- December 27, 2010
Ronnie King's '94 Pete looks like a ripe banana, but it's no softy when it comes to getting the job done
by Todd Dills
Independent owner-operator Ronnie King, of Jamestown, Tenn., bought Ripe-N-Ready from a junkyard “about six years ago,” he says.
The 1994 Peterbilt 379’s currently pristine condition, netting him a couple 2010 truck show placing finishes, is the product of the resulting years’ worth of hard work, conducted piecemeal at his own shop in large part.
Owner-operator King, with his own authority ...
- September 23, 2010
Andy Zary’s 51-year-old Mack B61 passes half decade in existence with a triumphant repeat of its big Las Vegas win in 2009 at the Great American Trucking Show...
- August 31, 2010
Owner-operator Voris Steward of Houston-based V.E.S. Transportation views his participation in Pride & Polish differently than many fellow competitors...
- November 07, 2009
Frame-up resto takes this 28-year-old Pete from Wyoming oil-field workhorse to Build-Off champion...Jerry Diemoz has logged more than 1.6 million miles in its cab, most of those miles plying the nasty roads and drilling sites of Wyoming's oil and gas fields hauling rigging and equipment...
- October 21, 2009
Brian O'Leary has accomplished more than most in his 37-year trucking career including Equipment Driver of the Year and the Colorado Motor Carriers Association's 2007 Driver of the Year. But it's his latest accomplishment - a custom build-out of a 1999 Peterbilt 379 stretched to 300 inches - that makes it all worthwhile...
- October 16, 2009
"Hot rodding has no limits.
- March 13, 2009
Nothing gets Mike Salinas’s adrenaline pumping faster than seeing a green-light flash on a Christmas tree and feeling 540 cubic-inches of blown Chevrolet, sitting inches ahead of his toes, punch him into the seat while it lifts the wheels of his 7.0 Pro nostalgia dragster skyward. The thrill of that seven-second quarter-mile, 200-mph blast is hard to beat. It’s also hard to beat his tow vehicle: a 1997 Peterbilt 379 extended hood that reflects both the colors and style of ...
