Joust thee not

Chivalry isn’t dead—not as long as truckers proudly roll. No wonder Jerome Lobo, who drives for Prime Inc., opted to personalize his 2012 Freightliner Cascadia as a knight in truly shining armor.

Lobo dressed the truck nobly, in graphics depicting fanciful medieval times of castles and dragons, and thence dubbed his high-powered steed “The Black Knight.” His imagination and elbow grease paid off royally when the valiantly attired squire was named the 2014 Grand Champion of the annual “Reader’s Rigs” truck-show-in-print competition staged by our sister publication, American Trucker.

“The image of the noble knight stands for a lot of things to me: honor, integrity, courage, and respect,” Lobo advised. “It’s an image that I believe many truck drivers like me try to live up to. That’s why truck drivers were called ‘knights of the road’ in the past.”