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I’m Logan the 64th gear jammer Skeele and this is toy talk.
How many of you heard of Kreilkamp trucking before? DCP by First Gear released two different color scheme Kreilkamp Pete 352s with livestock trailers and I’m going to review those trucks together in this blog since the differences are only in the paint scheme.
In 1935 Kreilkamp Trucking opened for business in Allenton Wisconsin with four straight trucks owned by John H. Kreilkamp.
He started out by hauling livestock.
In 1947 Walter Kreilkamp, John H. Kreilkamp’s son, took over running the business and expanded the fleet.
John R. Kreilkamp started working for his dad Walter in 1957 by driving truck at the age of 16.
In 1965 John R. Kreilkamp became the president of the company. John ran the company very successfully and under his leadership more than double the size of the company.
2003 brought about a change in leadership as Tim, Mike, & Amanda Kreilkamp took over the operation and continue to grow the company.
Today their trucks log more than 24 million miles per year mainly in the Midwest and Northeastern United States.
Trailers include Reefer, Flatbed, Drop Deck, Dry Van, Curtainsiders, Rolling floors, & Walking floors. They haul all kinds of commodities for customers.
Trailers include Reefer, Flatbed, Drop Deck, Dry Van, Curtainsiders, Rolling floors, & Walking floors. They haul all kinds of commodities for customers.
Now on with the review of the two Pete 352s by DCP by First Gear.
Well, you may have noticed that this time I’ve got two trucks stacked up here in boxes, and I’m going to do both these trucks in the same video because they’re both Peterbilt 352s with the 110 inch double bunk sleepers. They’re both tandem-axle Wilson Silver Star livestock trailers. And they’re both for the same company Kreilkamp Trucking. So I figured I’ll just do both trucks at the same time.
These trucks were a dealer exclusive at First Gear. So, there were not a whole lot of them available to the public, just whatever number were ordered by the dealers.
As you can see, they have the standard DCP boxes with the DCP inserts. They are in the DCP 2 piece blister clamshells that are normally taped together with the extra set of mirrors taped to them. Both of these boxes do have the mural background, It’s just a nice piece so, that the box doesn’t look like that sitting on the shelf brown cardboard.
I’ll open them up one at a time and put both of them out together. The first one is item number 60-0845, which has the yellow and white Kreilkamp Peterbilt 352. It’s got the livestock trailer and the 352 cab over. Then we’ll move these back and I’ll go on and open up the other truck. The other one is item number 60-0844. It’s the black Kreilkamp and it is in a black Pete 352. I’ll set these cabs aside and start with the trailers
They’re the DCP Wilson Silver Star 53 foot punch side, tandem axle livestock trailers. They have the decks inside, even though it’s kind of hard to see without opening the door or opening the sides. The black Peterbilt comes with the livestock trailer that has the black roof. It has the black front, with Kreilkamp written up in the nameplate. It’s got some nice little blue pinstriping details right there on the front. You can also see all the warning and safety stickers that are tampoed on it.
Underneath this one has a nice black bottom and it has the standard screw down type landing gear that DCP is well known for. Turning it to the back you also see it has a black back. The door roll-up door is gray, and it does roll up. So, you can actually see inside the trailer. You can see the deck, the gating, the sides are all in there. It’s a very nice trailer inside. It’s got the silver, the Wilson logo, the Silver Star logo, and some more of that blue pinstriping trim detail on the back.
Underneath this one has a nice black bottom and it has the standard screw down type landing gear that DCP is well known for.
Turning it to the back you also see it has a black back. The door roll-up door is gray, and it does roll up. So, you can actually see inside the trailer. You can see the deck, the gating, the sides are all in there. It’s a very nice trailer inside. It’s got the silver, the Wilson logo, the Silver Star logo, and some more of that blue pinstriping trim detail on the back.
Also, it’s got a photo-etched part that protects the brake lights on the trailer on one side only, which is the side they’re always backing into the cattle chutes. You can see the brake lights are tampoed. It’s got the ICC bumper and it’s got the correct clearance lights all around.
Also, you can see on this trailer, it has the chrome weights on the bottom of the mud flaps. And it’s also got the chrome longhorn weight in the center of the mudflaps. Pretty nice details.
The other side, same details as on the driver’s side. It has your clearance lights, dot striping, and your nice punch side. It’s a nice metal side. It’s not a die-cast side. It’s just an aluminum side that’s been punched, just like the real one.
Set that trailer aside and pick up the other one.
The other one features all of the same details as the first one does, but you can see it doesn’t have the black. It has the aluminum top on it
Turning it to the front it says Kreilkamp, but it doesn’t have any of the extra fancy pinstriping details and it is just an aluminum color. It just has the warning badges, safety badges, Silver Star decals.
Underneath, this trailer has your standard aluminum bottom with landing gear. The landing gear does screw down just like the other trailer. And because this bottom is silver, I’ll show you the underside trailer detail because it’s the same on both, but it doesn’t show up with the black background on the other trailer. On both trailers you’ve got your air brake canisters on both axles. You’ve got working suspension, nice soft rubber dual tires. The tires are mounted on 10 whole polished aluminum wheels. It has nice axle detail, and the rest of the suspension detail.
Towards the back. It’s, got the same chrome on the bottom on the mud flap for weight. And it’s also got the chrome longhorn in the center of each mud flap. The Longhorn is pretty common on cattle trailers. It has the same clearance lights. But it doesn’t have all the extra fancy, pinstriping details. It just has the aluminum back. The door rolls up and it shows off the detailed interior which is exactly the same as the first one.
Round to the passenger side. Nothing’s really different.
Now how they got those mud flaps to have the chrome parts on them. For the weight and the longhorn they actually chrome plated, the entire mud flaps, and then painted the black parts on to make it look like the black mud flaps with chrome pieces. Pretty neat how they do that. And it works well. You really only see the fact that they didn’t paint the backside of the mud flap behind the wheels, but you probably wouldn’t notice that anyway.
Setting the trailers aside. Now, let’s go on and talk about the trucks.
I’ll start off with the yellow one, which came with the all silver, less fancy trailer. It’s the DCP Peterbilt 352 with the 110 inch bunk on it. It’s in a yellow and white paint scheme for Kreilkamp Trucking of Allenton Wisconsin. This one features the battery box and the air tanks, twin chrome fuel tanks, chrome quarter fenders, polished chrome 10-hole wheels all around. It’s got the dual chrome exhaust with mufflers, not straight pipes. And it’s got the dual intakes for the air. Also this one’s got that funky grab bar step thing that Peterbilt made. It’s got mirrors on both sides. It’s got the one spotlight up here pointed backwards, and it’s got individual turn indicators.
Also. It’s got the nice little Peterbilt logo right there on under the door.
Up on the roof. You can see it’s got the bullet style clearance lights, dual air horns, and the roof mounted air conditioner.
Around to the front. We see this, guy’s got a tapered bumper with driving lights in it. The dual headlights, a chrome grille, and the Peterbilt logo above the grille. The grab bars and the windshield wipers are molded in and then tampoed, instead of individual parts. Kind of makes this a little cheaper, but it still looks nice. It gets the idea. It’s got the hard plastic windows and the interior is dark brown with a gray debt steering wheel. It has a visor up above the windshield.
Then let’s go on and turn him to the passenger side. It’s got the other fuel tank, quarter fender, mud flaps, chrome wheels, and the same goofy step. The vent is painted. It’s got the extra tiny window down low on the door which is a clear hard plastic window. And it’s got the little mirror there so that the driver can see what’s beside him. Also a nice little touch, they tampoed the door handle silver. It’s got a molded in step below the door and it’s got that Peterbilt logo right there. The rivet detail is not crisply defined, but it’s there and the paint covers it pretty nicely. It has a real nice paint finish on it.
Around to the back. You see, it’s got white Peterbilt branded mud flaps, the brake lights, and fifth wheel. It’s got a pogo stick with airlines on it. Turning it up a little bit you can see it’s got a chrome diamond plate deck plate. You can see the air intakes are painted black with chrome tops on them. Pretty nice detail there. The back of the cab also has an opening where it would for the engine.
The other thing, this cab does tilt and it lifts up where it shows off a white six cylinder turbocharged diesel engine. It’s got an inline six.
And then we’ll turn him over. Underneath it’s got air canisters on the axles, differentials, drive shafts, bottom of the engine detail and air cleaner details. You can sort of see the exhaust lines, front suspension with positional wheels, not steerable they click in place. You can see the bottom of the air tanks. Most of this detail is painted black, except the bottom of the engine is painted white on this truck. Black was pretty standard for chassis on these trucks back in the day, some guys did run painted ones, but most guys just ran the black from the factory.
Now we’ll set him aside and pick up the other guy.
It features all the same details that the yellow one did, but it has a much different paint job on it. This one’s still for Kreilkamp Trucking Inc. of Allenton Wisconsin, but this one is all named Thunder Road. You can see at tampoed up there on the top of the sleeper. It’s a black cab, but it has a white and blue pin striping all over it, including on both of the toolbox doors. Well, this was a fancy rig. You can see the turn signals are a red on the back side and on the front they’re amber colored. It’s also got the white driving lights. The same dual headlights, chrome grille, and chrome tapered bumper. But on the front, you can see all that fancy blue pinstriping and the number seven written there. The beautiful Peterbilt logo is there. This one’s got the same brown interior with the gray steering wheel. However, instead of it, body matched visor, this one has a chrome visor above the windshield.
Up on top, you can again see the chrome with amber lenses for the bullet style roof clearance lights, and you can see dual air horns. Also again, it’s got that wonderful rooftop air conditioner.
On the back, it’s also got the white mud flaps with the Peterbilt logos on them. Brake lights, airlines, and on the back of the cab it’s got the same dual exhaust and dual air intakes. But this time the air intakes are all chrome. Unlike on the other truck, that were black with the chrome tips. These are all Chrome. The chrome deck plate is there. On the back of the cab you can see a little more blue pinstriping detail.
Turning them a little so we can see under the cab, these cabs just tilt. There’s sort of snap in place, but I would do not trust it to hold that cab down. To pick it up by the cab will probably result in the chassis being dropped and broken especially since these cabs will just snap right off the frame completely with the way they’re mounted. But anyway, with the cab tilted, you can see the white engine. You can see all that fancy piping for the exhaust and the air intake going into the air cleaner and into the turbochargers. They did a real nice job. It’s even got a pretty nice under cab detail where you would see it sitting tilted.
Now turning him around to the other side. You can see it’s got that same fancy pinstriping, the Thunder Road and other really fancy graphics. It’s also got that goofy step on this model. You can see the door handle is actually far more defined because of the black, it stands out better. It’s got the mirror for that little lower window so the driver can see.
Now I’m going to close these guys up and hook them up so you can see them out of the box all hooked together.
Isn’t that beautiful. Man, that black just shines.
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Now. Let’s get both of them in the same shot here.
I don’t know which one I like better the black and the blue pinstriping or the more traditional yellow and white I’m kind of leaning towards this yellow and white with the less ornate trailer. I’m thinking that’s actually much more my style. The other one just a little too much flash for me, but that’s all right. We know both kinds of collectors are out there and we’re gonna enjoy both trucks.
And there you go, guys. That’s the 352 model cab over Peterbilts with the 110 inch bumper to back of cab double bunk sleeper in black and in yellow and white for Kreilkamp trucking. Both with Wilson 53 foot Silver Star livestock trailers.
Kreilkamp certainly is a company serving America with pride in their trucks. Those 2 DCP by First Gear trucks really shine and will surely add to your collection.
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