Camping World Truck Series
Bodine made his Craftsman Truck Series debut in 1995 driving for Roush Racing's #61 Ford for 5 races. In his debut, Bodine qualified 3rd on the road course at Heartland Park Topeka, and finished fourth. His worst finish was at Mesa Marin Raceway, where he finished eighth an 8th place, earned his best start of 2nd and led his first career lap.
Bodine did not run the Trucks again until 2004, when he competed for Fiddleback Racing at Charlotte, finishing 20th and also ran for HT Motorsports's #59 Dodge at Kansas with a 15th. Later, he signed with the new Germain-Arnold Racing team, finishing 4th in their debut at Richmond. After losing in Vegas to Shane Hmiel, Bodine won his first two career races back-to-back at Fontana and Texas. Competing in ten events, Bodine averaged a 13th place finish in his events, despite falling out of three with mechanical issues. Unfortunately, neither Bodine nor crew chief Mike Hillman Jr. were happy with contract issues and the team leadership. So Bodine parted ways with the team and went back to Fiddleback Racing, where he would drive in 2005. Bodine was able to earn four top-10s with the team in ten starts, but inconsistency was weighing him down to 8th place in points. Fiddleback also had no funding and after a 9th place at Michigan the team was disbanded.
Germain-Arnold signed to have him come back. He won in his second race with the team at Kansas and rolled to four more victories, including three straight at the end of the season. By winning the final three races of the season, he made a serious run for the title. With four races remaining in the season Todd was fourth in the standings, a dismal 256 points behind leader Ted Musgrave. With Bodine's three wins, he was able to gain one spot to third and an entire 183 points on Musgrave to finish only 73 points behind.
In 2006, Bodine was once again behind the wheel of the #30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota. Bodine won at Atlanta, Gateway, and Texas. Todd Bodine won the 2006 Craftsman Truck Series Championship on Nov 17, 2006 by 122 points over Johnny Benson; it was Bodine's first-ever championship in any division. Starting in 2009 Lumber Liquidators left the #30 truck, while Copart came along to become the sponsor for the season, while still driving for Germain Racing.
On November 13, 2010, Bodine won his 2nd NASCAR Camping World Truck Series title.
For 2011, Bodine struggled with consistency, as he suffered bad luck in most of the first 10 races. Sponsorship was also a constant issue for the #30 team, and they managed to run 10 races with limited sponsorship. However, after Kentucky, Germain was unable to send the 30 team to Iowa without a sponsor. The week before the race at Iowa, Germain partnered with Randy Moss Motorsports to put Bodine in their 5 truck for the rest of 2011. Bodine went winless in 2011, and subsequently left Germain when the team decided to put its focus on the Sprint Cup Series.
In 2012, Bodine was picked up by Red Horse Racing to run a full schedule. Bodine would run subsequent races with ToyotaCare sponsorship, and won the sixth race of the season, at Dover International Speedway, in a rain-shortened event.
Bodine started the 2013 season driving for ThorSport Racing at Daytona International Speedway, finishing 11th.
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