We've had quite a few great Down On The Street Bonus Edition cars and pickups so far, but how about great big diesels? The kind that's inspired even more country tunes than Death Row? Fortunately, road-test guru Wes Siler and a certain Czech Corvette-drivin' Jonny Lieberman were down in the Carolinas and came across…

Meet Bob Anderson. He's got the second-largest custom-built semi in the country. Who's got the first-largest? No idea. Anyway, Bob's truck is the poop. It's got 43 lights in the bumper alone, suicide doors, and 8-inch exhaust stacks. The inside is basically a small RV — including a 30-inch flatscreen with satellite…

Australia in the '00s seems to us, watching from afar, like America in the 1970s. RWD cars, mad hoonage, that peaceful easy feelin', and truckin'. Mad truckin'. Retired semi-driver John Atkinson hitched his Mack prime mover up to 113 loaded trailers and towed the whole train 382 feet. The gross vehicle weight? 2.87…

We never saw the movie "I Am Sam," but we cannot look at this new Volvo/Mack hybrid-drive truck without thinking of Sean Penn as Sam, flying around a corner and slamming face first into the linoleum. We'd imagine this technology will mean better fuel economy for the largest and must suck-u-lent of vehicles, but damned…

Jim Whitecastle, of Alameda, CA, owns 112 fire engines, from horse-drawn carriages to late '70s models. Whitecastle, who also owns a couple of UH-1 helicopters, is a retired contruction worker who also sits on the board of the Alameda Naval Air Museum, started collecting the trucks back in 1997, and hasn't slowed down …