Kansas man passes state trooper while driving 30,000-lb 'unstoppable' semi-truck designed to plough through everything
Published on Mar 06, 2026 at 2:51 PM (UTC+4)
by Ben Thompson
Last updated on Mar 06, 2026 at 7:46 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
When a Kansas man took his 30,000-Ib ‘unstoppable’ semi-truck out for a spin, he passed by a state trooper in a surreal moment.
If you were to catch a glimpse of this thing, you would think it’d rolled off the set of Mad Max.
Who else but Westen Champlin would come up with something like this?
But he was brought back down to Earth when he passed by a state trooper on his drive.
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This ‘unstoppable’ semi-truck was a real attention grabber on the road – as this state trooper proved
When Westen Champlin got his hands on this semi-truck, he was working with a 30,000Ib beast.
For a lot of people, that would be more than enough in terms of ‘wow factor’.
But for Champlin, who may well live by the motto ‘Go big or go home’, he had to go one step further.
That’s how this plough ended up on the front of the truck, making it look like the Phantom Wedge of Grand Theft Auto fame.
Now that it was updated, it was time to hit the road.
First things first, Champlin was under no delusions about the type of attention he’d get out in public.
But he was still taken by surprise when he passed by a state trooper.
“I’ve never seen this many cops anywhere,” Champlin commented.
“He turned back on us; he just waved.”
This positive reaction led many in the comments to suggest that the cop was a GTA fan, which is certainly possible.
He certainly received a better reception this time around than he did when he and iShowSpeed met up for a collaboration.
Let’s just say a combination of fireworks and a tank was enough to attract police attention.
Westen Champlin is always taking on wild car projects
For Champlin, this stunt was just another day in the office.
Lest we forget, this is the man who created a ‘backwards truck’, and turbocharged a school bus bought on Facebook Marketplace.
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