Trevor Hardwick Named His Truck Chapter 11 DCP by First Gear Big Rigs Series Product Review

DCP did a great job replicating Trevor Hardwick’s Chapter 11 in their Big Rigs Series of 64th scale semis. Chapter 11 is a 2017 Kenworth W900L Model customized with a vintage Aerodyne sleeper pulling a stainless steel reefer trailer out of Stanwood Washington. His company is Hardwick Motor Freight and I talk about the real one plus review the model.
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Key Moments in this Episode:
0:00 Today’s Episode is About a Man and His Truck
0:19 Trevor Hardwick Wants to Keep the Trucking Tradition Alive
1:07 Smokey Hardwick Starts Truck Driving Without a License
1:47 Trevor Started Hauling Milk
3:25 Trevor Sets Out on His Own with a Cabover
5:07 Trevor Builds Chapter 11
8:23 1:64th Scale Kenworth W900L with Reefer Trailer “Hardwick Motor Freight” by DCP Product Review
16:16 What to do Next

Trevor Hardwick of Stanwood, WA. wants to keep those “glory days” of trucking alive – the 1970s and 1980s to be exact. In those days, trucks were made of metal and truckers were the real deal. Many drivers were taught by their dad, who lived and breathed the trucking lifestyle. Trevor and much of his retro attitude toward that lifestyle is reflected in his classically-influenced three-tone green Kenworth.

Trevor’s grandfather was a trucker, which influenced his dad, Michael (AKA Smokey) Hardwick, to become a trucker. At 16 years old, Trevor’s dad grew a beard to look older and convinced an owner operator with Mayflower to let him join him in the truck to help drive and load. At the time, he didn’t even have a license! Smokey spent a year on the road with this guy, hauling household goods and learning the ropes in an International Transtar II cabover. Smokey was the epitome of a typical “chicken truck” driver from the 1970s, a rough and tough biker type, and Trevor’s hero!

Once he got his license, Trevor started delivering bottled milk for a local farm in a bobtail truck to nearby stores. After a few months of that, he went trucking with his dad.

Trevor started customizing trucks in a big way when he ordered a new Kenworth tractor. Wanting a classically styled Kenworth with an older Aerodyne sleeper, Trevor went to Cory Henry at Kenworth Northwest in Yakima, WA to order it. Trevor knew exactly what he wanted, because he had already dreamed-up the paint scheme and many of the details and rescued a 1994 Aerodyne sleeper “out of the weeds” near a friend’s barn, which was ready to go.

The 2017 Kenworth W900L was ordered with a small flattop sleeper, a 295-inch wheelbase, a 525 Cummins ISX with an 18-speed and 3.37 rear gears. It was also ordered with the signature three-color green paint scheme, which Trevor created based on an old KW scheme they no longer offered. This paint scheme featuring Dark Green Effect, Light Green Effect and Green Metallic Effect. All these colors are similar, as Trevor did not want the stripes to be too loud or obnoxious. When it was all said and done, Kenworth liked the scheme so much they now offer it to their customers – and it’s called the Hardwick Paint Scheme!

When Trevor was all done with the truck, like truckers of the past, he gave the old girl a name. He called her “Chapter 11” cause she almost bankrupted him.

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