Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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Custom Rigs 62 | Overdrive | August 2014 A year's worth of shining, polishing, waxing and wiping comes to a head this month in Dallas at the Great American Trucking Show, where four trucks will emerge as the 2014 Overdrive's Pride & Polish National Champions. The contest pits the 24 Best of Show winners from the season's five Pride & Polish shows, dating back to last year's GATS winners. On hand and in the competition will be the winners from the 2013 Pride & Polish events at GATS and the Performance Diesel Inc. Truck Show & Dyno event, along with the top rigs from the 2014 Pride & Polish events at the 75 Chrome Shop Show, River States Customz Show and Fitzgerald Truck Show. The trucks will be specially staged and judged in a special round, apart from the show's main judging round. In addition to the National Championship trucks, GATS also will be packed with show trucks competing in the gen- eral Pride & Polish competition, and the winners will qualify to compete in next year's championship round. The show's winners will be announced in a ceremony open to the public in the show truck staging area at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23. Here are some of the trucks that will be competing in the championship: Crowning show truck kings Overdrive's Pride & Polish National Championship series culminates this month in Dallas By James Jaillet Also at the show, Overdrive will be crowning its Most Beautiful winner, Emily Weymouth (see page 40), and naming its Trucker Talent Search winner (see page 52). The show also will feature concerts, giveaways, free truck parking, educational seminars for owner-operators and the annual Overdrive's Partners in Business seminar. Visit gatsonline.com to learn more about the show and to register. OThEr GATS hAPPEninGS Doubling up | Small fleet owner Bill rethwisch earned Best of Show honors in two Pride & Polish shows in the 2014 series – with different trucks. his trucks will be squaring off against one another in the Working Combo category. The orange and white "Dreamsicle" won the Pride & Polish national Championship in the Working Combo category in 2013 and qualified to compete again this year by winning Best of Show in the PDi show last november. The green "Blood, Sweat, and Gass" won Best of Show at the 75 Chrome Shop show in April. Dreamsicle is a 2012 Peterbilt 389 pulling a Polar tanker, and Gass is a 2013 Pete 389 and Polar tanker.