Mike Jellison's two-stick, 350-inch-wheelbase 2001 Peterbilt 379

Owner-operator Mike Jellison, based in Seymour, Iowa (pop. 400, give or take), bought this rare beauty from a California-based original owner who'd put just a few miles on the odometer as of February 2018. Jellison hauled the rig home and went on to more than year's worth of work getting it ready to be the daily driver in his one-truck operation, hauling meat out of Midwest packing houses to the West Coast and loading produce back in a stainless-spread reefer. Jellison says the 379 was ordered originally as a daycab from the factory with this length of wheelbase, and the transmission, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Business at the factory was so slow "they'll build you anything you want," he says the original owner's Pete-affiliated, Texas-based friend told him. The sleeper was added later.

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