10-4 Magazine December 2022

10-4 Magazine / December 2022 21 cover trucker Jeff Zonneveld (September 2010), who brought out his dark green 1976 Pete 359 dry van truck and trailer. The Van Dyke family was in fine form, like they have done at this event for over 25 years, since the show was in just one field, and had maybe 50 trucks. We continued to cruise around, like always, in awe, checking out Kris Pickle and his cool group of at least four of his JK Pickle Trucking rigs, my buddy Willy Shapeley and his classically cool red 359 Pete with a full load of wood, and Bryan Semingson of Semi Inc. and his clean lineup of red and white trucks. We also ran into our friends Clyde and Melody Green, who always treat me and my son like their own, and this time was no different. Lincoln jumped up into Clyde’s cab and, with a big smile on his face, Clyde let me take a little rip around the lot in their truck with just the two of us. A priceless memory. There were so many cool rides at this show it would be very hard to mention them all – but I’ll mention one more – one of the best lowbedders in the PNW, Derek Louvring, and his clean black Kenworth T800, loaded to the gills with a massive Caterpillar D11T crawler dozer. With 360 total trucks in attendance, they beat their past record by three trucks! Wow!! And the light show on Friday night, man, it was epic!!! While riding around we came across one of the best industrial photographers in the land – Colby Williams and his team, Travis Gallatin and Cody Reeder – and I had to admit, “Guys, you are all way better at photography than me, so can we use some of your images?” Colby and crew, thank you for providing many of the great photos for this report. Packed with campers and trucks, this year’s Brooks Truck Show was one