Custom Rigs - Fall 2009
underside of the hood, where an underwater panorama of a hot-looking mermaid, a giant shark, a Kenworth lying on the ocean bottom, a sinking Freightliner and the two owners, Gary and Jeff Burningham, looking on through portholes. "The scene portrays the sink-or-swim mentality of the trucking industry of late," Rigby says. Burningham's custom rig has a mere 8,000 miles on the odometer. But that may change. With business slow, instead of buying new equipment they may put "Haulin Ash" to work pulling a set of newer trailers. "The truck was built so it can go on the road," Rigby says. "If that happens, I hope I can dispatch from the driver seat, because nothing is better than driving something like this down the road and seeing the people's reaction and approval." Besides truck beauty shows and work, Haulin' Ash has another important duty: motivational assemblies at elementary schools around the Salt Lake City and Utah county areas. Burningham drivers challenge school kids to read more pages in books than they drive miles on the road during the school year. So far the race between the two has been close. We'll have to wait and see whether the kids can keep up if she hits the road in earnest.
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