Finally got my own truck

C@H did not close up... It was bought out by International
Transport. International Transport was later bought by
Schneider...

 

No,Schneider bought what was left of I.T..But I.T. didn't buy out C&H.

 

Heavy?

What pray tell are you hauling to require say an extra 1000 plus pounds tare?

I realize that I have been away from this thread for a long time, my thinking leans towards habitability and space rather than coffin sleepers.

 

The bigger the better. I hate myself for being cheap and not getting myself 780. But I spend 3- 4 nights in the truck per week only. For over the road life, a few more cubic inches mean a lot. It could even amount to a mental survival. How did they put up with those coffin sleepers (LOL) of the cabovers in the 70 and 80s ? They could not have been too spacious, could they?

 

Back in the old'n days sleepers were actually for sleeping. Staying cool or warm, and not broke down seemed to be the biggest challenges from what I've been told. Imagine a non power steering truck with no A/C. Wow!

 

They were for sleeping.

Young hard bodies like me could crack the skull sitting up in the bed during wake up. Resulting headache makes onery for dispatcher. Mawning Driver! *&^%$ Boss. LOL.

They were strictly for sleeping. You had a degree of immunity from lot lizards in jessup banging on your cab door, they run towards the studio sleeper trucks instead not coffin sleepers.

I don't know how I survived all those years with my mind more or less intact in those cursed cabovers. Some of them I wuved. But others? Omg. Road Commander comes to mind.... NOT.

There were a type of interior padding, I called it diamond dot. Cover the entire interior in it. Doghouse too. As long you run that 10% bleach and disinfect everything daily you could flop across the dog house provided your windshield and side windows had a custom blanket to block out light. That was better than just the coffin. Warmer too, over the engine. Purrs you to sleep too.

I did not deliberately destroy my work history for nothing. I worked carefully into companies with better equiptment. First air ride, then airride plus power steering, then condo sleeper then and more thens. I think companies overall got sick of answering equiptment questions late in the 90's

My very last tractor was a modern International COE Eagle I think it was about a 1990 vintage. Satellite equipped and so on. Not a bad truck. But... it revealed to me why I moved into conventional again. I have that retinal flaw that hides cars that are below my drivers door. Most people don't even look over and down next to the steer. But there he was. Now I remember why I got out of COE. I also told safety they better find me a nose tractor somewere from that line behind the shop. Or Im going to hit someone in that COE. They ask me is that a threat? Hay-no. It's going to happen. Oh youre fine run it.

CLANK. ZWTF? I told you. No use whining now eh?

 

I was with International Transport back in the 70's and 80's before Deregulation and left them shortly after Schneider bought them out.. IT bought out C@H shortly before Deregulation happened..
My Truck number was #233 and later #6233 because I was on their Vancouver BC fleet..
Were you an OO with them back then? Was a pretty good open deck carrier back then, but had to paint your truck company colors back when I first started with them, then they crrhanged it later on.. I lived in Portland, Or but the IT terminal was in Vancouver, Washington.. Almost all the trucking companies I ran for are gone..
First started running for Convoy Company hauling cars outa Portland, then bought my first truck in 1974.. Retired from trucking back in 1997, so memory can play tricks the older I get..
Did you run for IT or C@H?
We used to joke about what we were gonna call it.. #### or ITCH.. Anyway, that's the way I remember it..

 

ITCH.

*HOWLS with laugher. There is no emotican suitable for this...

 

Spacious? Every cabover i owned the sleeper consisted of a mattress and a few shoebox sized cabinets on the back wall. The only thing you used the sleeper for was sleeping.

 

Not true, sometimes you used it to store things that would break the windshield when you tilted them up.