I got my first Super Truck limited edition CAT scale collector card October 2010. These Super Truck Limited Edition cards–for those of you, like me, who didn’t already know–are slick full-color trading cards that feature working trucks. Really amazingly customized big rigs that stand out from the transportation most of us see cruising down the highway, hauling chickens or lumber, produce, automobiles, or production goods. These trucks really are, well, super.
Colin Stuart gave me my first card. It features his printing-press-hauling, prize-winning “Working Class,” a 1984 Peterbilt 359 with a 3406 CAT engine, Spicer 6×4 Twin transmission and enough customization to stop traffic. I had the honor of doing an appraisal of Fair Market Value in Continued Use for this truck, as well as 3 others in his fleet, for insurance purposes.
You can catch a couple of videos of Working Class on YouTube: Interior and Exterior . I watched them both before flying out of the Sacramento airport to Chicago to spend the day with Colin and his impressive fleet of trucks for a Fair Value Appraisal.
Colin Stuart happened into the trucking business. A press technician by training, he started Offset System Service as a printing press repair and re-building service and quickly expanded into hauling big printing presses from one spot to another, setting them up good-to-go at the final location, including Print Shows such as the one in Chicago.
Offset Systems Service Corp. provides turn-key relocation service for commercial printing presses including planning, preparation, electrical, rigging, foundation, disassembly, moving, reassembly installation, inspection and test runs. His work is comparable to the task of taking down, moving & setting up a sewing machine the size of a small house. These services require the very highest level of precision and attention to detail. The same kind of precision and attention to detail that his trucking fleet displays.
Colin’s Peterbilt 359 has won many and various show truck awards over the years, ranging from Best Interior Custom Sleeper at the 2010 Waupun Truck-N-Show to Wheel Jam 2009 1st place Best Interior and 1st place 1984-older Bobtail; his impressive custom murals (painted by Colin himself) often place in truck beauty contests, such as his first place at the 27th annual Shell Rotella (2009). Before appraising Working Class, I had no idea trucks even had beauty contests!
Like any guy who built his first vehicle out of 2 old Chevy trucks back in the 70s, I thought I knew a little something about trucks. Appraising Colin’s fleet, however, gave me a whole new appreciation for the world of working show trucks. Gotta tell you, now that I’ve appraised one and gotten my first collector card, I’m dreaming of collecting these trucks by the series, qualified USPAP truck appraisal by qualified USPAP truck appraisal! I know that each and every one of the fleet owners/operators of these amazing show trucks needs an up-to-date certified appraisal — if only to be sure that they are adequately covered in case of loss or damage for insurance purposes.
See you down the road!
Jack Young
NorCal Valuation