Cabover

Do you really need the smaller turning radius?
24yr old truck would be cool as a classic project, but I wouldn't want to live everyday without a stand up sleeper.

 

If you have access to lots of money and have great physical agility, and promise you won't succumb to buyers remorse, go ahead.

 

Don't

It's not beautiful to those who have bent the back inside of the #### thing.

 

I love the look of a cabover, too.

If I were going to run cans out of a port, I'd get one.

I'd like to have one for a project truck, too, but it would be a tough sell to mrs skillet.

Did a month with CRST in a cabover, don't believe I'd want to go OTR in one ever again. YMMV.

You're the boss, get what you like....

 

I got a lot of people mad at me when I told the truth. Back when cabovers were needed for length, if you didn't need it to be short, everyone would have chosen a hood! Cabovers are nice to look at when only one out of a thousand trucks, if not one out of ten thousand trucks are a cabover, but what made conventionals preferable has not changed.

 

Ahhh the good ol' days, I remember laying in the bunk trying to get dressed, picking up all the change that had fallen out my pants. You had to either lay down or, lay down. Trying to get the cab jacked up in the bitter cold and the cab jack freezing so it would neither go up or down and having to get it towed to a shop to thaw out. Forgetting to secure everything when tilting the cab and having the 8 track case take out the windshield. The good ol' days? Not. I look back now and chuckle but I wouldn't go back to one.

 

God I learned how to drive a truck in a cab over, going across the country without air, without a big sleeper, sometimes sleeping in the passenger seat, having to be very flexible to move around, I even had a chance to buy another a bunch of years back but can't bring myself want to abuse my body again like that.

If you are going to use it for fun, then great, but making money, you will get so tired so fast in one.