Can You Imagine?

HA! "TrashCan" was a very popular carrier, I think he's giving us the finger, The cabover FL, shown here, was without question the most popular trucks ever made. No figure on how many, but had to be hundreds of thousands. I read, the cabover trucks of Europe, specifically the Argosy, are based on the FL cabover! Every union freight hauler had FL cabovers. A particular CF cabover a friend drove, had a "tattle tale"( speedogragh) an air pressure gauge and a red light for oil pressure and coolant temp, that was it.

 

Lol...I actually don't have any of that in my truck. That's a beautiful pic though.

 

Simple. They're mega mokes who drive their 300 miles a day and aren't allowed to do anything with the truck other than add fuel and DEF.

 

Looks like an Eaton shift knob in the interior pic. They had to have Mack engine, trans, and rears to get the gold dog.

 

In another life I worked for a roadside company and about the time I-20 bridge opened between Ms-La., about 73 or 74. Lot of roadside work going on and recall CF trucks had one fuel tank with no gauge, one air gauge, volt meter, and light as 201 stated. Driver had to pay I think I was told, two or three cents a mile to have A/C. KLM, at the time, was all cabovers as well.

 

After driving a brand new rig with 2 fridges and a hot plate to cook meals on, for the last 2 years. I aint going back to nothing else.. lol

 

I don't mind old, and while I like my truck OK, I don’t need anything big.

But I gotta have a good sized fridge. Don't care about TV or microwave. I set my frozen food on the dash or in the floor to let it thaw, then eat it cold.

I'm looking for another truck now, and it will very possibly be an 80's truck.

Passenger seat will have to go.

 

Okay! I'm old! I started driving for a manufacturing company in 1964. Cracker box GMC. 238 Detroit, 5 speed with 2 speed rear end. No AC. No power steering. Sleeper mattress was 24" x 72".
Interstate highways were still being built. I ran team in that setup for 5 cents a mile. We ran 3500 to 4000 miles a week. along with driving, we unloaded the trailer after we got to our destination. Life was great!

 

That’s a cool little factory fridge, never seen one of those before. Got me thinking about adding one to my truck now.