One-truck unbiased Scott Huber has been behind the wheel because the flip of the century, beginning out in a dump truck he purchased from his grandfather, hauling beneath his personal authority as S and V Trucking out and in of his father’s rock quarry operation in Kansas. Three or 4 years later, he purchased a 1994 Peterbilt and began pulling an finish dump trailer in the identical operation by 2008, when Huber adopted his brother to an area grain facility, the place he spent eight years.
In 2016, he branched out once more, this time into belt and strolling flooring trailers, transferring feed and different commodities to native dairy farms, getting as much as 9 vehicles as of a pair years in the past. Right this moment, although, S and V is again to simply his personal rig on the highway.
“I’ve really made more cash with the one truck than I made with 9,” he mentioned.
Whereas his day by day employee right this moment is his 2017 Peterbilt 389, paired with a a 2019 Wilkens trailer, he additionally not too long ago ran a 2006 379. He purchased the 379 in 2021 and put a full 12 months into rebuilding it. It is a magnificence, for sure, acknowledged by Overdrive readers, too. They voted the 2006 379 because the winner within the 2024 Pleasure & Polish Working Bobtail class.
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‚May as nicely go all in.‘ –Proprietor-op Scott Huber
When he purchased the 379 three years in the past, it was in fairly tough form, as proven on this image from round that point.
Huber’s preliminary plan when he picked up the 379 was simply to get the truck in respectable order and put it straight to work. But he quickly found it wanted a brand new motor. “The motor was shot, and it was all rusted,“ he mentioned. „So I ended up placing a crate motor in it,“ a Cat C15 Acert, „after which as soon as I had that, I used to be already $65,000 deep into it.“
That far down into it, he thought, „Properly, would possibly as nicely go all in. And that’s the way it grew to become what it’s right this moment.”
Huber knew he wished to swap out the 63-inch sleeper for a 48-inch stand-up — a glance he’s at all times appreciated on Peterbilts. He tracked down a 48-inch sleeper, gutted it together with the inside of the cab of the truck, then stretched the body and “simply began engaged on it little by little,” he mentioned.
The hood when he purchased the truck was cracking throughout the highest, so he changed it, including Talladega Fiberglass entrance fenders and a carry bumper — loads of physique work in any other case, too.
The truck is proven right here in Huber’s store within the midst of his rebuild.
Triple S Diesel in Cimarron, Kansas, did the inside work for him, putting in ostrich pores and skin seats and a brand new flooring. Triple S additionally “did many of the work ending it out,” Huber mentioned. “They put the pipes on it for me — seven-inch straight pipes — and all that good stuff.”
He added double hump rear fenders, greater than 200 Twin Revolution lights and an audio system that might make nearly any audiophile jealous.
“I’ve been into audio techniques since I used to be 18, and I figured if I’m gonna do it, I would as nicely do it large,“ he mentioned. „I put one of the best of one of the best in there.“ The system pushes 10,000 watts with six subwoofers. “It’s loud; you positively hear it,” Huber added. “I’m stunned that it hasn’t popped the rivets off the sleeper but.”
A portion of the 200-plus lights Huber’s added to the rig might be seen right here.
So far as the look of the truck, the owner-operator constructed it precisely the means he wished it — no plan for any notable adjustments within the close to future. “If I need a new truck, I’ll simply put a brand new paint job on it,” he mentioned. Mechanically, although, he is eyeing a 13-speed swap for the 10-speed transmission that it is in it now.
Scott Huber’s at all times appreciated purple on a truck, so he added the purple stripe. When he took it additional with an orange accent to the stripe, „it simply popped off,“ he mentioned.
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