FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

Yep!
I know what you are saying. Many years back I had a friend that also drove a Cab-over semi and 2 times a week during the night we would make deliveries to 8 different stores. That truck would jump like a cowboy sitting on a wild horse in a rodeo!
When morning came around we were beaten to the ground.

 

I run team 5500K a week in a cabover Peterbilt for 10yrs from Dallas to Ft Walton Beach back and forth 2 trips. Had the old swinging bunk. Old timers will remember them. I laugh when the cream puff newbies nowadays complain about a rough ride. They have no idea.

 

I hit that yesterday as well. Unfortunately I didn’t notice until I had passed TA. Had to run a bit further west to find a parking lot to turn around in.

Hoping they finish it quickly but that section of road really did need to be addressed. It gets a lot of Truck traffic from both TA and Pilot.

 

knowing Illinois, it might get done in a couple years

 

Well...maybe.... they have been working on the same stretch of I-57 for about 8 years or so. I was amazed they got the bridges North of Paducah on I-24 done as quickly as they did. I wish they would hurry the hell up and get I-80 through Joliet wrapped up. A lot of the dirt piles from when they dug out the shoulders look like they were always there. With grass and saplings growing on them.

 

I remember PRAYING that mine would need to go to the shop for a day or two to give me a break.

 

Now that you mention that. Going down the road I have seen more drivers bringing back to life Cab-over semi. I'm going to speculate on this but even though this trucks are a very rough ride they were dependable. I've seen a lot of flat bed drivers pulling loads with them.

 

I ran across thiis a while back at walcott

 

When Walmart retired all of their cab overs years ago most of them went to Mexico. You still see a few of them in the Harlingen, Brownsville area.

 

Yeah it is. Mine does it for about a day or two. But usually once I’m outta shop I’m hitting the road and not shutting it down for awhile. So there’s that.