Cabovers

What do you think about Hyundai Trago in the NA market? Bering had some good success for the short time they brought Hyundai trucks when they were here.

 

Somewhere there is a video of this truck in sleeper configuration on a road test, the storage was amazing and the road tester was VERY IMPRESSED, I would buy one if available.

It is for a global market and does have available left hand drive and emissions, only real problem I could see would be trying to ramp up a service industry to take care of the truck.

No matter how great it is, IF I have to wait 6 months for a grille after a dear hit, I'll pass.

 

what about the mack mr or mru/terrapro

 

Two issues, have you ever driven one of them? or a Pete 320, think cement mixer ride, secondly, no real HP/TQ thirdly, (ok I lied, three reasons) no sleeper.

 

OK, I stand corrected, the Mack CAN get up to 485 hp, still no room, no sleeper, beat you to death and expensive as hell, actually, IF I was going that route I would go Pete 320, they updated the int. for 2014, and at least brought it out of the dark ages, but still far from an OTR truck.

 

Yeah, I guess with anything if there is no support for it then it will not be very successful. If this is the free market I don't see why we couldn't buy if we wanted too.

 

This is what puzzles me about Volvo not bringing even an FH series over, at least they already have a dealer network in place, and I can't believe there is that much difference between chassis parts and/or electronics, and their motors are proprietary so what is the issue?

 

Some fleet in Canada is testing some FH . They had to get some type of waiver ? Steer axle weights are to high. Run wide based singles on the steers , good to 20,000 , problem solved.

 

also mack could use fm instead of this outdated cab

 

I wish you were correct but I think not.

This supercube contraption was obviously abortion of a office monkey that never driven a truck: That Argosy chassis is super long and the argosy was never a tight turner anyway for a cabover. Yes it outurns todays conventionals but the newer Volvos and Internationals turn in much tighter. That long chassey has to turn slow. Worse yet that 60 1/2' spread axle box has to be the slowest turning trailer yet. Where the hell you going to fit that?

It is not legal in any state and most of Canada's Walmarts and DC's are fed by Stateside DC's.

Walmart currently runs 48' turnpikes here in the states. 53' turnpikes are legal and used for store delivery in most of Canada. 48' turnpikes have more volume capacity, more weight capacity, use cheep standardized equipment, are more maneuverable, and can be hooked up to any tractor. That drom. is going to be a pain to load and unload and hard to get the weight balanced. Just how are you going to do a drop and hook that Walmart drivers love?

That Argosy is just a Walmart publicity stunt.