14 10-4 Magazine / June 2025 at rail sites, has a custom harvesting business that chops green feed and corn and bales hay, and has five trucks that haul commodities. We shot the pictures of David’s Kenworth in an alfalfa field next to the feed lot Slayde runs in Buckeye. Slayde is married to Lacey, and they have three young children. As mentioned before, Cayde runs the hay business, so, theoretically, David can pick and choose his loads and work as often as he wants to, but it doesn’t always work out that way. Cayde is married to Kaitlyn, and they have four young children. Family is very important to David, and it was a huge loss when he lost his mom three years ago. She was one day from her 91st birthday, and had she lived that one more day, she would have been 91 years old and had 91 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Wow, that’s a big family! While at the “Diesels in the Desert” show in Arizona back in March 2025, I had the privilege of snapping a cool photo that included 16 members of David’s family who were all at the truck show to support him – and to have some fun hanging out together. To avoid some of the intense heat Arizona has, once the temperature hits 112, David and Mia take an extended four or five week vacation to Hawaii each year. David has a Hawaiian “Hula Girl” stuck atop his dash to help remind him daily of the good times that await. They also have a nice RV and enjoy traveling whenever possible, and a cool sand car, fitted with an LS3 engine, they like to take out to the sand dunes. For many years, David was part of an off-road racing team (Flying Dutchman Racing) and was the navigator during races like the Baja 1000, the San Felipe 250, the Primm Mint 400, the Laughlin Desert Classic, and the Parker 400. These days, he no longer rides in the car, but instead runs the chase vehicle and helps pit the truck. We enjoyed spending the day with David and his family, at the feed lot in Buckeye, even though it was super windy. Standing out there in the alfalfa field, as the dust was flying, made things a little more difficult, but we pressed on and got the job done (like we always do). Sometimes we plan our lives and things just go according to our plans, but that has not been the case for David Viss. His life has been a string of awesome accidents that led him to where he is today – and he wouldn’t want it any other way! n
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