And the winners are…
DALLAS PRIDE & POLISH
TRUCK BEAUTY CONTEST
GREAT AMERICAN TRUCKING SHOW

August 26-28, 2010

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GATS Truck Show Winners On The Podium
Contest winners to be announced today at GATS awards ceremony, which marks 20th anniversary for Pride & Polish

Hundreds of attendees and truck beauty show competitors filled the show floor at last year’s Great American Trucking Show in Dallas as the winners were announced for the annual Custom Rigs’ Pride [...]

Spotting a long line of extended and short hood A-Model Kenworths isn’t an unusual sight at the Watsontown, Pa.,-based Spencer’s Chrome Shop show. The show focuses on old-school rigs, especially KW A-Models of yesteryear. This year’s show, held July 11, had 72 trucks turn out.

For the past 20 years and counting, Berube’s Truck Accessory shop in Bow, N.H., has been one of the heavy hitters in the business of making New England’s trucks stand out in a crowd. They also know how to throw a party.

Deep in the heart of Lebanon County, Pa., where the sight of a horse and buggy is nothing out of the ordinary, the normally quiet town of Lebanon is awakened each year one day in June by the sound of straight pipes, Jake brakes and train horns…

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…

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

It was all “Boots & Barbed Wire” under the Convention Center roof as Custom Rigs Pride and Polish truck beauty show wrapped up during the Great West Truck Show in Las Vegas…

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 [...]

ROCKIN’ IN JERSEY
East Coast Large Cars annual truck show draws big numbers and fair weather
by Bruce W. Smith

They started rolling in on Friday night and the trucks kept coming in until mid-day today as the East Coast Large Cars annual New Jersey truck show opened at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta just off Route [...]

Photos of the winners at the 12th annual 75 Chrome Shop Pride & Polish truck beauty show held in Wildwood, Florida, April 24-25, 2010.

Widowmaker, Decepticon Motormaster, and Freshly Squeezed among the big winners at Custom Rigs annual 75 Chrome Shop truck beauty show in Wildwood….

With the 75 Chrome Shop Show (April 24th and 25th in Wildwood, FL) less than five days away, now is the time to register your truck for Custom Rig’s Pride and Polish Truck Beauty Competition…

Mid-America Truck Show Photo Sampling

Here is a small sampling of a few of the rigs at the Mid-America Truck Show going on in Louisville.

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Truck show for a cause

The 21st Annual Great Salt Lake Kidney Kamp Truck Show will be held at Thanksgiving Point this year Aug. 13, 14 and 15.  Thanksgiving Point is located adjacent to I-15 at exit 284 in Lehi, Utah, approximately 25 miles south of Salt Lake City.

The show will be held at the Electric Park [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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…

TRUCK SHOW CHANGES BREWING
There are a number of changes taking place related to Custom Rigs in 2010 that may have an influence on how you plan your show and travel schedule next year.

We’ll not be part of  Truck Show Latino next month out in Pomona, California, nor the Mid-America truck beauty show in Louisville next [...]

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 ….

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 [Sequel] it’ll a big step up-a lot bigger and way more fancier than what I’m driving right now.”….

Every new custom rig brings somgats2009bsmith_134ething special to the customizing table. Take interiors, for example. If you didn’t make it to GATS, or somehow missed looking inside the cabs of some of the first-time entrants, you really missed seeing some great craftsmanship.

When Overdrive’s Pride & Polish awards ceremony concludes just before noon today here at the GReat American Trucking Show, don’t be surprised to hear a few new names mixed in with those of truckers who are regulars on the show-truck circuit. This is an awesome mix of custom rigs!…

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 [...]