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January 2015

Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info

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Custom Rigs January 2015 | Overdrive | 37 ReadeR Rigs Homemade heavy hauler Randy Harris of Corsicana, Texas, rebuilt this 1996 Peterbilt 377 a few years ago into a heavy hauler, adding special inserts, a new steer axle, a new transmission, a fourth axle, a double-locking fifth wheel and a nine-ton winch. Harris hauls construction equipment such as cranes, loaders, excava- tors and drills. He pulls seven-axle beam trailers, "making a total of 11 axles," he says. The truck is powered by a 3406E Caterpillar and a 10-speed transmission. In 'the ideal place' Oilfield equipment hauler Jay Aid says his home in Lake Charles, La., is "the ideal place" for what he does with his 2010 Peterbilt 379, as he's only two hours from Houston. He hauls three different trailers, including a step deck, a double- drop with a detachable neck and a stretch trailer that can extend up to 96 feet.

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