We recently started both Facebook and Twitter accounts to post information and headlines related to custom trucks and truck customizing.
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Attending the biggest truck rodeo in Canada
I do a lot of traveling to truck shows around the country, both ours and those put on by others. But next week I’ll be taking my first trip to Canada to see a truck show — and from what I hear, it’s a whopper of an event. The [...]
We should have a place on the Custom Rigs web site where you guys could post custom rigs and related items for sale. You know, a “marketplace” or a Custom Rigs website flea market. Does this sound like a good idea or not? …
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REWARDING READERS
It’s fun when the work one does is gratifying with just enough challenges to keep it interesting.
One of the fun aspects of my job is working on ways to make your interaction with Custom Rigs fun — and rewarding. That’s why we came up with a couple new twists recently to reward each of [...]
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Mike Ryan pits his skills behind the wheel of his 1,950-horsepower daycab Freightliner Cascadia as he races to the top of Pikes Peaks on a narrow two-lane road to the summit…
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Trucking and construction industry personnel and enthusiasts will find plenty to see and do Oct. 8-9 during the inaugural Charlotte Diesel Super Show at the Charlotte Motor Speedway z-Max Dragway in Concord, N.C.
Produced by Randall-Reilly Business Media and Information, which also produces the Great American Trucking Show and Great West Truck [...]
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Custom Rigs Fall Issue Arrives
Subscribers to Custom Rigs should be seeing their latest copy any day now as the Fall 2010 issue is being shipped out this week according to the editors.
“This is another steller issue, filled with the reading material truckers who love custom big rigs will appreciate,” says editor Bruce W. Smith.
“We have [...]
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For the past 20 years and counting, Berube’s Truck Accessory shop in Bow, N.H., has been one of the heavy hitters in the business of making New England’s trucks stand out in a crowd. They also know how to throw a party.
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PRODUCT REVIEW:TRUCK-LITE LED HEADLIGHTS
DAY LIGHTERS
LED headlight technology proves its worth on dark roads
By Bruce W. Smith
One factor that weights heavily on truck stopping distances is driver reaction time.
Reaction time is directly related to your vision; the quicker you see a problem, the faster you react and the shorter the stopping distance.
Seeing and reacting isn’t a [...]
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