Old cab over options for work

I think just using it as a flatbed would be the best thing
Or converting it to a rollback so you could move construction equipment or vehicles locally .

A 5 th wheel would be useless on something that long .

I think a 79 would be a small cam in that trans star ,

 

The pic in my profile was a 1977 and had a big cam 1.

 

I stand corrected
I don’t know exactly when they changed to the BC

and old transtar with a 25 foot flatbed would be a good farm truck .

not much good for anything else nowdays

In the late 80s I had several friends using them for regional work with 48 and 53 foot vans but they were normal wheelbase , and local and regional runs you dont spend all day doing 75 mph

 

Does it have as many winches on the left side as it does the right? If so, that would be a great lumber truck for ltl deliveries. Most of our flatbeds are set up with winch to winch tiedowns and it works great.

 

Cool, an old "Trashstar", one of my favorite cabovers,,,as if. Equipment trucks like this, generally have low mileage, as driven to a jobsite, pulling something and they sit, I certainly wouldn't use it for any road duty, maybe a spare tractor or VERY local work. I'd remove all the other stuff, maybe put a camper on the back? Dump truck is always a good idea with these old horses, they run circles around newer stuff. Pull a small excavator and small dump is in big demand today. If I was to do anything in trucking again, it would be that, and an old Transtar would be perfect. Great find, they are getting rare.

 

Put a pintle hook out back and you can drag a construction style trailer. A few folks run setups like that in my area, behind a flatbed, hauling stones from quarries, hay or PVC pipe loads.

 

Fix it up and take it to shows. If you’re running other trucks then you’d be able to write off the parts and stuff for the rebuild of this one.

 

Sell it to me. That’s probably the best use of it. I’ll even let you keep the bed.

 

@Mattflat362 had a similar setup running smaller loads of steel around NE Ohio and seemed to do ok. I used to see him at a Tyson Krupp facility in Cleveland. That might be an option