Shop Profile: Botelho’s Custom Trucks

Notable builds/trucks: 355

Location: Los Banos, Calif.

Phone Number: (209) 652-4204

Botelho’s Custom Trucks is a merger of business and hobby. Jeff Botelho says when he was a kid, his dad was big into building custom street rods. The family, though, has made a living off of the trucking business. “So I turned [the hobby] into a truck thing. I melded the two,” Botelho says.

Botelho says his shop isn’t one that makes money off of selling chrome – for his shop, he says it’s all about custom builds and installs. “We’re the guy people come to when they want the full custom job. Everything’s done in house.”

Now, Botelho and his crew work on custom jobs during evenings and on weekends, because he still drives every day. He is planning on expanding the shop and moving into a larger facility, focusing more on building custom trucks and running the family business, Botelho Brothers Trucking.