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July 2010
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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June 2010
A Father’s Day weekend tradition for 31 years in North-Eastern Pennsylvania, the Annual Antique Truck Club of America (ATCA) National show in beautiful downtown Macungie, PA., sees more than 600 trucks on display…
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June 2010
It looks like rush hour on the Garden State Parkway with garbage trucks, reefers, dumps, tow trucks, boom trucks, tankers and an assorted mix of new and antique custom bobtails nose to tail in a slow procession. The difference is it’s way after rush hour and the view the drivers see slowly moving past their high perches is lush countryside around the Sussex County Fairgrounds
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May 2010
No matter the economy, you can’t lose in this Las Vegas venue, where the free advice, equipment displays, job opportunities, regulatory updates and beautiful show trucks offer plenty to owner-operators…
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April 2010
Photos of the winners at the 12th annual 75 Chrome Shop Pride & Polish truck beauty show held in Wildwood, Florida, April 24-25, 2010.
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April 2010
Custom Rigs INSIDER, our digital magazine supplement, has just been e-mailed to about 100,000 owner-operators, subscribers, and advertisers. So if you get an e-mail with a link to the “INSIDER,” please check it out…
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March 2010
Complaints come over the CB about high fuel prices, low pay and long hours. Texas owner-operator Drennon Durham’s response is lacquered across the rear window of his 2007 Peterbilt. One word say’s it all: Kwitcherbitchin. “Easy Money” is the 23-year-old entrepreneur’s CB handle, given to him by a fellow trucker in recognition of Durham’s success at such a young age…
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February 2010
Jersey isn’t the first place one would think of being a hotbed for customizing trucks. Gangsters ripping them off and hijacking their loads? Sure. But truck dealerships ripping a new rig apart and transforming what was once ordinary into an extraordinary work of rolling artisanship and craftsmanship? Fuhgetaboutit. That is unless you’re thinking pure Mayhem…
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January 2010
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.” Other than a paint job, Ewing and Hi-Plains used the truck as purchased for nearly three years before taking it out of service, putting it into the shop and, ultimately, leading it onto the truck beauty show scene.
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November 2009
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Do-It-Yourself
Custom KW Door Window Trim
Give your Kenworth’s cab the chopped look by adding upper window trim panels
A popular customizing trend among KW owners is adding a painted trim piece to the top of the door window frame to give the cab a chopped look.The trim fits along the door lip at the top [...]
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