10-4 Magazine / July 2025 21 nice enough to decorate the inside of the trailer and then surprise her with a fancy custom cake on Saturday night. Passing around glasses of champagne and sharing the cake with whoever happened to be there (or was just walking by), it was a lot of fun. Big thanks go out to Faren and Annette for making all that happen, and for making Shannon feel like the queen, she is. After the light show on Saturday night, we finally headed back to our room. We were exhausted after a long day, and that heat really took its toll on our energy levels. With approximately 100 trucks and about 10 motorcycles, pickups and hot rods, the turnout was not huge, but as mentioned before, we are sure the heat played a big role in that. Some trucks rolled in on Friday and then back out on Saturday, some rolled in on Saturday morning and then left on Saturday night, and others left before the awards were handed out on Sunday morning. That kind of sucked, but what can you do. One of the trucks that rolled in on Saturday morning and then out later that afternoon was a new cream and orange 2-axle Peterbilt owned by Bobby Vaz. The guys who built it brought it out and it ended up winning quite a few awards. As DJ Ray spun some great music atop Phil Miller’s flatbed, I spent a good part of Saturday taking pictures of the trucks and other vehicles, and honestly, it was more about quality than quantity. Some of the notable trucks that were turning heads included Rene’s red 359 Peterbilt and cool 1946 KW wrecker (one of my favorites at the show), Mike Mileham’s cream and orange Peterbilt 389 and flatbed, Miro “Junior” Dragich and his 2014 cream Peterbilt 389 with brown and blue stripes and an end dump, and Stan Silva’s stellar teal-colored 2024 Peterbilt 389X and matching heavy-haul trailer, with his custom teal Jeep loaded on the deck. Others included our May 2025 cover Ethan Rico and a couple of his trucks, Harold Silva and his blue cabover and conventional Peterbilts, along with their blue 1934 Ford Coupe, and Ryan Graham’s green and black 2022 Peterbilt 389 log truck, loaded with a nice stack of tall timber. However, the rig getting the most attention was a brown and yellow 1973 Peterbilt 362 cabover that Gus Hulstein had just purchased from Kevin Young in Texas. Gus had his dad go get the truck, and then on the way home, he stopped in California to pick up the Utility reefer trailer that this truck once pulled for a company called Vanier in its glory days. It was pretty cool, for sure, to see the two mated together again, but Gus has a ton of cool stuff, so it was not that surprising.
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