Iowa80 releases new catalog
- March 01, 2011
A new catalog featuring 450 new items is available, said truck accessory provider Iowa80.com of the Walcott, Iowa-based Iowa 80 Group.
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Top 10 Road Trip Songs
- December 08, 2010
Music Driven Pioneer's "Top 10" road trip songs poll results; Willie Nelson's "On The Road Again" tops all-time favorites Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., today announced the results of their first-ever “Favorite Road Trips Songs” poll. Conducted in partnership with Harris Interactive, the survey asked nearly 3,000 Americans “what are your favorite road trip songs of all time?” Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” topped the list, nabbing 27 percent of the votes, followed by an array of classic rock titles including: 2. “Born ...
Overdrive Celebrates 50th Anniversary
- September 23, 2010
It's special when any magazine can celebrate 50 years in print. But that's exactly what our parent publication, Overdrive, is doing next month when the editorial staff begins a retrospective examining 50 years’ coverage of owner-operators...
Charlie McDaniel’s ’69 359
- August 27, 2010
Take the time to walk among the 53 custom rigs in the Great American Trucking Show's Pride & Polish display area and you'll see a wide variety of fine rides. One that caught our eye here at the 2010 GATS is the red & black '69 Pete owned by Charlie McDaniels...
TOOL GIVEAWAY
- July 06, 2010
Enter now for a chance to win more than a $1,000 in professional-grade GearWrench handtools in our new "Reader's Rigs Tool Contest" ...
Rare Kenworth donated
- June 08, 2010
BULLNOSE KW FINDS NEW HOME Ray O’Hanesian Donates Kenworth to Iowa 80 Trucking Museum WALCOTT, IOWA -- Iowa 80 Trucking Museum has recently received a very generous gift from a long time trucking friend. Ray S. O’Hanesian, Bettendorf, Iowa has graciously donated his Kenworth KDC825C, the truck he has owned for over half of his life, to the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum. This truck is the last one of its kind that Kenworth produced. You may know the KDC825C by its common name, ...
CHARLOTTE SUPER SHOW
- June 03, 2010
The fourth of five Pride & Polish national truck beauty shows this year takes place on the East Coast at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in conjunction with country’s FIRST and ONLY truck and vocational equipment extravaganza, held at one of the country’s most famous NASCAR and Drag Raceways...
Boyd Bros Goes ProStar
- May 20, 2010
Navistar, Inc. announced today that it has received an order from Boyd Bros. Transportation, Inc. for 325 International® ProStar® + tractors equipped with EPA 2010 Advanced EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) MaxxForce® 13 engines...
NEW PPG SURFACE PREP PRODUCTS
- May 14, 2010
PPG announces a new line of DuraPrep products to help speed up surface prep. The line includes paint and coatings removers, degreasers and cleaners, and decal, graffiti, mastic and overspray removers, many of which are water-based products...
New Magazine Debuts
- May 12, 2010
Consumer magazines cover trucks as a hobby, but there’s never been a single source of information on trucks for contractors-- until now. That’s the premise of ProPickup. Last year we surveyed the readers of our construction magazines, Equipment World, Total Landscape Care, Better Roads and Aggregates Manager, and found that you own more than a million pickup trucks. That’s an average of eight per company...