There were warning signs of what was to come for a young Cam McQueen: he went to his first monster truck show when he was five or six, and, like countless other young boys, told his dad he wanted to ...

In the car-crushing, gear-grinding, dirt-chewing world of monster trucks, it’s as close as Cam McQueen ever gets to a home game. So when the 34-year-old from Kelowna roars out onto the floor of B.C.

It gets very loud very quickly when Cam McQueen lights the fire on his alcohol-fuelled, supercharged, 1500-horsepower big block Chevy engine that is the heart of his Northern Nightmare Monster truck.

Cam McQueen earned a failing grade on a high school aptitude test when he said he wanted to be either a monster truck driver or a stuntman. “The teacher said those weren’t real jobs,” McQueen said, ...