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This 80s Freightliner cabover was posted up to Overdrive Online ealier this year. Not much is known about it, as it was just a user-submitted photo, not a feature, but it looked nice and I though you might all like to see it, as well as it being just a pretty good photo shot of a truck in its natural surroundings. Where is this? Can you guess?
This cabover belongs to one Robert Carr. It’s got a 400 horsepower Cummins engine inside it, and Carr says that he “totally redid” the COE since it’s original stock configuration.
Carr said he cared about this Freightliner “like his kids.”
Visit Overdrive Online (click here).
Custom Semi Truck
This custom semi truck — and this truck really is around the furthest limits I’ve so far seen when it comes to customizing — look at this semi tractor. Every part of it has customization except maybe the tires. Even the stacks have stripes to suit the overall theme. And it is a harmonized custom theme. Look how all the elements go well together.
This custom semi tractor belongs to Jerad Wittwer, and it was originally dug up and covered by PDI Diesel’s blogger. Wittwer is the owner of PDI out in Utah (St. George, Utah).
It was intended to as best as possible in customization represent the PDI company. They set out in 2012 to get it ready for the Mid America Trucking Show.
The base of this truck is a 2002 Peterbilt 379. It had a 312 wheelbase, which after it was worked on turned into a 285 inch.
It has a 36 inch sleeper unit on it with custom walls.
The interior has more custom details than I can explain, but it also has some custom luxury trucker interior features like a good stereo system, 2 20 inch TVs, DVDs.
The truck was custom built with up to 10 or 11 guys working on it in the PDI shop at a time, 12 to 14 hours per day — there are over 6,000 work hours behind this customization.
Visit PDI Diesel (click here). Photo by Pride and Polish. Visit them (click here).
Custom Sleeper Semi
What do you think of this giant big sleeper unit, custom and polished? It’s a W9 custom semi that showed at a previous Mid America Trucking Show. This post is actually in part a reminder about the big show — it’s the biggest one in the world. Is anyone going? If there are any amateur photographers / video-ographers out there who are going, let us know. We could use some photos and we’d work something out with you.
The show is in Kentucky — Louisville — at the Kentucky Exposition Center. It gets crowds of 70,000 people. It has 1,000 exhibitors from all over the United States. It’s happening in 3 months, in March. The end of March and beginning of April.
For anyone thinking about going to this giant annual heavy-duty trucking industry event, admittance is $10. But if you “register” before February 29, you get free admission (link at bottom to do so).
SHOW HOURS
March 31
VIP: 10 am- 1 pm
1 pm – 6 pm
April 1
10 am – 6 pm
April 2
9 am – 4 pm
There’s onsite parking and also off-site tractor-trailer parking.
About the MATS trucker show (click here). Regisration here: (click)
