Once the Peterbilt’s second build was complete, and just in time I might add, Jason took it to Rod’s 2025 truck show in Chandler, AZ. The day after that show is when we took it out in the desert to capture the pictures for this feature. We would like to thank Narcie Soares (72) and his wife Patty, who had just celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary, for spending the day with us out in the desert for the photo shoot. Narcie has been driving his entire life (about 5.5 million miles) and has been a driver for Jason for the past 17 years. Narcie’s daily driver is a red 2015 Peterbilt 389 with dark red stripes, which he uses to haul hay, that currently has about 900K miles on it. But, when it comes time for a show, Narcie is the one who gets to drive this stellar show truck – and his next event is scheduled to 10-4 Magazine / April 2025 13 be our Truckin’ For Kids charity show and drags this coming May 3-4, 2025, in Bakersfield, CA. We are excited to have this truck there, along with a few other sharp DanDee Dairy rides. After the truck show and our photo shoot, Jason sent the truck back to Rod’s shop for a few more final touches. The engine was painted green and had some polished tubing, but it wasn’t a show quality engine compartment, so Rod is currently in the process of pulling the motor, painting it purple, and having a bunch of pieces chrome plated. They also decided they didn’t like the color of the LED lights (too white), so Rod is changing out every bulb to new JML bulbs, which are a more amber color, the 18” front bumper is being replaced with a 16” bumper, so the truck can sit even lower, and the door jams are being painted to match the exterior, including the stripes. I tried counting all the lights and came up with a total of 275 (not counting the under-glow lighting), but I’m sure I missed a bunch. Although Jason’s story sounds like a trucking fairytale, there have been some “bumps” along the way. On March 12, 2018, an EF-2 tornado blew through Dexter, NM and went straight across his dairy. Coming through at night, Jason was there to witness it all, but being a guy from California, he didn’t know what to do or which way to go, so he backed his pickup inside a silage bunker, and hoped for the best. The tornado varied from 150 to 350 yards wide and traveled a total of 15 miles, clocking wind speeds up to 135 mph, and ended up
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