Shop Profile: Triple R Diesel & Texas Chrome Shop

Notable builds/trucks: Project One, Vamonos

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Phone Number: (800) 794-9817

Spawned from the San Antonio-based repair mega shop Triple R Diesel, the Texas Chrome Shop rang its bells of independence on July 4, 2005.

It was then, says the shop’s co-owner Raul Mendez, “we got more into customizing and started building all kinds of different trucks.”

Triple R Diesel opened shop in October 2001 as a tri-axle and tandem dump truck repair and rebuilding center. After the Texas Chrome Shop’s inception, though, the shop started working on sleepers, day cabs, heavy haulers and quad-axles. The shop has  repaired, built and customized  hundreds of trucks since that time.

Triple R still serves as the company’s repair shop, while the Texas Chrome Shop works in fabrication, custom builds and custom part manufacturing.

Mendez says Triple R and the Texas Chrome Shop have interior specialists, audio gurus and body shop and installation crews on-site.

He also says they on adding a retail store front soon to house their in-house manufactured parts and serve as a showroom entrance to the shop’s facilities.