10-4 Magazine October 2024

Truck Show Report: By Eric Hill morning of the show. The contributions they receive from this event go towards celebrating more children (angels) for the purpose of reaching out, supporting, and uniting families experiencing the loss of a child. In addition, they continue their mission to build more life-changing bereavement suites around the country for grieving families to use. Last year’s donation was $26,833, so the charity saw an almost 10% increase in donations from this year’s event. Guthrie and Jay of HD Equipment and C&J Trucking will be visiting the University of Iowa in Iowa City at the end of September to present a $62,000 check to the Stead Family Children’s Hospital. I also had the opportunity to speak with Kylie and Taylor from this great organization on Friday morning, as the 10-4 Magazine booth was right next to theirs. The Stead Family Children’s Hospital is a pediatric children’s hospital that has 190 inpatient pediatric beds. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric support to patients ranging The Dirty Business Truck Show in Grand Mound, IA in many ways is like other truck shows, but has one major distinction – it’s not a judged show with any awards or trophies. It was purposely designed this way to be a fun two-day celebration for the customers of HD Equipment and those hard working truckers and their families in the trucking industry. This show is typically held in June or July, and it was the 5th show I’ve had the pleasure of participating in. This year’s event took place the weekend of July 19-20, 2024, on the grounds of HD Equipment and C&J Trucking in Grand Mound, IA. This show is one I look forward to each summer, and I always leave with a great deal of satisfaction and a smile on my face, because there are so many clean rigs at Dirty Business! A total of 86 clean, customized and sharp trucks attended this year’s truck show. As I have witnessed in other shows this season, the quality of trucks continues to improve from year to year. Even though this is not a judged event, many owners and drivers spent all day Thursday and Friday diligently cleaning and detailing their trucks and trailers, as if it were a judged show. There were many outstanding trucks at this year’s show, and it was difficult for me to pick a favorite. My top five picks were a mint green Peterbilt, driven by Jeff Levesque at Jack Moss Trucking, C&J Trucking’s black cherry Peterbilt 389X with a flat top sleeper, Hoewing Trucking’s white 389 Peterbilt with contrasting black and purple stripes, Dylan McCrabb Trucking and his purple Peterbilt 389 with lots of chrome and stainless, and a white 389 Peterbilt with classic black and silver stripes owned by Walter Campbell Trucking. One of the many aspects I like about this show is there is a good mix of newer, classic, and older bobtail and combo trucks. One of the primary objectives of this show is to raise money for two important charities that HD Equipment and C&J Trucking give money to and support. Those two charities are the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital and No Foot Too Small Charities. A total of $90,000 was raised at this year’s truck show auction. A tremendous amount of sponsorship support came from the trucking industry, various vendors, and surrounding communities who helped sponsor, donate to, and participate in the auction. A total of 45 sponsors/vendors partnered with HD Equipment in this year’s Dirty Business Truck Show. A $28,000 check was presented to the No Foot Too Small charity back on August 13 at the local City Golf Classic. I spoke to Krista Porter, a representative from the NFTS organization, on Friday 32 10-4 Magazine / October 2024 CLEAN RIGS AT DIRTY BUSINESS