somebody PLEASE tell the darn truckers to quit chasing Santa's reindeer! WTH?!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/legal-loophole-undermining-species-at-risk-act-9.7368066

photo by Rock Arsenault  https://www.flickr.com/photos/arsenault/with/55481466829

Bryndi in Idaho, autobody college student had an 80 Firebird, that the previous owner wanted back, BAD... his grandma had bought it new, and after he sold it and lost track of it, he wanted it back real bad, right at the same time, she fell in love with this 70 Firebird, and traded up, and is building it for autocross

the tire she sits on was originally on the car when she got it, and she's hauled that old wheel around for many years, to use it as a chair. I like that. The car's last owner died at 91, and there is NO info on him or the car (last registered in 1981)  previous to when she bought it, but when getting the title figured out, she found out that a bank had a lien on it, and THEY could find no record of that. Typical paperwork nonsense where they didn't correct the records

The 57 Kenworth is her TOW RIG... don't you LOVE that!!!?

So, she does body work for a living, listens to 80s rock in the shop, races a Camaro in autocross, and is a trucker... and she once waved at a 68 Camaro, and 3 years later, that guy finally proposed to her. Smart guy.

https://www.instagram.com/firebird_bryndi

you will probably get a kick out of her other videos, https://www.youtube.com/@Firebird_Bryndi about her Kenworth and 72 F100

Yes, there have been a lot of posts lately about the Wood Lite headlights, and no, I'm not trying to collect the whole set, but, I couldn't pass on these (Thank you Robert M!)(Thank you Bob!)

Robert M knew that this "Official Car of the 99" is photographed at because it's the Elks Lodge # 99, in Los Angeles Ca. What was the Elks Lodge is now the Park Plaza Hotel  

At the time, the Elks membership numbered thousands and included L.A.'s wealthy and powerful. The building contained 169 hotel rooms but was mainly designed for the Elk's activities and events, with lavish interiors, including an impressive spacious foyer, a huge ballroom that could be used as an auditorium, numerous dining rooms, a gymnasium, pool, and a bowling alley.

Designed as a memorial to World War I soldiers, the exterior features stylized Assyrian friezes, sculpted figures in military uniform, and massive cast stone warrior angels guarding the plinth and tower at every corner. 

The lavish interior features an arched ceiling painted by famed muralist Anthony Heinsbergen, who purposely undercut the competition bidding for the job and toiled on his back while painting, like Michelangelo. 

Heinsbergen later claimed that he rarely bothered with self-promotion again. 

By the 1960s, following decades of declining membership and substantial losses at its Los Angeles lodge, the Elks could no longer maintain the building. It fell into general disrepair, and the Elks put it up for auction in 1966.

There have been dozens of movies and music videos, and concerts... you can read about the riots and punks etc at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Plaza_Hotel_(Los_Angeles)

and this... did it really NEED to call out the headlights with lettting and an arrow? Hmmm

But a Kenworth made for hauling cargo, that's a really strange vehicle to find Wood lites on

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/499/

Marshfield is now known as Coos Bay, OR. The Portland-Roseburg-Marshfield route would have involved 180 miles down the Willamette Valley through farm country along Hwy 99 (later superceded by I-5), then 80 miles over the Coast Range along windy narrow Hwy 42. A full day's drive, and in the winter, usually rainy weather.

Standing ovation for Stacy Batiste of Lafayette, Louisiana, a Marine Corps veteran and a mentor to younger drivers is the winner of this year’s Pilot truck stop Road Warrior contest, earning a custom KW W900 and a cash prize

Skip the first 14 minutes, to the story, or 19 minutes to the reveal

On October 21, Pilot and the Diesel Brothers surprised Batiste when he stopped at a Flying J in Baytown, Texas, while out on the road for work. Batiste was handed the keys to a custom Kenworth truck built by the Diesel Brothers as well as a $50,000 check. 

https://cdllife.com/2025/louisiana-trucker-with-5-1-million-safe-miles-wins-diesel-brothers-custom-truck-and-50k/

It's been a while since I've seen an old Kenworth

the Kenworth SuperTruck 2

a 1955 Kenworth needlenose found sitting in a field more than a quarter of a century ago, after it pulled a dump trailer with it for about 25 years, was bought for $1000, by the only guy who could restore it that nice

It "took a backhoe and a dozer to get it out" of the owner's field after Minteer's persuasion did its job, followed by "about a year and a half and a lot of love" to rebuild it. "The frame was flaking and breaking in half. The wheels were flaking. There was a tree growing up through it. The rodents had completely ate the inside. The engine was locked up.

Starting with the engine, Minteer pulled out the original 190-hp Cummins and a two-stick five and four transmission. He wanted to put a Cat motor in it, but it wouldn't fit in the original engine compartment, so he lengthened the hood by 10 inches to fit a 425-hp B-model motor and a 13-speed in it.

https://www.overdriveonline.com/custom-rigs/video/15676933/iimpressive-1955-kenworth-rebuild-by-trucks-second-owner

187 tons, 79.5 cords..... one Kenworth

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7255651264467327&set=gm.3794758110746932&idorvanity=2107225159500244

1933 1st Kenworth leaving Seattle headed to California. Interesting fuel tank.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160501195338241&set=gm.1306324763376892&idorvanity=709087063100668

Founded in 1923, Kenworth is acknowledging the century milestone by issuing 100th Anniversary Special Edition Trucks

https://cdllife.com/2023/video-check-out-kenworths-100th-anniversary-special-edition-trucks/

owner-operator Joe White bought this piece of trucking history, a 1960 Kenworth cabover, when he was 19 years old in 1970. He worked the truck for 30 years in total before retiring it. (skip the first 20 seconds)

The truck is on its fourth engine -- this one is a 1987-model 400 Cummins that White added in 1992.

 Joe White himself has had three different engines in it during the time he's owned it. "I get a little over a million miles, then I just get another motor," he said. It also has a two-stick 5 and 4 transmission. "I couldn't tell you how many transmissions I've had in it over the years," he noted. In all the years that I worked it, I pulled a flatbed. I hauled on the West Coast, lot of lumber, steel, pipe. Just about anything you can get on a flatbed, I would haul.

 I get a little over a million miles, then I just get another motor. Still got the five and the four transmissions. And the transmissions, I couldn't tell you how many transmissions I've had in it over the years. Still got the SQHD rear ends in it. All that stuff has been replaced many times, but none of it's been changed.

 I've done all my own maintenance. I overhaul the engines, the transmissions, rear ends, I done it all. You got to do a lot of maintenance if you want to keep them on the road for 40 years.

 I put three million on this. And I had another truck before this I probably put 150,000 on. I was only 18 years old when I bought that one. And then I went to work for another company, and I worked for them for a little over 20 years. And I put two and a half million miles on their trucks. So when I retired, I got over five and a half million miles.

https://www.overdriveonline.com/custom-rigs/video/15304434/1960-kenworth-cabover-still-rolling-after-millions-of-miles

Kenworth road train in depth info, like the fact that they haul up to 450,000 pounds... wow! Thanks Rob!

Vintage Farming Days at the Puget Sound Antique Tractor & Machinery Association 50th Anniversary, thanks Terry!

a Kenworth Bullnose! 

 

just cool photography of a steam tractor!

1943 Kenworth... a strange and simple looking fire truck

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lafdhs/8413139276/in/album-72157632605896774/   from a fire turcks of LAFD Flikr page  https://www.flickr.com/photos/lafdhs/albums/with/72157631788051360

thanks to Jason and Catherine! 

the biggest Kenworth I've seen

 https://www.facebook.com/TheDirtyOldTrucker/posts/2024885621021467

1955 Bullnose Kenworth rescued from a scrapyard in Wichita for only $300 in the 1970s, was reunited after 36 years, with the guy that saved it from the junkyard

 

https://www.hotcars.com/kenworth-semi-junkyard/

58 Kenworth spotted at I-90 travel stop.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Truckers/comments/nrr3ov/58_kenworth_spotted_at_i90_travel_stop/

There was no information with these photos

https://www.facebook.com/RWRRMuseum/posts/4653476418055733

a strange looking rig, it's a 1959 Telephone Booth Kenworth in the National Auto Museum

This 1959 Kenworth CBE commercial tractor was a marketing icon for Yellow Transit Freight Lines and symbolizes an impressive period in corporate history.

In 1955, Yellow Transit Freight Lines of Kansas City, Missouri, extensively researched the best equipment for their operation. The CBE, cab-beside-engine design, matched the specifications, including diesel power, ease of maintenance, engine compartment accessibility, lighter weight, improved visibility and driver comfort.

Two-hundred CBE Kenworth tractors were custom-engineered and built, and equipped with Cummins turbodiesel engines. Plus, 400 Freuhauf aluminum-bodied trailers replaced their entire fleet and increased shipping capacity by 30%. This total equipment purchase was one of the largest in the trucking industry at the time.

http://www.autoinformant.com/car_pages/1959-kenworth-tcf-521-12-cab-cbe/

good looking Kenworth

https://www.facebook.com/twistedtruckers/