"WILL WORK FOR CHROME"
This month’s Readers And Their Rigs comes to us from Owner Operator Robin McCaslin (38) of Shafter, California. Robin has only been trucking for five years, but has already made a name for himself, hauling hay from El Centro to Tulare with a beautiful 1999 Pete 379 pulling a set of 1999 Utility flatbeds. Purchased as a new glider kit from a local Peterbilt dealer, Robin added a 470 Detroit Diesel engine, a 13-speed transmission and 3.21 rear-end. The truck is painted Mocha Pearl with black fenders, and features pink lettering and pinstripes. The trailers are painted Black Cherry - a color Robin eventually wants to apply to his frame rails and fenders. Across the back of his trailer reads Robin’s motto, “Will work for chrome!” The clean Pete also sports a short 36-inch sleeper which gives Robin a place to nap while on the road. Inside, the rig has a booming stereo system, installed by The Design Group in Bakersfield that includes three 12-inch woofers. Much of the chrome and accessories on this truck came from The Chrome Shop in Arvin, another one of Robin’s sponsors. He also had his windows tinted dark by Krazy Kustomz in Bakersfield. In fact, Robin sometimes has them tint his front windshield for some of the shows he attends (of course he peels it off after the show ends, before he drives home). Robin’s family was involved in sugar beet farming, so Robin grew up around farms and trucks. For years, he drove a sugar beet harvesting machine and loaded trucks out in the fields. That’s where he met guys like Fred Rivera and Tony Martinez, and fell in love with their trucks. Now that he has made the switch to trucking, he never wants to go back. More than anything, Robin loves going to the local California truck shows and taking his 11-year old son Mason with him. |
