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Robb Mariani will be one of the judges in the Custom Rigs Pride & Polish competition, make exercise your new normal, flooding creates hassles for drivers, spotting severe weather a truck gallery and other trucking news items are featured.
August 7, 2011
Channel 19
Worth more than 78 words
Custom Rigs Editor Bruce W. Smith took this fanciful pic of three hot haulers at the Shell SuperRigs event June 2-4 at the Kenly 95 Petro in Kenly, N.C., this year. The flattopās hauling gallon jugs of Shell Rotella products, the Big Lonestar a company display trailer. The mid-size Lonestar lookalike, well, you can check [ā¦]
July 1, 2011
Channel 19
Owner-operator Jerry Kissinger named to new Shell āMillion-Mileā club
His is a familiar face ā to me, anyway. At MATS this week, Jerry Kissinger was named to Shell Rotellaās new Million Mile Haul of Fame, introduced to honor drivers who respect their rig and its engine, and take pride in a job well done.Ā Kissinger, owner-operator of a 1991 Mack Superliner, was honored as the [ā¦]
April 1, 2011
Business
75 Chrome Shop hosts Pride & Polish opener
The 2011 Custom Rigs Pride & Polish season ā and its new National Championship format ā kicks off in Wildwood, Fla., April 8-10 at the 13th annual 75 Chrome Shop Show.
March 25, 2011
Channel 19
Top road-trip songs at Custom Rigs, from Pioneer
Overdrive custom Class 8 dedicated magazine Custom Rigs recently reported news of Pioneer Electronicsā first-ever poll of its customers that asked for the best āRoad Tripā song. Willie Nelsonās āOn the road againā took top billing, while Pioneer reported, the guys were more likely to choose the the no. 2 track, āBorn to be wild,ā [ā¦]
December 13, 2010
Business
Oct. 23-24: California hosts Pride & Polish
The final Pride & Polish event of 2010 will take place at the Truckinā for Kids show in Irwindale, Calif.,Ā at the Toyota Speedway. The show will feature truck drags and a Wash and Shine event, along with the Custom Rigsā Pride & Polish beauty show. Truckinā for Kids celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The [ā¦]
October 22, 2010
Channel 19
Nashville Rush Chrome & Class show winners
Friday I reported from the site of the first annual Chrome & Class Truck Show at the Nashville location of Rush Truck Centers just east-southeast of downtown in Smyrna. If you missed it, read about the first day at Nashville Rush, a story largely about the Eady family of truck owners/builders from Hillsboro, Ala., and [ā¦]
October 19, 2010
Channel 19
āWorkinā Classā ā a new trucking tune from Leland Martin
Itās named after owner-operator Colin Stuartās ābig olā Peterbilt all decked out and tricked out with beautiful murals of horses on the sides of the trailer,ā country crooner Leland Martin told my colleagues over at Custom Rigs magazine ā āWorkinā Classā is the latest in Martinās catalog, written after meeting owner-operator Stuart and posing for [ā¦]
October 18, 2010
Channel 19
APU rebates, Leslie train horns for East Tennesseeās Sams Trucking
Check out my story in the September Overdrive magazine on various financial incentives ā rebates, grants, various low-interest loan programs ā state governments are making available to owner-operators and carriers to encourage the purchase of idle-reduction technologies like APUs, cab heaters and the like, and youāll find in the lead this pic of the new [ā¦]
September 8, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Coming attractions: Show trucks
The biggest venue for Pride & Polish, produced now by Overdriveās Custom Rigs, is coming in less than a month. Itās the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas, Aug. 26-28. This show always draws great rigs. You can view a quick sampling from the 2009 show in a music video on Overdriveās video player. There [ā¦]
July 30, 2010
Channel 19
SuperShowRigs.com documents truck show stars ā the rigs
If you missed it, get over to Overdrive sister magazine Custom Rigsā website for John Riccioās story about the recent Transport for Christ Truck Rally at the Lebanon Valley Expo Center in Lebanon, Pa., which āhas rocked Lebanon for the past 29 years,ā Riccio wrote, himself the proprietor over at SuperShowRigs.com, a veritable treasure of [ā¦]
July 13, 2010
Business
Boots grabs Great West Truck Show win
Boots Chivingtonās 2002 KW W900L, Boots & Barbed Wire, garnered the highest honor ā the Limited Mileage Best of Show.
June 23, 2010
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