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…

GWTS OPENS
Our  Las Vegas Pride & Polish truck beauty contest is looking good with nearly three dozen rigs crammed into the North Hall of here at the LV Convention Center.

I haven’t had much time yet to look closely at all of them, but can tell you this: there are some really nice trucks on display, both combos and tractors.

There’s [...]

GWTS calls
It feels like I just stepped off the plane from New Jersey covering the East Coast Large Cars truck show. Oh! That’s right, I came home Sunday night. No wonder my suitcase was already packed for my trip to Vegas in the morning….

I like Lost Wages. Nice town–for a convention. Much better for golf, [...]

[ October 23, 2010 to October 24, 2010. ]
Truckin’ For Kids
Pride & Polish rolls into SoCal for a good cause

The Truckin’ for Kids Truck Drags and Show & Shine is an exciting event held annually in Southern California. This annual fund raiser attracts a diverse crowd of people who are interested in everything from big rigs and drag racing to [...]

[ October 8, 2010 to October 10, 2010. ] The fourth of five Pride & Polish national truck beauty shows this year takes place on the East Coast at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in conjunction with country’s FIRST and ONLY truck and vocational equipment extravaganza, held at one of the country’s most famous NASCAR and Drag Raceways…

No matter the economy, you can’t lose in this Las Vegas venue, where the free advice, equipment displays, job opportunities, regulatory updates and beautiful show trucks offer plenty to owner-operators…

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…

Jersey isn’t the first place one would think of being a hotbed for customizing trucks. Gangsters ripping them off and hijacking their loads? Sure. But truck dealerships ripping a new rig apart and transforming what was once ordinary into an extraordinary work of rolling artisanship and craftsmanship? Fuhgetaboutit. That is unless you’re thinking pure Mayhem…

[ August 26, 2010 to August 28, 2010. ] The Great American Trucking Show , Aug. 26-28, is the nation’s second-largest trucking trade show and offers attendees a wide variety of industry exhibitors and informational sessions. Find a job, attend free educational seminars, get the latest information from top industry leaders or see the amazing works of art at Custom Rigs’ Pride & Polish Truck Beauty Contest.

Year’s end is always a time of reflection. We look back over the past 11 months and take measure of where we are now in relation to where we were when the year began. We hope progress has been made in the positive and the road we took, with all the different twists, turns, and intersections life has thrown our way, was the proper one. From there we plot out where we’d like to head as the New Year begins. So it is around our offices …

T-DESIGN ENTRIES START COMING IN

We’ve received a number of e-mails and phone calls from readers who have ideas for our Custom Rigs tees.

Some of those who responded are just your average guy who has some cool ideas to a couple pros who design t-shirts for a living.

Among the average Joes out there is Michael McPherson [...]

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…

One of the coolest custom rigs to hit the show truck scene this year rolled into the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas last week — and rolled out with accolades and awards. Ivy’s Poison, a 1986 Peterbilt 359owned by Kilgore, Texas-based Thomas Ivy, wowed everyone who saw it on display at GATS. This custom rig, its build process was closely guarded by 4 State Trucks’ Chrome Shop Mafia crew, won the prestigious Pride & Polish Best Limited Mileage Bobtail Paint award and other trophies at the GATS Overdrive’s Pride & Polish truck beauty show…

It wasn’t a surprise for anyone attending the 2009 Great American Trucking Show in Dallas to see a heavy contingency of custom rigs entered in Overdrive’s Pride & Polish truck beauty show. After all, trucking is big in Texas. The surprise was just how good the boys in the Lone Star state are when it comes to customizing their rides…a number of trucks customized by San Antonio-based ACW Specialties and the Texas Chrome Shop hauled away more than half of the Pride & Polish trophies….

Maybe someday Overdrive’s Pride & Polish events will have a “sound off” competition where the biggest and baddest can strut their stuff for cash and prizes. I think both truckers and the general public would love it.

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 [...]

Tomorrow I’ll be in New Jersey,  if all goes according to plan, so I can check out how Richie Acosta and the boys at East Coast Large Car are getting along. This is one of the biggest weekends of their trucking lives as they become the promoters of a full-on truck show instead of being [...]

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….

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…

The wall around my desk is beginning to look like a travel agency. I have itineraries for events lined up across it and little Post-It notes attached to every one.
April 23rd finds me flying down to Orlando and then driving on south to be at our Overdrive’s Pride & Polish  event at Chrome Shop 75 in Wildwood, [...]

The following is a list of winners from Overdrive’s 2009 Louisville, Kentucky,  Pride &Polish Truck Beauty Show held March 19-21:
SPECIAL AWARDS
BEST OF SHOW WORKING BOBTAIL
Homer Schultz III, 1993 Peterbilt 379 Tow Truck
BEST OF SHOW WORKING COMBO
Marcel Pontbriand, 1989 Peterbilt 379 and 1992 48 ft Stoughton Van, Little Train
BEST LIMITED MILEAGE BOBTAIL [...]

NAST 2008 CHAMPION CROWNED
Bobby Lindamood (center), owner of Lindamood Demolition in Irving, Texas, holds $5,000 check, which is part of winning the coveted 2008 NAST Truck-Lite Trophy. He is flanked by son Jake (right) and the winning rig's driver Brad Johnson (left).

While some 70,000 people came to the Mid-America Truck Show to see [...]

Mid-America truck beauty show a shinning success with surprise winners

The economy may be looking bleak and truckers down in the dumps, but one wouldn’t have sensed it by the look of the custom rigs and smiles on the faces of everyone attending Overdrive’s annual Pride & Polish Truck Beauty Championship and Big Rig Build-Off [...]