La Crosse, Wisconsin-based Rob Hallahan repeated as a Pride & Polish champ in 2022 with his
Rob Hallahan’s “Joke’s on You” 2022 Peterbilt 389 is no stranger to Overdrive’s Pride & Polish, or show truck competition in general.
In 2021, the truck picked up the first-place prize in the Limited Mileage category of the virtual Pride & Polish competition, along with a second-place in Interior.
In the 2022 competition, with the truck doing a good bit more work, it was chosen by Overdrive readers as the winner in the Working Combo, 2012 & Newer category with the 2022 Great Dane dry van tastefully adorned with the small fleet owner's Hallahan Transport insignia in colors matching the tractor's. It also earned a third-place nod in Interior.
The truck was something of a part-time worker in 2022, running about 65,000 miles in between truck shows hooked to a stainless steel spread-axle van. As reported in 2021, however, Hallahan “built the truck to show,” and that’s primarily what it will do in 2023.
After picking up a first-place trophy for Working Truck -- Limited Mileage at the 2022 Shell Rotella SuperRigs in Branson, Missouri, the driver Hallahan had in “Joke’s on You” was involved in an accident with the truck.
After that, Hallahan said his wife, Karen, told him to take a new approach to insurance for the rig and “just park it” as policy. He said he’s still going to keep his Hallahan Transport trucks in show-quality condition, but “I’m not going to dump a lot of money” into them to make them show trucks like he has with “Joke’s on You.”
