“Breaking the Internet” is the latest catchphrase that gets overused often when playfully suggesting a posted video on social media that received an overwhelming amount of views. It might just be a coincidence, but right after Justin Zeigler set the world record with 3,336 horsepower and 3,642 ft/lbs. of torque on the dyno at the Ultimate Callout Challenge back in June, I couldn’t get my post on Facebook to go out.

A 3,000hp truck?! Are you kidding me?! This was huge news and I was trying like crazy to share a glimpse of the pure violence his dyno pull made in a video I captured, but unfortunately I was having zero luck. After multiple attempts to refresh my screen to see if what I had attempted to post went through, I simply gave up. Besides breaking the horsepower record, it appears Zeigler may have broken the Internet that night too.

It’s not easy defending a championship. When you’re number one on the podium it puts a big target on your back and you know all of your competitors are working overtime to try and knock you off. Justin Zeigler, the 2021 Ultimate Callout Challenge champion, found out just how hard it is to repeat that winning performance as records were broken at the 2022 event and competition reached new extremes. Despite 10 of the 15 trucks recording eighth-mile times of five seconds or less and seven trucks posting 2,300hp or higher on the dyno, Team Zeigler successfully defended its title.

The 2022 UCC in Indianapolis, Ind., did not disappoint as the diesel truck industry came together once again at the legendary Lucas Oil Raceway. The one-of-a-kind event brings out the best-of-the-best in the diesel industry as trucks compete on the biggest stage in a drag race competition, dyno run, as well as a sled pull – some even with the same truck – to determine a champion and ultimate bragging rights. In prior UCC competitions the same truck needed to run in all three events but a format change this year allowed teams to enter different trucks to increase the number of competitors.

Who doesn’t love dreams? Dreams fueled human exploration of the world. Dreams put man on the moon. Literal dreams gave us the hit sensation Inception. Did you understand that movie? Yeah, me neither. 

No matter how big or small it might seem, a dream is a non-comparable concept. To compare something you have to measure it, but you can’t measure that which brings personal happiness in life. Pure happiness is equal, no matter the source. 

Netanya Shreiner’s dream is her 2008 Dodge RAM 2500 long bed diesel. Some might note that it doesn’t have all the gadgets that some builds do, but it’s her dream, which makes it equal to any truck that has all the upgrades and modifications you can think of. Just listen to Netanya’s own words.

We’ll admit it: we love tires.

Tires can make or break the cosmetic aspect of a truck build. And with the variety of weather and road conditions we face over 12 months, tires are critical.

In our backyard of eastern Idaho, we can see temps in the high 90s, snow, ice, rain, dirt, gravel, mud and sand. And that’s just in June.

Our test truck, a 2020 Ford F350 Power Stroke crew cab (@f350soup on Instagram), racks up about 26,000 miles a year. Half of that is winter driving, and most of that winter driving includes towing a 12,000-pound gooseneck snowmobile trailer. Our summer months include a lot of city and highway, with a considerable number of dirt roads as we search out all those places that lack other people.