Anybody still truckin' with 48 inches?

Biggest problem with 42' is finding a backhaul that will fit on it. It works great for steel mills though, many of which seem to have been designed for a small horse and a single axle buggy to back in to.

 

They are wonderful trucks aren't they. The FLD's I mean.

 

I kow what you mean, as I said, it was the best truck i ever owned/drove. Easy to work on, parts were cheap and readily available. You got the identical interior to the Classic with a MUCH better turning radius and that truck even pulling a 13'6" van trailer (about 6ft of trailer up in the wind) avg 7.5mpg with a 430hp S-60

Stupidest thing I did was get rid of it!!!

 

my current truck is a flat top 56" sleeper, my previous was a 56" condo. I spend about one to two nights a week in it.

As for the discussion on weight, keep in mind, newer trucks are are getting heavier because of emissions junk, it also depends on what your hauling. In my case, intermodal is always heavy, probably 75% of the loads I haul are 76,000 lbs + gross. My tractor with full tanks weighs 18,900.....800 of that is emissions. The tractor I recently drove as a loaner (that I did a review of) with 76" condo, twin 150's, DPF and Urea tank, 230" WB weighed 19,500. For a flatbedder, put a headache rack and equipment and your pushing 21,000.

 

don't count on it, what about weight distribution? Sure he can haul 47,000 lbs, but if he can't get it legal (one axle too heavy), then what difference does it make?

 

With a spread it wouldn't matter.

 

Who wants a spread? So much easier to slide tandems, weigh, slide tandems, weigh, slide 5th wheel, weigh.

It's not having a 42" sleeper that would bother me, it's having a wall behind the drivers seat. I'd rather have a 38" aerocab vs a 42" modular. However someone must want them because KW of Birmingham has 3 in stock. KW of PA has several also. I like the old school look but not enough to sit straight up and down.

 

I see a lot of rigs owned by the oil companies in West Texas sporting those smaller modular sleepers.

 

I asked the dealer when I ordered my last truck why they still offered the modular sleeper. He said because some guys wanted the option to remove the sleeper to make it a daycab. However since KW has the extended daycab which was designed to be ordered as a factory option or to convert an aerocab to a daycab I don't see much of a need. However it's nice to know at least Paccar still offers whatever the customer wants. You want a 2pc windshield, flat glass "B" model W9 with a modular sleeper? Sign here!