Cabovers

Not that I am a fan of or want to see them come back,...

 

I am with Blackw900 on the subject of cabovers.

They are a novelty. A thing of the past. They are not practical in todays setting.

In my opinion if a truck owner had a cabover and was looking for a driver the truck alone would limit his prospective drivers.

On a lighter note, Cabovers are fun to look at. I enjoy seeing one on the road. Do I want to drive one again? NO WAY.

 

I agree but I also wouldn't be surprised to see them come back. Prime is a great example of where you would see them. Just look at those little trucks they are driving now just to have a lighter lightweight. They'd have more room in a flat floored cabover than them things.

I guess the sad part of it all........ any truck built now a days is a plastic/fiberglass truck in some shape or form.

 

I hadn't thought of this. You are probably right.

 

Very true im sure you all know who highway hank good is and he's been trying to find some to drive the highwayhilton1 with no luck. For you that have no idea what im talking about its a 1981 KW K100 with the aerodyne sleeper. Its world famous been all over the world at every truck show and was even on the cat scale super truck cards as well.






American Trucker

 

IIRC, that truck has a billion lights on it and makes it look goofy! That's why no one will drive it...lol

 

and you probabely get 15cpm for the great honour of driviing that truck
i am sure if it was just a simple--here you drive and i will pay you--then he wouldnt have any problem getting a driver--i am sure there would be a line up

i remember reading something a few years ago about somebody driving for disney---i think it was supposed to be pretty good--decent pay---truck had to be washed like every 2 days or when it got dirty--you werent allowed to have it dirty at all---poor disney image

 

I cant concider Columbia to be a truck of conventional design, becouse a half of engine is under the cabine. Yeah, it is easier to maintane, becouse to open a hood is much easier fliping cabin.

Well, there are some ideas to mix COE and conventional design.

Some examples



Ore this one...

http://bike4future.com/future-cycle/volvo-%E2%80%98vision-2020%E2%80%B2.html

So as I understand looking at Scania, I can open hood to access engine and I can flip cabine for some other works with tranny for example.

Well, one copmparatiom. We all know Mercedes PLD engines with push rod design. If this engine is under hood of conventional truck to fix something in timing mechanism, change timing gears ore just pull out cam shaft is impossibel with engine in truck.

But on our COE trucks we can easily do it iwth engine in frame.

 

Finish Sisu has truck between conventional and COE , hood can be opened and also cab can be titled

but there are some application where COE can be better choice


like construction , delivery , and similar segment ( but i mean on modern coe not something from 30-40 year ago)

also i saw this

http://www.volvotrucks.com/trucks/n...em.aspx?News.ItemId=98241&News.Language=en-gb

and they mentioned that short bbc helps to give operator more capacity of truck and all of this

personally i would like to have FM sleeper cab instead of this one, get bunk , and better visibility

 

yeah, seems to me future truck is not future engines only, but new cab configurations