The group is putting on an event March 31 in Nashville featuring a talk by controversial former sheriff and current Arizona Senate candidate Joe Arpaio. A few spots down from the ICG booth in the Pavilion, the ELD or Me/Trucker Nation booth got creative front-porch treatment from Andrea Marks - the 85, she explains, is a reference to an upcoming Twitter campaign the group is planning around “the other 85 percent,” or what they say is the percentage of the industry made up of smaller carriers and owner-operators. Reed participated in the ICG seminar, where he outlined a few examples of how he uses the ProfitCalc app for results with the owner-operators he’s lately been working with personally in the Trucking for Profit program. If you missed the trucker-songwriter’s pre-MATS performance with Jan and Donnie Gullett of Muscle Shoals Music from Nashville for the latest Overdrive Radio podcast, catch it here.įormer owner-operator and current independent dispatcher (“load optimizer” in the ICG’s “Trucking for Profit” program’s parlance), Scott Reed is pictured here at the ICG booth in the Pavilion area beyond the West Wing. Couple more scenes from MATS I ran into Paul Marhoefer performing in the Pavilion across from the Truckers Final Mile booth.
The cowling and running boards of the rat are from a 1926 International pickup. As Wendy intimated previously, they’ll roll with the custom “Pupzilla” mini-rat rod built by Charlie Pacheco, eventually to sit on a rack over the tandems. New front bumper and rear T-bar, a custom-built headache rack, and new diamond-plate decking are among the adds/customizations - and, yes, you’re seeing that right, the rig doesn’t have a fifth wheel. A vinyl tank and side-box wrap, in addition to an added stripe, accentuate the paint, laid down in Minnesota in a process memorialized for eternity by Wendy Parker on her blog here in Overdrive last year. It’s gotten a nice makeover, though the paint work had been set down prior to the unit getting a 30-inch stretch to a 300-inch wheelbase, done by the crew at 4 State Trucks in Joplin, Mo. Above, see what’s probably the best shot I got of it, after a couple in early morning as George contemplated just what to do about the glacier crawling down the roof line. Since Wendy moved on from her blog here on Overdrive, the Parkers’ rig became the show vehicle for the Tough Tested line of products, and as such is parked prominently outside the North Wing of the Louisville Convention Center for MATS. It was an interesting first day at the Mid-America Trucking Show yesterday, not least among attractions the quite familiar/formerly “The Precious”-dubbed 2004 Freightliner Coronado of George and Wendy Parker.
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