ST. CATHARINES, ON – Although he won’t admit it, Billy Baker, of St. Catharines, ON-based W A Baker Trucking, is mighty proud of his 23-year-old son, Thomas.

Tom Baker’s 2006 Peterbilt is “Miss November” in the 2015 Shell Rotella SuperRigs calendar, 29 years after the elder Baker’s cabover Pete had a spot in the same coveted annual publication. It’s also April 2015’s Truck of the Month. 

Father and son are also the subjects of a very moving six-minute-long documentary called Unsung, about their personal journey to the SuperRigs contest in which owner-operators from across Canada and the U.S. compete for cash and prizes worth approximately $25,000. You can see the father and son movie here. Few movies capture the essence of the pride, joy and hard work that goes into a family trucking business quite like Unsung.

“I [wanted] to see him in the calendar,” Billy says. “It would give him purpose; it would give him reason to do that much better; to put trucking in his veins.”

Following his dad’s tire tracks, Thomas took his own Pete down to the zMAX Dragway in Concord, North Carolina and secured himself a spot in Shell Rotella’s 2015 calendar. It was his first time competing in the Super Rigs, one of the premier truck beauty contests for actively working trucks.

Thomas didn’t always want to follow his dad into the trucking business. His first passion was for sports and his parents say he’s a giften, but undrafted amateur hockey player.

“I used to drag him to the shops, make him work, make him wash, make him grease,” Billy recalls. “I really wanted him in the business. And he didn’t wanna be. And that really broke my heart because the way I am with trucks and I didn’t think he had it.”

But today, Thomas says he’s “not just a truck driver, I take pride in it.”