Dallas Pride & Polish Winners Announced
Truck beauty show’s 20 anniversary highlighted by wide range of winning big rigs in Dallas

Jonathan (left) and Pat Eilen brought their working rigs to Dallas from Minnesota and drove home with Best of Show in both Combo and Bobtail classes.

Andy Zary’s ‘59 Purple Mack was on the road hauling loads 48 years [...]

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…

Country Music Stars Perform at GATS
Singer-songwriter Randy Houser to treat show attendees at free concert

Randy Houser, one of the country's top music singers, will treat attendees of the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas Friday night.

Aficionados of custom trucks and lovers of country music attending the annual Great American Trucking Show in Dallas are [...]

Are you ready for The Great American Trucking Show?
Most of you are probably well-acquainted with the biggest trucking trade show of the year, but in case you aren’t, here’s a heads-up: The 2010 Great American Trucking Show will be at the Dallas Convention Center August 26-28, 2010.

Some of the exciting events that will be held [...]

Make/Model: 1959 White 2000T Basics: 5.9L Cummins, 5-in. exhaust, power steering, power brakes, air condition

Custom 1996 KW W900 For Sale

Shovelhead is a 1996 W900 L-hood heavy-hauler our shop spent two years building. It’s won over 22 awards at the last 8 shows. Truck has over 326 LED lights on it.

3406 CAT – 550 hp;  13-speed; 14,000# pound front, 40 rears. New wet line 80% virgin tires. Everything is new [...]

ICE ROAD TRUCKER TO SIGN AUTOGRAPHS

Alex Debogorski, “The Original Ice Road Trucker” and star of a television show, will meet fans and sign autographs in the Bridgestone Bandag Tire Solutions booth at The Great American Trucking Show in Dallas, Texas, on August 26-28, 2010.

Bridgestone Bandag Tire Solutions (BBTS), a division of Bridgestone Americas Tire [...]

Custom Rigs Fall Issue Arrives
Subscribers to Custom Rigs should be seeing their latest copy any day now as the Fall 2010 issue is being shipped out this week according to the editors.

“This is another steller issue, filled with the reading material truckers who love custom big rigs will appreciate,” says editor Bruce W. Smith.

“We have [...]

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 [...]

The gang at 4 State Trucks is rolling out a new customer rewards program – The Mafia Chrome Card – that will offer discounts on chrome, accessories and truck parts and other perks.

For Sale: 2011 Pete 389; 261″ wheelbase; Lowleaf with Airride car-hauler front axle; 500hp Cat; 18spd; 3.36 gears with full locking diff’s

Sandy Menzdorf just drove into the record books with 5 million accident-free miles driving for Central Freight Lines, the only company he’s worked for during the past 48 years….

TRUCKING ACCESSORIES CATALOG
IOWA80.COM Releases New Trucking Accessories Catalog

IOWA80.COM, part of the Iowa 80 Group, Walcott, Iowa, and the premiere provider of trucking accessories in North America, will release a brand new catalog this week.

The new catalog boasts over 300 new items that include everything from stacks and lights to interior and exterior chrome and stainless [...]

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” …

Mike Ryan pits his skills behind the wheel of his 1,950-horsepower daycab Freightliner Cascadia as he races to the top of Pikes Peaks on a narrow two-lane road to the summit…

Kenworth W900s TV Stars when “Swamp Loggers” ply the North Carolina woods; TV show Becomes a hit on the Discovery Channel …

WIDOW MAKER WOWS ROTELLA JUDGES
Todd Roccapriore captures Best in Show plus five category wins
with custom Peterbilt 379 at Shell Rotella SuperRigs

Todd Roccapriore of Hebron, Connecticut captured Best in Show honors and $10,000 with his custom built 2004 Peterbilt 379, Widow Maker,  at the 28th Shell Rotella SuperRigs held at the Lee Hi Travel Plaza [...]

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 [...]

[ October 1, 2010 to October 2, 2010. ] “Guilty By Association” Truck Show & Customer Expo-by Chrome Shop Mafia/4 State Trucks; October 1 & 2, Joplin Missouri. It’s the ‘event of the year’! Don’t miss it! Cool Trucks , Bands – Concerts, Good Food – BBQ , Vendors on site , Prizes – Give Aways , Shop Tours, Unbelievable Bargains on Parts, a Good Time for All

SHELL’S NEW “FACE”
Shell Rotella recently joined the social media universe and is already following many of you on Twitter and is hoping you will follow them back and “like” them on Facebook.

The goal for Facebook.com/ShellRotella and Twitter.com/ShellRotella is to be an information resource and an additional way to communicate with truckers, consumers and media.

The Shell [...]

Flying J and Comdata Reach Agreement For Card Acceptance

Ogden, UT – June 3, 2010 – Flying J Inc., a privately held Utah corporation who operates a large network of full-service travel plazas and fuel stops, announced today that Comdata methods-of-payment will now be accepted at more than 250 Flying J locations across the U.S. and [...]

[ October 8, 2010 to October 10, 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…

Thermo King Summer Rebate

Annual cash-back offer can save truckers up to $250 on Thermo King and Carrier® parts & accessories

Minneapolis, June 1, 2010 – Thermo King Corporation is offering customers rebates of up to $250 when they purchase qualifying parts for Thermo King and Carrier® units from participating Thermo King dealerships in [...]

Miller Electric Mfg. Co., a leading U.S. manufacturer of welding equipment, today announced a “Summer Savings” promotion that gives you up to $150 cash back when you purchase one of 11 product/accessory bundles between June 1 and September 30, 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…