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Ohio trucker wins custom rig

Owner-operator John Lacusky of Cortland, Ohio, won a 1998 International 9400 customized by the Chrome Shop Mafia during the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas.

The prize was the highlight of the Win Big With Custom Rigs sweepstakes, sponsored by Overdrive’s Custom Rigs. The tractor, customized by the Chrome Shop Mafia, contains a Reliabilt replacement engine, covered by a three-year, 300,000-mile warranty from Detroit Diesel.

Thousands of CDL holders filled out entry forms during the past three months for a chance to win the truck.

Lacusky wasn’t present when his form was pulled during Overdrive’s Pride & Polish awards ceremony in Dallas. But when Custom Rigs Publisher Brad Holthaus called him with the news, he said, “I don’t know what to say. I really won the truck?

When I get this truck, it’ll a big step up — a lot bigger and way more fancier than what I’m driving right now," he said. “All I was hoping for was maybe winning a couple steering tires…now I have eight more in the rear and a truck on top of it all!"

“The ‘Win Big’ sweepstakes was a great success,” says Holthaus. “Giving away a fully customized truck created a lot of buzz during the past three months and introduced a lot of new readers to our magazine. We’re looking to do more sweepstakes in the future.”

To see a video of the prize drawing by Alex Debogorski of the History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers,” visit www.CustomRigsMag.com .

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