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Put the Fun in Functional

Look good and boost your bottom line

Now more than ever, it’s important to get the most bang for your buck when you purchase parts and accessories for your truck. Here are a few items to enhance your rig that are handy, practical/functional, and look good too! Hood wing or aero style bug shields. There are a lot of manufacturers and styles of bug deflectors, from the small stainless wing style, the smoked acrylic style, to the polished stainless steel aero type. These deflectors really cut down on the bugs that cover your …

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Scent of a Dude

Candles that only a man could love

Mike Chorazak’s kitchen is overflowing with candles, but not the rosy or cinnamon spice variety. His candles emit the smells of new car, pigskin and campfire — cool, manly aromas he packages under his own roof in Portland, Ore. “I wanted to take an established product and make it more fun,” Chorazak explains. “One morning I passed a home decorating store. It was just one of those perfect serendipitous moments and boom, an idea was born: Why don’t they make c…

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TA Tech Is Tops Twice

Butch Estrada, who gets trucks in shape for the road at the Lake Station, Ind. TA shop, won top honors in two categories – Brakes and Fasteners — at this year’s SuperTech competition. Put together by the Technology and Maintenance Council, the annual contest brings together the country’s top shop technicians. It includes a written test and hands-on work in 14 different stations that test contestants’ diagnostic and problem-solving skills.This year TA sent 12 techs…

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