Custom Semi

Description

From the big picture to the fine detail of some of the most "wow-worthy" of customized semi trucks. From an author who has spent more than a quarter-century photographing and writing about tractor-trailers comes the best book yet about the custom semis that do so much of the nation's heavy hauling in consummate style. In chapters that range from solo drivers, families in trucking, and whole customized fleets to the finest nitty-gritty and cutting-edge elements of semi truck customization, this book offers a close-up look at spectacular examples of custom semis. Includes before-and-after photos of re-customized trucks; motifs in graphics and design - on themes as various as dragons, pirates, trains, and Harley-Davidson; and here are the details of wood, metal, lights, etching, and interiors that make a rig "wow-worthy." Her subjects, Bette S. Garber says, are the "creme de la creme" of working show trucks - spectacular owner-operator tractor-trailers that have been beautifully painted, colorfully striped, loaded with extra lights, and dazzled with metal trim. But "don't be fooled by their appearance," Garber cautions. "These trucks work hard every day pulling flatbeds, dry vans, refrigerated trailers, drop-decks, tankers of all kinds, even specialty trailers like bark haulers, auto carriers, and dump trucks, day after day, throughout all corners of America."

Bette S. Garber is the author of Custom Semi Trucks (ISBN 0-7603-1459-4) and lives in Thorndale, Pennsylvania.

"Trucking "April 2006 (circ. unavailable) "Fans of American Iron will love this one. Bette Garber writes with a passion for her subject and the people involved in the U.S. trucking industry." "RPM Magazine "May 2006 (circ.: 150,000 )"" "Bette gives her audience both top quality photos as well as top quality writing that transforms the images into living subjects to study. If you want more than just pictures of fancy trucks, if you want to see the soul of trucking, this is the one and only book you need in your library." "RPM Magazine "May 2006 (circ.: 150,000 )"""Bette gives her audience both top quality photos as well as top quality writing that transforms the images into living subjects to study. If you want more than just pictures of fancy trucks, if you want to see the soul of trucking, this is the one and only book you need in your library." "Newport""'s roadster", December 2005 (circ. unavailable)"Photographer captures the heart of show trucks - and their owners." "Trucking "April 2006 (circ. unavailable)"Fans of American Iron will love this one. Bette Garber writes with a passion for her subject and the people involved in the U.S. trucking industry." "Newport""'s roadster," December 2005 (circ. unavailable)"Photographer captures the heart of show trucks - and their owners." RPM Magazine May 2006 (circ.: 150,000 )"Bette gives her audience both top quality photos as well as top quality writing that transforms the images into living subjects to study. If you want more than just pictures of fancy trucks, if you want to see the soul of trucking, this is the one and only book you need in your library." Trucking April 2006 (circ. unavailable)"Fans of American Iron will love this one. Bette Garber writes with a passion for her subject and the people involved in the U.S. trucking industry." Newport's roadster, December 2005 (circ. unavailable)"Photographer captures the heart of show trucks - and their owners."