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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 [...]

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      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 [...]

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      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 [...]

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      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…

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      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 [...]

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      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 ….

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      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.”….

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      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.

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      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!…

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      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 [...]

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      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….

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      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…

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Buyer’s Guide: Steering Wheels Image with no title

Thinking of adding a custom steering wheel? Then our steering wheel buyer’s guide is a must-read. Few items on a custom rig makes as much of a statement to the owner about their truck than the steering wheel. It’s what the owner hold’s on to day in and day out and casts an eye toward innumerable times during a driving stint. It’s also the one singular item that catches the attention of all those who peek inside the cab. So making the right choice is…

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