- January 05, 2010
Illinois Truck Beauty Show Nears
3rd Annual Trucker's Pride Truck Beauty Contest Sets February Date
Get your polishing rags and chrome polish warmed up because the truck beauty shows are getting close.
One of the first truck beauty shows of the year is the 3rd Annual Trucker's Pride Truck Beauty Contest opens it's registration as part of the Mid-West Truck Show happening February 5-6 at the Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL.
The indoor truck beauty show is a judged competition put on by the ...
- December 07, 2009
Texas Custom Rig Gets More Time In Spotlight
Project One catches the attention of Truck Guys TV at GATS
Roland Mendez (left) sent us this video link showing Triple R Diesel's "Project One" Peterbilt at our Great American Truck Show in Dallas last August. The truck is awesome and the video interview, done by Truck Guys TV, gives a lot of insight to its build:
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- October 30, 2009
Ready to show off your custom rig?
The 47th Annual Mid-West Truck Show will be held February 5 & 6, 2010 at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois, featuring its wildly successful “Trucker’s Pride” Truck Beauty Contest for work and show trucks.
The 2010 Mid-West Truck Show includes expanded displays, programs and space for nearly 200 exhibitors to help truck operators move ahead in a complex market while facing the challenges of changing regulations, an uncertain economy and increased costs.
The 2010 ...
- October 16, 2009
In an on-going effort to expand and refine Custom Rigs Pride & Polish truck beauty shows, the Randall-Reilly Events Division has just announced the selection of Neal Holsomback, Victor Verret, Barbara Holsomback and Suzanne Stempinski to manage the logistics, judging and on-site operations for all 2010 Pride & Polish truck beauty events. Other changes include...
- September 23, 2009
Every Labor Day weekend the normally quiet streets of St-Joseph de Beauce, Quebec, Canada come alive as customized big-rigs drag race uphill to the delight of 20,000 screaming fans. For the past six years, our neighbors to the north have put on one of the more mind-blowing events in big-rig motorsports: The annual uphill diesel truck drags in Quebec, Canada. Check out what you've been missing out on ....
- September 01, 2009
Thousands of CDL holders filled out entry forms during the past three months for a chance to win Custom Rigs "Win big With Custom Rigs" '98 International 9400 customized by the Chrome Shop Mafia and powered by a Reliabilt replacement engine, covered by a three-year, 300,000-mile warranty from Detroit Diesel...but only one name was pulled out of the pile: John Lacusky. "When I get this truck it'll a big step up-a lot bigger and way more fancier than what ...
- June 30, 2009
GREAT WEST TRUCK SHOW
Custom Rigs Big Winners In Las Vegas
"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" doesn't apply to Arrowhead-Nestle Water company driver Michael Salcido.
The Southern California native rolled his 2007 Freightliner Columbia water tanker home with the Waterford crystal bowl trophy he won at this year's Great West Truck Show in Las Vegas. Salcido won the highest honor for custom rigs: Best of Show Combo.
"I've been chasing a Best of Show for 13 years," said the barrel-chested trucker immediately ...
- May 07, 2009
Overdrive's Pride & Polish truck beuaty show at the 75 Chrome Shop in Wildwood, Florida, sees some very surprising winners from Texas and Connecticut mixed in with some of the usual hardware-hoarding culprits of the custom rigs type. The most notable were the dump combos, which, in a sense, cleaned house, leaving many of the box trailers and flatbed boys running home empty-handed. And those guys from Georgia-based Taylor Transport, now they know how to bring home the chrome....
- May 04, 2009
75 Chrome Shop's annual Overdrive Pride & Polish truck beauty show in Wildwood, Florida, saw a number of new class winners in both working rig combos and bobtails. For a complete listing of the winners, read on...
