Cabover

It can be done. It will cost a little money. Get the big queen size mattress one. You need air ride. And you need a slightly longer wheelbase to make her ride better. To kill 2 birds with 1 stone, buy the back half of another truck that has the suspension and the gear ratio you would want. I like the cabovers with the 244wb. Has that long stretched west coast look but still small enough to maneuver in the big cities in the northeast. I drove a cabover long haul years ago. The short wheelbase and the spring ride made me piss blood, and that air actuated windows and wipers suck...but I did it.

Oh, and you want power steering.

 

And a horn cover along with a air intake bug screen... Lots of bug fluid. Huge oceans of the stuff.

 

The driving school I went had a few cabovers, I did about 300 miles in one on smooth south Florida roads.

No way I would drive one of those for thousands of miles every week. Just climbing in and out of the thing made me sore.

 

Have you ever been in a cabover.
There's a reason why there almost extinct.
They also look cool to the DOT.

 

I strongly recommend you try to drive a cabover before buying one. They abuse you physically. You are sitting on top of the steers. Every bump in the road is coming straight up your spine. Couple that with a forward and back jerk that shakes you like a rag doll and it's a recipe for injuries.

I first started driving back in '77 for a few years, in a '74 Ford cabover.

 

I liked them when I hauled in the USA. Just much more driver friendly if the truck is outfitted properly. Must have air ride cab adjusted real soft. Cool..oh ya! My favourite truck I ever drove was a 1988 KW COE and not many makes/configurations I have not driven. It just rode and handled so sweet.

 

I had two cabovers that I came close to liking, one was a 1993-94 COE body style with full airride. That is the dollar truck I referred to. BIG airride too. Which is why I got away with many things that year. But Conventional was way superior in terms of living space, human ability to move around, stand up etc.

Another was a 87. This freightliner was very good manners for flatbed work by daytime, the sleeper was a bonus but not used much. But it was there and it came in handy on bad days. They sold that one out from under me and issued me a CH Mack day cab, the first year they made it too. That tractor's performance was far superior to the 87 COE. You can run Town Hill near breezewood PA 4 mile 5% at something like 42 or so upgrade with the mack versus say 18 or so with the big cam 4 COE with the same 80,000 Altoona PA was my bread and butter being up there every morning regardless of winter weather. Mack was my little mountain goat. Ice versus babcock ridge up loaded and down emtpy with it's 230 degree 15 mph curve at the bottom was not a problem with the mack as it was with the COE or any other truck I took over that hill.

Other hills like Allengheny, fort littleton, bedford, blue etc come to mind along that part of the country.

 

Ahh the good old days of fleet cabovers



These were pretty nice

 

Those old fleet cabovers must be collecter items.
I haven't seen one in years.
I might consider an old flat floor cabover, but there
Nowhere to be found

 

There's a reason why cabovers are almost extinct, spend a few weeks in one and you'll understand why.