Troy’s Treasures: By Troy Miller Gary Disher of Commerce City, Colorado has specialized in moving heavy machinery and other oversize and overweight transports in Colorado and the Intermountain West region for over half a century. With a storied career that has seen moves ranging from complete bridge arch assemblies to fighter jets, every conceivable type of construction machinery, and about every open-deck transport imaginable, there is little his career, or his company, Hi-Plains Leasing, Inc, haven’t transported. Gary began trucking before most of us even began driving. Raised in trucking around his father, Walt Disher, he, along with his brothers, were no strangers to finding themselves piloting trucks for their father at ages that many of us have barely mastered Ramen noodles (although, in fairness, some never master Ramen). Like many drivers with careers spanning decades, having started early on climbing mountain grades with big displacement gassers and the overbuilt diesels of yesteryear, Gary has watched the industry change, update, progress and regress in ways that many younger drivers can’t conceive. And, also like many drivers with careers spanning decades, although no longer driving full-time, it’s very doubtful that Gary will ever go beyond being “Semi Retired” (it’s a pun, folks). While Gary might be walking back his daily trucking and operations duties, there’s no rule that says he can’t have a sweet ride for the days he does go out trucking, and do it a little off-beat, too. Originally gaining unique recognition for the show truck “Gone Postal” (that I featured in the June 2010 edition of 10-4 Magazine), it was a decked out, shined up, former USPS MR low-entry Mack cabover – a model of truck no one had conceived polishing up and painting. Following with his “Counterfeit” rig, a 1990 W900B Kenworth (featured in our February 2013 issue), Gary’s latest working rig is the 1989 Pete 378 seen here on these pages called “Creamsicle” for fairly obvious reasons. A Denver truck since the start, the short hood 378 on these pages began its life for Beghtol Trucking of Golden, Colorado. Always in close proximity to a longtime customer of Hi-Plains, Pascal Construction, also of Golden, the truck spent many years moving freight for Beghtol until it eventually found its way across the street to Pascal. Following some mechanical issues, the truck was parked and sat for years. During that time, it was relatively untouched. Always a bit of a wheeler-dealer, Gary eventually inquired about the truck to Toni Pascal, proprietress of Pascal Construction. After some inspections 52 10-4 Magazine / May 2026 A CREAMY TREAT
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