

Custom Rigs

Against the grain: November’s featured show truck

After being coaxed by employers to accept Overdrive’s offer to model in front of a show truck, Teresa Danielson talks about the challenges females face on the road.

November 29, 2012

Life

Casting call for real women of trucking

The search is on for real women of trucking to pose in front of beautiful show trucks.

November 28, 2012

Channel 19

SuperRigs 2013 calendar: Familiar face in an unfamiliar place

Sneak peak at familiar faces in the Shell SuperRigs 2013 calendar, now available with an oil change at participating locations. And: Vid from the 2012 30th anniversary show in Joplin, Mo., highlighting the city’s rebuilding efforts.

November 8, 2012