10-4 Magazine December 2022

10-4 Magazine / December 2022 13 envelope containing $3,000 that Dylan didn’t even bother to open and handed it immediately back to donate. He told me that of course he could use the money, but it was more important to help others. The first truck show Dylan attended without a truck was the Tharps Truck Show in Porterville, CA back in the early 2000s. But it was a long time until he actually brought a truck to a show, and that was in June of 2022, with this cabover, at the Grinchfest Car Show in South Jordan, UT. For him, the part he likes the most about truck shows is the classic work trucks still out on the road earning their keep. It is these owners, like Dylan and others, who are keeping the old school trucking lifestyle alive. Sound advice on someone looking to restore a truck that Dylan offered was to not be scared to tear into the truck. If the individual doesn’t know how to do something, you can always find someone who knows how to do it or can show you how to do it. You just need to put your head down and work hard to accomplish whatever it is you’d like to do. As I mentioned, hay is at the center of it all for Dylan and his family. Boyd tests the hay for different types of crude proteins and relative feed value. These tests are then sent off to labs to get the necessary results which helps the family determine the price of the hay. They have customers they’ve had for 15-20 years, and the hay is already purchased by their customers before Dylan’s family even buys it. Boyd and his partner work as a team, with Boyd setting up the hay transport while his partners put together the contracts. They set up a hay press in Fillmore, UT that takes a standard 3x4 or 4x4 bale and presses it into an 800-900-pound 3x3 bale that fits in a shipping container. These pressed bales are transported by rail out of Salt Lake City or the ports in California to be exported overseas. Special thanks from Dylan to his wife Brittney for supporting all his crazy ideas 100%. She is very loving, his very best friend, supportive, an all-around great person, and always understanding. Brittney is what grounds Dylan, and he says he is very lucky to have her. If you know Dylan and his goofy, fun-loving side, you know Brittney must be the perfect match to run with it all. Thanks to his brothers for always listening to him, helping him, and encouraging him to do better. Thanks to his parents for always supporting him, no matter what, and telling him there is nothing he can’t do, he just has to work hard to get it, and to his grandfathers (Gene and Cliff) and his Uncle Bo (Randy) for their unending support and wanting him to succeed. Today, Dylan and Brittney reside in Parowan, UT with their daughter Paityn that arrived on September 28th of this year. His dad, himself, and his brothers, Austin (27) and Devin (35), are all in trucking. Dylan recently started Cabbie Daddy Customs to do truck restoration projects influenced by the restoration of his truck. The first project he is working on is a Peterbilt 352 and a trailer for a dairy farmer out of California. In the fall of 2021, the 75 Chrome Shop posted a photo of a Freightliner cabover they had spotted on their lot. Those who know me, know that I am a Freightliner cabover fan. The unique look of the paint on this truck caught my attention and so began my search to find out whose truck it was. As luck would have it, I found out Dylan was the owner and contacted him on October 21, 2021, through Facebook. It was during one of his trips previously mentioned from Fallon to Naples when he had stopped at the chrome shop in Wildwood, FL. After several conversations, we scheduled to photograph the truck in August 2022 when I was already planning to visit Utah for the Great Salt Lake Truck Show. I have driven all over the country to photograph specific trucks for articles, so when Dylan mentioned Bryce Canyon and sent photos of his truck in various