Proprietor-operator Alan Kitzhaber’s 4-million-mile 1995 Kenworth T600 received the scale-model therapy by Eston Hoffman to function trophy for his large Trucker of the Yr win. Keep tuned for a have a look at the ultimate product at MATS March 28.
How has owner-operator Alan Kitzhaber’s 4-million-mile 1995 Kenworth T600 held up this Winter? Effectively, because it turns into Spring formally Thursday, March 20, he is simply run previous the 4.1-million-mile mark, he notes. It is one other in a future of miles-milestones hit as Kitzhaber begins to wind down a trucking profession that spans most of 4 many years, the final 27 years spent as an owner-operator.
Working together with his authority immediately as Oak Ridge Transport and hauling within the distribution community of Menard’s, Kitzhaber’s nothing if not obsessed with sharing the trucking-business experience gleaned over his historical past with anybody prepared to listen to it. You may get an opportunity to fulfill him subsequent week on the Mid-America Trucking Present, going down March 27-29 on the conference heart in Louisville, Kentucky. Friday the twenty eighth at 2:30 p.m., we’ll speak with Kitzhaber and In a single day Drive Radio host Steve Sommers about Kitzhaber’s profession, alongside the best way presenting Kitzhaber a reasonably spectacular token of his well-deserved nod as Overdrive’s Trucker of the Yr.
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Once more for this 12 months, Eston Hoffman of Pennsylvania-headquartered Hoffman Mechanical Design custom-built the 1/forty second scale mannequin duplicate of the winner’s rig, Kitzhaber’s long-running T600, to function trophy for the win.
This is a shot of Hoffman’s handiwork within the early levels of the construct. See extra of Hoffman’s work on this story about final 12 months’s profitable owner-operator, Jay Hosty, likewise this one a couple of reward proprietor Steve Bixler’s son offered to him, a mannequin of his traditional „Girl in Purple“ cabover constructed by Hoffman.Eston Hoffman
The ultimate creation you will get a have a look at at Mid-America. Teased within the shot on the prime of this story, let’s simply say it appears just about similar to the actual factor, the extent of element Hoffman places into his work frankly superb…
…right down to the air tabs in the back of the sleeper physique…
Get a have a look at it your self and be a part of Trucker of the Yr program sponsors Bostrom Seating and Business Car Group in honoring Kitzhaber with Sommers and the In a single day Drive at 2:30 p.m. Friday at sales space No. 12036 within the North Wing, the place Sommers can be broadcasting hosted by the Sizzling Shot’s Secret firm.
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This is an enormous congrats to Alan Kitzhaber from all of us at Overdrive, with different rewards to return for him in a brand new seat from Bostrom and CVG, and all of the bragging rights for a 12 months’s reign on the prime as Trucker of the Yr.
We hope to see you there and elsewhere across the present.
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Overdrive’s 2025 Trucker of the Yr program, sponsored by Business Car Group and Bostrom Seating, acknowledges clear enterprise acumen and distinctive or time-honored recipes for achievement amongst owner-operators. Nominations are open for distinctive owner-operators, whether or not leased or unbiased. Nominate your enterprise or that of a fellow proprietor (as much as three vans) through this hyperlink for an opportunity to win a {custom} duplicate of your tractor and prizes and perks from Bostrom and CVG.
