2005-2011
At the end of 2004, Hornaday was released in favor of Clint Bowyer, and he returned to the Truck Series to drive the #6 GM Goodwrench Chevy for Kevin Harvick. Hornaday soon picked up a win at Atlanta Motor Speedway and finished fifth in points. In 2006, the team lost its Goodwrench sponsorship and switched to the #33 to yield the #6 to Mark Martin's Roush Racing effort. Running unsponsored for most of the year, Hornaday picked up two victories this year at Mansfield and Kentucky He also has two top-tens in five Busch Series starts that year.
With sponsorship backing from Camping World, he continued his dominance in the Truck Series in 2007, winning races at two tracks for the first time in his career. He took the checkers at Lowe's in the Quaker Steak & Lube 200. Two weeks later, after a what-should-have-been-a-win-weekend at Mansfield, Hornaday outlasted Kyle Busch to win the AAA Insurance 200 at Dover. He continued his chase for a third title with a victory at O'Reilly Raceway Park in the Power Stroke Diesel 200, his 17th win on a short track.
On November 16, 2007 Hornaday won his third NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship by overcoming a 29 point deficit on Mike Skinner.
On September 10, 2008, ESPN's Shaun Assael reports Hornaday Jr. admitted to using testosterone cream. He used it to treat Graves' disease.
On December 21, 2008, Hornaday's father Ron Hornaday, Sr., died due to cancer.
On June 20, 2009, Hornaday won the Copart 200 at the Milwaukee Mile on his 51st birthday.
On July 24, 2009, Hornaday became the first Camping World Truck Series driver to win four races in a row by winning at O'Reilly Raceway Park.
On August 1, 2009, he won the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway, tying Richard Petty and Bobby Allison as the only drivers to win five consecutive races in their NASCAR careers.
On November 13, 2009, he won his fourth Camping World Truck Series Championship, joins Jeff Gordon, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, and as of November 22, 2009, Jimmie Johnson as the only drivers to win 4 or more titles in the three major series of NASCAR. Also the first driver since Greg Biffle in 2000 to clinch the title before the last race of the season.
For the final three races of the 2010 Sprint Cup season, Stewart-Haas Racing hired Hornaday as a standby driver should expectant father Ryan Newman have to leave the track. Newman became a father on November 18, 2010, three days before the season finale.
In 2011, Hornaday was second in the series being 15 points behind Austin Dillon after he was intentionally wrecked by Kyle Busch after the two tangled at a corner at the Texas Motor Speedway while lapped another truck. Hornaday finished fourth in the standings 50 points behind Dillon. Busch received a one-race Sprint Cup Series ban as a result.
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