An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

nothing but glorified Cascadia’s, inside and out

 

We used to order some trucks with that lower bunk/table area. The last Volvo driver on the wing time has his set up that way.

 

Yep diamond stitched seats and imitation wood on the dash with different switchgear, otherwise it’s a Cascadia…

On our Western Stars, for now at least, we don’t have hood mirrors which is something I like, and mine fortunately is the old spec so I don’t have the assisted steering and lane keeping or warning. Heck I don’t have adaptive cruise because of the manual - and I’m ok with that, I’m holding onto this thing as long as I can

 

If you have a chance take a look inside it’s definitely smaller with less storage space, every manufacturer is giving into the fleets desires to lighten their trucks so we can haul more with our anemic powertrains.

If I wanted a proper sleeper and had money I’d order a daycab and take it to Bolt and have them build a custom 90 inch sleeper for me.

 

At least Volvo tried. The “next generation” Cascadia has different headlights and front bumper and that’s it. Along with all the digital dash and stuff that’s been an option on those for years. You can’t tell me that Freightliner spent more than a day in the design room for that thing

 

The real changes are under the hood and chassis, new plumbing an e compressor and the parking brakes are now electronically operated. Allows them to have more “safety” systems onboard for the ATA and means more failures as they work things out.

Oh yeah, now we get the e-radio standard even without the e-dash so Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will be standard, whoopee…

 

electronically operated parking brakes? I don’t foresee that ever being an issue at all…