Custom Rigs Blog

March 11, 2010

We are working hard to get our event calendar filled as our web site is fast becoming THE place for those checking out trucking conventions, truck beauty shows, truck rallies and diesel drags. So if you know of an event we DON’T have listed on our 2010 calendar, please drop us a note about the event and a photo (if you have one) to go with the information.

March 9, 2010

All in a twitter
My nephew says I’m one of those “early adopters” when it comes to technology. I like to think of myself the same way; I really like the newest and coolest high-tech things that make my life more productive. I like fast computers, high-end digital cameras, the newest pickups and cars, 3D movies [...]

March 8, 2010

Ford Super Duty ride/drive insightful
It’s been about 18 months since I opened the door to this office and began my new career as the editor of Custom Rigs. I love the job. The cool trucks I get to see being built first-hand and those doing the building are all pretty special.

But I have to admit, [...]

February 24, 2010

Color and how it changes our perceptions
One of our writer’s is putting together an article on color and how it plays such a big role in perceptions and moods.

But the twist of the article Carolyn Magner Mason is doing for an upcoming issue of Custom Rigs is how color affects the perceptions and moods of [...]

February 11, 2010

On being a morning person
Our office travel manager just e-mailed my pick-up time to meet the airport shuttle this coming Monday: 4AM.  I had to think about that one for a minute. Wow. 4Am. That’s at the very height of my last cycle of  REM sleep!

I am a morning person, just ask any of my [...]

February 8, 2010

Custom Rigs offers photos for sale at www.bigrigphotos.printroom.com. The photo sales site also offers photos printed on a wide variety of items from coffee mugs to t-shirts, greeting cards to mouse pads.

February 3, 2010

One recent web poll we took showed a rather large percentage of our poll takers couldn’t find our magazine at Petros or a chrome shop. That’s not good. So we’re taking steps to help remedy the situation and need your help….

February 1, 2010

Doing the right thing-helping those in need
Last Friday was one of those special days when you leave the office knowing you helped make a difference. Nothing worthy of headline news or anything of that sort. More of the pass-it-forward-type of difference where you have a good feeling inside knowing what you did was going to [...]

January 21, 2010

If you are like I am, seeing how my thoughts align with others is always fun. Somehow knowing I’m in the majority or minority on different topics makes me feel good. We post polls on our home page to test the waters so we can get a better idea of how our Custom Rigs’ web viewers think.

The results are seldom earth-shaking. Still, they do give us a few insights…

January 19, 2010

Mid- January is like staging at a dragstrip: roll up to the lights, ease forward until the top two lights on the Christmas Tree come on, and then anxiously wait for the green.

Then it’s throttle to the floor time, which is probably how many of you out there feel…