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This truck is named after its owner Richy Ruiz, whose nickname is “The Punisher,” who used to be a boxer before he became a trucker after a serious car accident.
By the way, the person who hit him was someone who was street racing and rear ended Ruiz’s car. He was in the hospital for months.
Ruiz is from a trucking family in New Jersey, and when he started becoming the person around town people called to haul motorbikes out east, things led to him starting a car hauling service called Exotic Carriers. The company hauls for celebrities, businesspeople, and snowbirds. They have 10 trucks. This is the most done up of the fleet.
The truck has had some significant modifications since it came off the factory line 15 years ago.
The truck originally had a 62″ Aerodyne sleeper and a 365″ wheelbase. The work from there was done by Elizabeth Truck Cetnter. This custom job was one of the (ETC) team’s first ever, and Ruiz had the customization done shortly after getting the Kenny.
The headlights got shaved and they added single rounds on Double JJ brackets as some of the first orders of business. Then ETC added the sound system / stereo, chrome, a flat panel TV, some fenders (custom). Those changes still aren’t all that was done and what you see on the truck today.
Ten Four Magazine reported on the truck and customization. The trucker publication wrote, “The truck’s exterior features many custom-built parts including the visor, the boxes (one hides the PTO tank for the wet kit), and the rear light bar. The entire fiberglass hood was re-engineered to lower it down more over the wheels, and the rear pieces of the front fenders were extended down to line up with the bottom of the tanks and steps.” They also did:
- Custom sleeper skirts
- Custom tank fairings
- Custom one-piece rocker panels
- Fuel tank filler necks moved toward rear of tank
- Centered fuel tanks below sleeper
This Kenworth truck has fiberglass fenders that got installed over top of the drive tires. Also, a billet grille, a 24″ bumper, 8 inch stacks, custom motorbike headlights, high intensity bulbs in the headlights, a Taylor wing.
They chopped the breather lids, on the aluminum step plates they laser inscribed the Exotic Car Carriers logo), and did a bunch of other customization.
Some of the most notable touches:
- All of the door handles shaved
- Doors were changed to suicide-style with remote poppers
- Cool tribal paint scheme in silver and charcoal grey and a skull on the back
Specs:
- This Kensworth W900L
- Bought in ’01
- Pushed by a Cat C-15 550
- 18-speed transmission
- 3.70 rears
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