Cabovers

no no they says that for heavy haulage option by special request is v12 with 1000hp

(dont remember name probably it is called d2842?)

 

i was talking yesterday with father about old family trucks

and he says that first cabover in familly was mb1632 he bought it in 1976

first familly truck was MB LK312 in 1954 and last conventional was man 13230 sold in 1980

 

So i did some digging and found the companies website. Sent an e-mail and got a reply. Figured i'd share.

"It actually is a brokers truck and this gentleman owns 4 scania s. We have 2 on the road all the time. His name is julliaan W. and his phone nr is xxxxxxxxxx feel free to call him for any info and he d be glad to chat with you. Thanks for your email very nice to hear good comments about that.
We also have our own shop in woodstock where we maintain and restore trucks.
If you would like more info feel free to call us."

 

probably craziest thing ever about engine concept was man-bussing unterflur

this is engine placed in mid position between axles horizontally placed so floor in cab was flat

truck had very quite ride low center of gravity

good weight distribution when empty but they were offered only on longer wheelbase rigid trucks

it is presented in 1989







truck had

front wheel drive with same chassis height as road truck
disc brakes on front axle

retarder

2.3m standing height inside

very strong engine in his class

16speed automated gearbox

full air suspension

lot of interior equipment truck had fax , printer come cameras for reverse and some things i dont remember anymore


usually unterflur trucks (rigid) have engine on right side and flywheel towards back this one have engine on left side flywheel toward front , than gearbox , than special pair of gears which rotate driveshaft rotation than transfer gear than front and rear differential

 

you might love this one

 

there was two variants of unterflur semitrucks,the ones in your pictures had a wheelbase of 3,5m acording to http://www.baumaschinenbilder.de/fo...9&threadview=0&hilight=&hilightuser=0&page=94
the second variant had the flywheel towards the rearaxle and the wheelbase of 3,8-3,9m acording to my eyes
also there was a german firm who made unterflur semitrucks based on f2000 model http://hentschel-fahrzeugbau.de/produkte.html

 

it looks nice and well maintained

 

as much i know when they test tgs440 hydrodrive vs 19422 uxt 4x4 they says that uxt was 3.8m wheelbase (LAO) and engine was put flywheel forwards

i know for them nice things

i wonder why no one try to update f90 to fe2000 look

 

it is 50hp stronger than normal

there is about 1200 000 on clock recently get new paint new stripes and some other things it used to have high bumper before

also recently new clutch and gearbox is completely done because bad driver destroy it ....truck was now sold before it was used to overnight express on hill roads they get very good average speed (350km of hill road for 5hours)

this was before