70 10-4 Magazine / December 2025 to all that supported this event and the cause it goes to including Bennett Family of Companies, Trucker’s Body Shop, MHC Kenworth, MAC Trailers, Purple Wave Auction, CDL Life, Time 2 Shine, Roadworks, Dickerson Custom Trucks, Lifetime Nut Covers, Semi Casual, Lightning Jack, Hogebuilt, Rockwood, Dominguez, Hot Rig, 12 Ga. Customs, Rowan Conceptz, PDI, AP Coatings, Loyer Lubricants, Trux Accessories, Dynaflex, and EchoPark Speedway. Saturday afternoon they held an auction for all the cool stuff that was donated and raised $22,400 for Wreaths Across America. Before Evan began announcing the winners, he got choked up a little as he thanked everyone for helping make his dream come true. Evan, by making your dream come true, you helped make many other’s dreams come true, too. Then it was time to crown the National Champions in the four classes. The winners were: Don Wood in the Limited Miles Combo class; CJ Nairn and Drew Discount in the Limited Miles Bobtail class; Rob Baesel in the Working Combo class; and Kenny Ziglar in the Working Bobtail class. Congratulations to everyone who participated! And thank you, God, for reflections in the pictures taken Saturday morning. It was quiet that morning as drivers wiped the rain off their trucks. During that time, I had struck up a conversation near Kenny and Heather Ziglar’s truck with a young man taking pictures. This young man, named Ethan Talamo, has a good eye when it comes to taking pictures, and he shared one of his “reflection shots” with me and I was beyond impressed. He was even willing to let me use it in this show report, so thank you for that, Ethan. I took a stroll around the show, which was spread out, and included a row of Jeeps, motorcycles, and some classic cars. In the pit garages there were some vendors and people passing through the open garage doors. On the other side of the garage area was the Bennett compound, with more Wash and Park trucks, and an RV set up where they had dinner for the drivers on Thursday night. You didn’t have to wonder who was on the Bennett team as the entire staff was wearing matching, patriotic baseball jerseys. This was a “team” that knocked it out of the park, hitting Grand Slams all weekend! We know that every show needs to have its sponsors and a big thank you making the clouds go around and not rain out the evening’s festivities. Now for the fun part – it was time for everyone who got invited to go out on the track and strut their stuff. Starting with two-time champion Don Wood, the master showed everyone else how it’s done when he did 116 mph around the track – with his show trailer in tow! I had the honor of riding around the track with Kenny and Heather Ziglar, and let me tell you, talk about intense concentration. I have been to a show or two over the years, but never anything as cool as this. Last year there were 78 trucks and this year that number nearly tripled to 210+ trucks. Evan’s goal was 200 for this year, and his goal for next year is to have 400 trucks at the show. There is room on the infield to hold 500-600 trucks, and even if they fill that space, they will have the option to utilize some of the outside parking. Looking back at this show, I said, “The real trophy is the friendships you make at events like this, because they make memories and don’t collect dust.” Every truck there was a winner, and I have no doubt memories were made that will last a lifetime. The stars (trucks) were certainly shining bright in Atlanta that weekend! n
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