Haulin’ Ash
- February 03, 2012
One of the most wicked ash haulers on the road is a rare 2005 Peterbilt 379X called Haulin’ Ash, owned by Burningham Enterprises of American Fork, Utah, located about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Truck Features
Triple One
- February 01, 2012
SRS National fleet owner and part-operator Jerry Beaudoin drives his company's calling card By Todd Dills Many big-rig customizers back their way into building a dream truck. After years of on-road hauling, all the while slowly acquiring the technical know-how to take a working tractor and turn it into a project truck, they hot-rod an old family workhorse or turning a junkyard find into a machine that gleams like new. Jerry Beaudoin, owner of the Southington, Conn.-based SRS National fleet of 10 company-owned ...
Lights Out
- January 30, 2012
By James Jaillet Sanger, Calif., resident and single-truck owner Stephen Ashburn’s 2005 Peterbilt 379, pictured here under the lights on the north side of the Las Vegas strip, presented an ideal starting point for his truck-showing career. The car hauler “was wanting to build my own truck, but just didn’t know where to start, to be honest,” he says, and when he saw the truck for sale online in 2007, “It was everything I loved.” The truck didn’t have many miles on ...
Gone Postal
- January 30, 2012
When the company Robert Ewing works for, Hi-Plains Leasing, bought a ’97 Mack previously owned by the United States Post Office, turning the truck into a show rig was one use he hadn’t envisioned for the box-bodied, snub-nosed “Gone Postal.
Hell on Wheels
- January 29, 2012
Sherry Martinez's 1990 Peterbilt 379, affectionately known around Southern California as either The Mean Bitch or 666, is visually hell on wheels born from personal trials and tribulations...
Hillwick ’66
- January 29, 2012
By Bruce W. Smith It’s a beautiful spring morning as Robert “Bobby” Mulvihill Jr. rolls up to his shop in the New Jersey countryside, drops the air suspension so his truck is sitting bad low, and blips the throttle a couple times. The rumble from the 550-hp 502 Chevy Big Block is just as sweet as the classic ‘72 Chevy C-10 it powers. What’s even sweeter a few steps away in a shop filled with cool rides is another classic truck Mulvihill ...
Untouchable
- January 23, 2012
By Christi Cowan Small fleet owner and frac sand hauler Kenny Yeary’s 2010 Kenworth W900, which he bought new in March 2009, is the brainchild of his son Gary and son-in-law Jimmy Wiley, who convinced him to turn the stock rig into something different. “You do what they want sometimes, you know,” Yeary says of keeping his family happy. Fortunately in this case, though he’s quick to point out that customizing trucks is not his line of work, he’s not unhappy with ...
Ivy’s Poison
- January 06, 2012
By Lanier Norville (Photos by Paul Hartley) He had always wanted a custom truck. But co-owning and running Southern Transport, a 20-truck fleet that hauls frac sand in Texas and three other states, left Thomas Ivy little time for side projects. When Southern Transport driver Bruce Smith entered a company truck in Overdrive’s Pride and Polish truck beauty competition in 2008, Ivy’s eyes were opened to a world of possibility. Their customized 2009 Peterbilt 389, Few Dollars More, took home Fourth in ...
Inferno Jo
- December 22, 2011
by Todd Dills Dino Guadagni is no stranger to custom vehicle work, having been reared in the family that four generations ago founded Western Distributing and Transportation Corporation as the first distributor of Coors beer. Guadagni’s father, Vieri Gaines, is a prominent NHRA Pro Stock driver and mechanic who had him and his two brothers “into cars and other stuff” from a young age. But “I kind of took to the trucks,” says Guadagni. His first was an antique 1953 Peterbilt he ...
Wicked Green
- December 12, 2011
Wes Malmgren used bits and pieces of trucks he’d seen through the years to design and build his personal 2004 Peterbilt and its eye-catching paint job by James Jaillet It’s not so much the graphics that capture the attention as it is the color combo of Wes Malmgren’s Peterbilt 379. The black and lime green flattop, an in-house build done at the Malmgren family’s company headquarters in Aurora, Utah, is the rebel amongst a fleet of more refined workhorses. Though Malmgren’s trucking roots ...
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