What happened to cabovers?

Does salesman Don White want to bust open the walmart super cube and its "save the environment fallacy" in a article pimping and promoting his product? Is a truck salesman going to pimp slap shipping giant walmart and say the reason their 'environmental savior' and frieghtliner's product is a gross polluting sham. Yeh, used truck salesmen always tell the full truth and nothing but the truth.

There is no more production costs in making a glider vs full truck. Full trucks outsell gliders. If frieghtliner saw profit in making the argosy emissions legal they would. 2007 emissions standards changed. 2007 the argosy production ceased. 2+2 = 4. Emissions killed the Argosy in the US:

http://www.truckinginfo.com/blog/all...nd-canada.aspx

 

Or, you know, it was just a losing market to begin with. Freightliner is parented by a company which has had to make COE trucks meeting such emissions standards (that being Mercedes-Benz). Ironically, your post would seem to be in agreement with what I said earlier where emissions were, at best, a final nail in a coffin which was pretty much nailed shut by that point. It was most likely the export market which kept the Argosy alive to begin with... had it not been for that, the Argosy may have never entered production in the first place. They're a niche product at this point in the North American market, and the niche just isn't big enough. As for the Wal Mart "supercubes", that's been covered already.. there really isn't anything to bust open there - that's already been done.

 

http://www.slideshare.net/Lavennder/old-beer-trucks

 

This is all I have to say.............lol

 

I think my favorite vanity plate I ever saw was on a truck belonging to a guy who hauled turkeys. TRKYTXI was the license plate.

 

I read somewhere that Kenworth will manufacture a K100 Aerodyne (The B.J. And The Bear) truck if you request it. And that it will cost you the upper side of 100 Grand. If that is true or not, I do not know. There must be some well-to-do eccentric out there who would do that if Kenworth says they would. Those guys exist.

I have only met one true - as in for sure - "rich guy" in trucking, out of Fresno, who ran his trucks as a - his words - "must at least break even" operation for fun. His family had been big in agriculture in that area and he had the trucker gene, when he could have kicked back. He had, for himself, a top of the line, everything under the sun, W900, pale yellow, chromed to the max, and ran around in that a few times a month, mostly dry van freight around L.A., the Central Valley, and so on. His truck made my government-spec, plain white International 9300 day runner look like a cardboard cut out. He had three or four others just as nice as the W900, that kept some guys in work for the "hobby boss". One of those was the K100 Aerodyne and it was around a 1990 model. He had bough it used and fixed it up. Nice truck but not very practical. The guy who drove it liked it but said it was a beetch to get dressed in! But he loved the ride so it must have been a smooth truck. Most guys I know that drove K100s said it pounded the crap out of them.

 

Nice!

That is the one piece windshield. I like that. Seems to be a real rare option.

 

I remember that. They even designed a third axle for the trailer so it could gross 97,000 lbs.

 

And that's come up again in more recent years, as well.

 

Cabovers are alive and well in Australia. Here is a 2014 Kenworth K108 B Double I took to Naranderra from Melbourne last year for a changeover. (Trailer swap) This has no "hump" in the middle and rides great, but is high and a pain to climb in and out of. It is one of the most popular rigs in Australia. Most east coast interstate rigs pull b doubles. Cabovers help meet the 26 metre length limit.