J.R. Collins’ “Buckeye Bulldog” made its first appearnce in many years at the Warren County Fair in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania on Friday evening and took home the huge trophy with a very narrow victory over the current top truck in the Big Rigs Pulling Series – “Silver Bullet I”.  Collins’ beautiful Mack is a five-time NTPA Super Semi Champion and the current point leader with the NTPA Super Semis for 2008.

Dale Francis drove Dick Bonner’s “Killer” to a resounding victory over a field of ten Big Rigs at the Trumbull County Fair in Cortland, Ohio on Friday evening, July 11th.  “Killer” is a Mack SuperLiner with a specially built E-9 Mack engine now equipped with four turbo-chargers.  Dick Bonner had a serious fall from a trailer in late June and fractured his collar bone.  That has required Dale Francis, the engine-builder and crew chief, to handle the driving duties at the past couple of events.  The new four-charger set-up worked flawlessly as “Killer” won by nearly twelve feet in a pull-off with four other Big Rigs.