10-4 Magazine / October 2026 27 For many truckers, no matter their age, the older equipment still holds a special place in their heart, and young Shawn Hoover (31) of Leola, PA is most definitely one of those guys who still likes to kick it old school. The super cool 1978 Peterbilt 352 pictured here has seen quite a change of scenery over the last few years. It bounced around from state to state until finally ending up with Shawn in Pennsylvania, and he couldn’t be happier about it. Wanting to experience more than the farm life he grew up in, Shawn first got into trucking in 2013 when he began driving tri-axle tankers for a local outfit near him in Lititz, PA. A few years later, he moved on to pulling reefers for New Holland Transport for a few years, serving the Northeast. In 2020, Shawn started running for the Millers, running reefers from PA to Detroit and Chicago, up until 2023. In 2023, Shawn came off the road to run the family farm back home. When Shawn came home, he purchased his first Peterbilt – a 1971 Peterbilt 359 Little Window. As Shawn put it, “The truck is still a project and definitely not road worthy yet!” In 2024, Shawn and his brother Clint started a partnership and named it Rollin’ H Transfer, LLC. Their first truck for the company was a 2000 Peterbilt 379 which still runs for them daily. Clint runs the 379 all over the lower 48 states and usually yanks a step deck. Learning the ropes and running their own trucking company under their own authority has been an experience in and of itself. One such lesson was a blown turbo replacement in Arizona to the tune of $14,000 – ouch! In addition to trucking, Shawn still runs the family farm and also works with his father and their other commercial business. Trucking is more or less in Shawn’s blood, and he said, “It’s hard to explain unless you know the deal.” Through the years, Shawn has gravitated more toward the old iron, which explains his taking to the cabover. The truck is a 1978 Peterbilt 352 powered by a CAT 425 C-Model, which sends power to the 3.25 rears via an Eaton 13-speed. The wheelbase of the truck is 220” and, to me, it looks just right. The rear was a cutoff that was done just before Shawn purchased the truck. Tracing the history of the COE back to the year 2000, when it was owned by a Yancey Brother’s Caterpillar mechanic, Shawn learned that the truck was sold shortly after to a gentleman named Raymond Zanders who was a friend of the CAT mechanic. In 2006, Raymond sold the truck to Bucky Green of Georgia. Mr. Green ran it for a few years until he sold it to Bryan Hoadley, based out of Florida. Bryan then sold it to Jeff Knott who took it to Nebraska for about a year. John Hood from South Carolina purchased the truck from Jeff and ran it up until 2018 when Kendall Nolt bought it from him. Kendall is well-known across the country for having some fine rides, alongside his brothers and their father, Virgil. Kendall did a few things to the truck, including adding the cutoff, and ran spud wagons and van trailers with it, up until September of 2024 when Shawn bought it from him. Shawn welcomes anyone to share more history related to the truck as he would love to know more about where it was previous to 2000. Adding some minor things to the truck since buying it, most notably the pinstriping, which was done by Sheldon Nolt of Horst Signs in Denver, PA. And the pinstriping is not over-the-top, it is just enough. Shawn runs regionally and picks up feeder cattle coming out of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina to bring them back to both the family farm In Lancaster and other farms in the area. The truck mostly stays hooked to the bull rack, but on occasion it will get hooked to another trailer. In the fall, Shawn will tote around a hopper bottom to haul corn for his father, and if local demand is there, he will grab tankers or dry vans, too. Noting his favorite things about trucking, Shawn mentioned his love for a summer sunset, southbound on I-81,
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