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Cool Equipment: Imagine pouring suds from this ultimate beer serving truck made by Isuzu

Isuzu is celebrating 35 years of selling trucks in America in 2019, and today the company rules the small but important low-cab forward market in America. Like all chassis cabs, these low-cab forward units can be upfitted for a zillion different vocations — from landscape dump bodies to hauling flatbeds to snowplow vehicles with giant salt spreaders in the back — but mostly they go into the pickup-and-delivery market. Recently I found a new favorite cab forward upfit that I hadn’t...

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Innovators: Estes Express Lines turns its attention to the rear of the rig to boost capacity, productivity

Hearing the ghost of disgraced Chicago White Sox outfielder “Shoeless” Joe Jackson hint, “If you build it, they will come,” fictional Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella defied all naysayers and constructed a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. Mike Palmer, vice president of fleet services for Estes Express Lines (CCJ Top 250, No. 12), must have been within earshot. Estes, with a fleet of more than 7,000 tractors and nearly 29,000 trailers, is among the nation’s largest less-than-truckload and truckload carriers....

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