Kenworth W900s TV Stars when “Swamp Loggers” ply the North Carolina woods; TV show Becomes a hit on the Discovery Channel …

A Father’s Day weekend tradition for 31 years in North-Eastern Pennsylvania, the Annual Antique Truck Club of America (ATCA) National show in beautiful downtown Macungie, PA., sees more than 600 trucks on display…

Diesel Fuel is expensive and prices are once again on the rise. With higher fuel prices comes an increase in the risk of fuel theft. Our product, The Fuel Lock is the only totally secure way of preventing fuel theft and/or sabotage…

One of the things I really love about Custom Rigs readers is every one of you are proud to be truckers, and each of you take a lot of pride in the rig your drive that brings food to your tables–and ours. The other thing I enjoy is when you take the time to share photos with our staff of what you’re doing and the rigs you’re driving. I thought I’d share a couple of the latest that came in yesterday…

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…

THE GRIFFIN TOOL
New kit provides stress-free trailer landing gear operation
Owners of custom  big-rigs who want to quickly and easily drop their trailer landing gear can now turn to The Griffin Tool from Transport Product Solutions.

The Griffin Tool, designed by a truck driver, utilizes your truck’s low-pressure air system to power-assist the raising/lowering of the landing [...]

ROADKING SHOCKS
Big-Bore mono tube design provides better ride & handling under all driving/load conditions
Shocks are a custom rig’s primary buffer between the road surface and the springs, and on up to the cab. Worn-out or poorly designed shocks means a long, unpleasant  ride for the driver.

Shocks also control the springs, which keep the tires planted [...]

Cool custom rig models
In our Fall ‘09 issue Lucinda Coulter, managing editor of our sister magazine, Overdrive,  did a nice article on a Frenchman who builds replica scale models of all types of big-rigs as a hobby. His favorite trucks are American custom rigs.

The twist is Christian Chapson is literally an ocean away from our [...]

Well it’s finally here…Klos Custom Trucks – The Book, with photography by Robbie ‘Dingo’ Rose. 280 photos splashed across 112 glossy pages in A4 size. Great coffee table material! The book is $40 (Aussie Dollars) plus postage and handling (around $10 to anywhere in Australia). It will be available for our overseas mates too! …

Courtesy of Texas Chrome Shop

When you get an invitation from the boyz at the Chrome Shop Mafia like that there’s no way one can turn it down. You just know the turn out is going to be good and the hospitality terrific. What we found were 97 trucks on site–72 of them registered in the Chrome Shop Mafia’s Truck Show–and a whole lot of fun…

I had an interesting conversation a while back with the owner of a late-50’s Mack who was in the throe’s of a full-on restoration. He was telling about all the things he was doing and how proud he was of how it was coming together. When the conversation turned to the interior he made the passing remark about going to put in a 4-track tape deck. Later I got to thinking about how custom truck owners love their music and seem to always have a sound system in their rigs. But a 4-track in an old Mack? No way. I had a 4-track at one time and I know it was way after 1960. But I kept my mouth shut not actually knowing what “period” sound system might be more appropriate–until now…

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…

The Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, which is adjacent to Iowa 80 Truckstop, I-80 Exit 284, has constructed a new exhibit on vintage electric trucks to educate the public on the history and origins of electric vehicles. Included in the exhibit is a 1911 Walker Electric Milk Delivery Truck…

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!…

Custom Rigs readers and customizing shops are sweating a few bullets trying to tidy up the last bits on rigs they are bringing to our Pride & Polish beauty show. A number of brand new custom rigs are debuting in Dallas, inclduing three fresh out of Triple R Diesel’s shop…

truck beauty show contestsants are probably the hardest working bunch of anyone attending MATS

It takes a lot more creativity to make a rig look super cool by minimizing than it does bolting on every chrome accessory known to man.

Somebody’s gotta
know the low down on whats goin on!

Several of my truck customizing friends have contacted me about the upcoming Mid-America Truck Show (MATS) in Louisville, Kentucky.

In a way customizing, in and of itself, is therapeutic.

In a way customizing, in and of itself, is therapeutic.

Taking pride in our work and workmanship has rewards even in tough economic times.