FOR SALE: CUSTOM RIG
- July 11, 2010
For Sale: 2011 Pete 389; 261" wheelbase; Lowleaf with Airride car-hauler front axle; 500hp Cat; 18spd; 3.36 gears with full locking diff's
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New Magazine Debuts
- May 12, 2010
Consumer magazines cover trucks as a hobby, but there’s never been a single source of information on trucks for contractors-- until now. That’s the premise of ProPickup. Last year we surveyed the readers of our construction magazines, Equipment World, Total Landscape Care, Better Roads and Aggregates Manager, and found that you own more than a million pickup trucks. That’s an average of eight per company...
Custom Race Car Hauler
- April 28, 2010
Reader's Ride V. GAINES ROLLIN' IN STYLE Gino Guadagni, owner of the flamed-out KW, Inferno Joe, featured in our Summer issue, sent us a photo of the custom rig that hauls his dad's Kendall Oil Avenger to all the NHRA events. V.Gaines' custom rig is a 2005 319" Pete 379X powered by a healthy 625 CAT backed with an 18 spd. Black pearl is the base and it's setup with a drop frt axle, 22” bumper, custom grill, drop-single large headlights on JJ ...
CUSTOM FUEL TANKS
- April 09, 2010
Outlaw partnered with Allen-Jac Diesel to produce the fully functional, center-fill, polished aluminum fuel tank, which is available in either an inverted-end (dished) design using straps of your choice or the ultra-cool strapless model that uses internally-built bracing to mount it to the original Peterbilt mounting brackets...
DIY: Custom Speaker Box
- March 01, 2010
Do- It-Yourself WOOFER POWER Fabricating a ported subwoofer enclosure for maximum bass with minimum cost By Cesar Alvarez (Photos by Bruce W. Smith) One of the attributes of a pro-level sound system is its ability to produce crisp, clean notes with the power to seemingly shake the earth. Such acoustic energy is a product not of the speakers or the amps powering them, but rather the speaker enclosures and how they are tuned for the vehicle in which they are mounted. This is especially true of a ...
Perfect Christmas Gifts
- November 30, 2009
Christmas is just around the corner and if you haven't a clue what to get your trucking buddy, trucking spouse, or trucking boss, think outside the typical Christmas gift box. Why not give them a photograph of their favorite custom rig in a frame, on a coffee mug, calendar, mouse pad, coasters, or even T-shirt...you can even send out your own Christmas cards with your rig on it--or hang a crystal custom rig ornament from the holiday tree all ...
PRO TIP: CUSTOM DPF EXHAUST
- November 11, 2009
PRO TIP Installing 8" Stacks On Custom Rigs Equipped With DPF Exhausts "One of the problems we have run into on the DPF trucks being customized here at Pro-Fab is not being able to put big stacks and big Pickett-style elbows on them," says shop owner and custom fabricator Randy Kaylor. So the Manheim, PA, fabrication and installation experts figured out a slick work-around that keeps the factory DPF system intact while providing the monster stack custom-look: They designed a faux exhaust to ...
KW Door Window Visor How-To
- November 09, 2009
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Do-It-Yourself Custom KW Door Window Trim Give your Kenworth’s cab the chopped look by adding upper window trim panels A popular customizing trend among KW owners is adding a painted trim piece to the top of the door window frame to give the cab a chopped look. The trim fits along the door lip at the top of window without interrupting the window operation and there are a number of aftermarket stainless offerings available. (Prices range from $90-$120 pair.) But if you are ...
INSIDE A BUILD-OFF CHAMPION
- November 07, 2009
Frame-up resto takes this 28-year-old Pete from Wyoming oil-field workhorse to Build-Off champion...Jerry Diemoz has logged more than 1.6 million miles in its cab, most of those miles plying the nasty roads and drilling sites of Wyoming's oil and gas fields hauling rigging and equipment...
SOUND ADVICE
- November 02, 2009
While legions of owner-operators are spending $500 to $1,500 to upgrade their stock sound system, another group of truckers don’t blink at dropping $5,000 or more for custom sound systems that rival those of show cars. If you love audio systems or are just looking for great information on the latest and greatest audio products, check out our audio guide.....