‘Second look’ at premium Kenworth Icon 900, following Fleener Bros. custom treatment

If this custom Kenworth Icon 900 looks familiar, perhaps you were at the Great American Trucking Show, where it made its Overdrive‘s Pride & Polish debut.

If not, you might be one of the thousands who saw my prior “First look” vid of the Kenworth Icon 900 when the model made a big splash at the Mid-American Trucking Show earlier this year.

Kyle Cousins (pictured, middle), part owner and operator of the 30-truck Fleenor Bros. hazmat fleet out of Carthage, Mo., with team members Sid Calangelo (left); Counsins’ wife, Sara with son Kolton; and head shop man Kenny Coffey, pulled in first in the “new” category in the GATS Pride & Polish, and we talked immediately off the awards show on Saturday. In that talk, I learned the truck was in fact the very same unit that had been out on the show floor at MATS, Cousins and co. taking delivery then from a dealer a month or two later out of Glasgow, Ky., and giving it a custom skin with partners from Thunder Graphics (the stripe treatment mimics the Icon factory stripe pattern) to a bevy of other suppliers.

Readers, keep tuned for a ‘best of the best’ Pride & Polish 25th anniversary shootout competition among all of our National Champion rigs over the last half-decade. Voting will open early next week.

A lot about it has changed, as you’ll see in the “second look” vid below. They’ve done a bang-up job on it, for sure, and you can fully expect to see more of it in 2016 Pride & Polish competition, says Cousins.

Make a comparison look in the “first look” vid that follows the update version below, itself followed by a gallery of images from my shoot with the rig this past Saturday.

And stay tuned over the next year, Cousins adds. There’s a lot more in store.

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