Looking for comapnies with long hoods

Nothing special….its all about vanity. The cabs are small. Generally what i learned was most companies running these want guys who live and breath their job and would do so for buttons just to get in a long nose
Drove one for 3 months long haul to west coast years ago..job sucked cuz company would not pay drops/picks detention…i only stayed cuz it was a summer job,,,,time off on the road was a party but way too much of my own time without compensation
A guy working there gave company my # and told them I wasn’t working so company phoned me asked it id do a quick run to Calgary using the driver as their source of information on me..,turned into 3 months
It was a small fleet with good drivers but grossly underpaid,,,they stayed just for the long nose.

 

Stacked Logistics.
If you stay like a year, run good, they’ll custom order you a pete or kw hood.. all their trucks are custom orders anyway.
They pull a lil of everything

 

I have driven Mack, Freightliner, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Western star, and Volvo. Peterbilt was hands-down, my favorite. Visibility was no worse than any other truck on the road. And The Volvo was the only one that rivaled it for ride quality. Turning radius was comparable to almost any other truck. Would I put a driver straight out of school in one? Nope. He wouldn’t appreciate it, and it wouldn’t go well with his flip flops. It’s more of the old school drivers that run hoods, those that have dignity, and pride in their profession.

 

It’s like you said, you’ve never driven one.

Visibility is excellent..so much so that I don’t have training mirrors. Cramped, not at all having a 78” dbl bunk sleeper with an actual real pillow top mattress is to die for

Not ever worrying about how much weight I got on my steers when I got 34 on the drives and 300 gallons of fuel..etc etc.

Cab space is narrow but that’s a big plus to me. The Volvo trucks give me the feeling of being in a fishbowl.

 

Lol i resent that.....I like my 760 lol....everyone likes different trucks for different reasons

 

I drove one for two years. Boss gave it to me when it was brand new with the plastic still on the seats. I was very grateful to get it and not knocking anyone who drives one.

If you’re driving what you enjoy then that’s all that matters. What I don’t like about the Volvo’s
Is the dinette/bed. It’s like something in a camper where you let the kids sleep.

To me having a nice comfortable bed made up with nice bedding is what it’s all about. Don’t know how you Volvo guys deal with it but I’d be doing some major remodeling before I drove another one.