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

It depends on how they spec it I guess. That one has the open cabinets and table tops that mine doesn't have. Plus I noticed that the windshield is way more curved than these older ones, and the plastic in front of the windshield that overhangs the engine and firewall is bigger, and it looks like the cab is even farther forward which is why these things ride so rough, your only a couple feet behind the steer axle.

Mine has the table under the bottom bunk, but in order to use it you have to move any mattress completely out of the way. These come with what amounts to couch cushions on the bottom bunk so you just slide them over the seating area and raise the table. But the mechanism on mine hangs down and takes up some storage room. On the new ones the bottom bunk folds up, mattress and all, and latches to the back wall and the table folds out of the bottom of the bunk...a lot better design than mine.

 

Probably some lawyer made them design a "safer" mechanism that can be controlled by the computer. It's like my wife's RAM with the rotary dial gear selector. If you open the door to pull (or back) on a set of ramps to work under the vehicle, the computer puts it back in park...you can't move it with the door open.

 

Made it from Missoula to Box Elder, SD. Since my load is so light I took the US-212 shortcut thru the indian res. Will be able to get to St. Joe tomorrow then to south central TN on Friday and will be able to deliver on Saturday.