Western Maryland Truck Show

Steve Kalwaytis made the trek to the 2011 Western Maryland Truck Show, held August 27-29th at Grantsville Town Park in Grantsville Maryland.

April 2012 Editorial

The April 2012 online issue of LargeCarMag.com is now available. We hope you are enjoying the new layout!

Billy Baker

Unfortunately we never got information on Billy Bakers incredible 1949 Kenworth Bull nose you see here. But this truck is just too cool not to share with the LCM community.

Riding Around April 2012

As always the April issue’s riding around is all the largecars found surrounding the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center at the Mid America Trucking Show as well as the trucks parked at the papa johns stadium parking lot.

Wayne Baker

Back in the June 2009 print issue we featured Wayne Baker’s 2002 Peterbilt 379. Wayne purchased that truck from Jeff England of Pride Transport. Over the years that Wayne owned it Wayne made lots of changes to make it his own.

2012 Mid America Trucking Show

This years Mid America Trucking Show was held March 22-24th. As we pulled in Tuesday night, before checking into the hotel we HAD to check out the trucks that were in the prep lot where we ran into lots of friends and what was supposed to be a quick drive through the prep lot turned into a lengthy stop catching up with old friends. Once we got set up (with the help of Larry Olsen, thanks Larry!) we noticed the crowds seemed to be way up this year.

April 2012 Truckin’ Tattoo

On a trip to California, While waiting to get washed at Calivas Truckwash “Vince” of San Pedro, California. Came over to admire the truck I was in. While chatting, Vince mentioned the he had a trucking tattoo.

April 2012 Flashback

In this month’s flashback I thought I would post some of the GMC Generals I took pictures of in the 80’s.

Bill Warner Fleet

Bill Warner Jr. Grain of Circleville West Virginia has been business for the last 25 years. We first met Bill the very weekend we launched LargeCarMag.com on the internet. It was the Mid America truck show in Louisville Kentucky in 2001 and Bill was there with a 359 called “Stage Coach Express”, that particular truck was at the very first truck show I ever attended (the same show and truck are in the flashback show coverage in this issue).

Reader’s Rides May 2012

Michael Meek of Meek Trucking, Fort Shaw Montana, sent us these pictures of his three trucks. Michael uses the 1987 Peterbilt 359 to pull a flatbed between Washington and Iowa.

Riding Around May 2012

I caught this Large 379 off exit 104 of I-95. The owner, “shoes”, was super cool and a big fan of LCM.

Bill Warner Jr

When we arrived at the Shell Super Rigs 2011 show in Kenly, North Carolina, one of the first trucks we saw was the 1989 Ford LTL 9000 you see here. Needless to say, we were blown away! Upon closer inspection, we discovered the truck belongs to Bill Warner Jr. of Circleville, West Virginia, someone we know very well.