Custom cabover emerges as tribute to a driver's pride, from former Viking hauler

Owner-operators across the country probably remember the LTL doubles and triples hauler Viking Freight, before a buyout by FedEx folded the company under the FedEx Freight umbrella with another, American Freightways, in the early part of this century. A special treat for you today in this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast with Steve Sprenger, a commercial real estate broker for the last couple of decades following work in trucking with about a decade hauling for Viking from the mid-1980s. Sprenger's finally concluded what’s been a decade-and-then-some-long project in a full custom restoration of a 1983 single-drive-axle Kenworth cabover, a former Viking Freight truck he found in a yard in Northern California. Enlisting the initial help of NorCal Kenworth to make sure the rig was roadworthy for a trip back to his home area in Southern California those years ago, detail work commenced and took on a life of its own over time. The end result is a fitting tribute, he believes, to a company's drivers who took as much pride in what they did as him.