Cabovers

Well, I have put a few hundred thousand miles in cabovers. They aren't for everyone but they aren't any less a truck than the rolling apartments you see today (I have one of those, too.) and, in some cases, they are more so. I'd love to get my hands on a couple cabovers to play with: The Pete 372, the Pete 362 (Three-wiper model) and the K100 Aerodyne KW. I also really like the looks of the Newer Freightliner skillet-faced trucks.

 

Standard cab cabover with a 350 big cam cummins pulling a 45' 3 9's hauling heavy into MI running SR250 out of canton ohio. Haulin up to 70K on the trailer.

W900B 60" sleeper with standard WB 425 Cat pulling a 45' spread running mostly interstates from Ohio to KY.

Both motors had the fuel to them but the cummins was turned up alot. The Cat didn't have to be.

Same driver on both trucks.

Kinda throws the aero crap out the window doesn't it? Don't hurt yourself trying to figure this one out, it isn't worth it.

No back then the cummins sucked worse than the cat, to my knowledge.

 

not planning on hurting myself just courious about how that works....Some of us like to learn as we go through life. Although most info rarely if ever gets used its still fun to learn.....




American Trucker

 

Not quite that simple.

Heh, yep, when the short-hooded Volvos started showing up in the 80's we had a name for 'em.

 

I had a 9670 with a Cummins big Cam III 350, hauling from Las Vegas to all over Peoples Republic of Kalifornia, due to PRK being so sticked to the speed limit I hardly ever went past 60 mph at 1900 rpm and my fuel mileage was between 5.5 to 6 mpg at 80,000 # , never felt colder or hotter than a conventional, we were 8 owner op leased to the same company, I had a little fuel added to the BCIII and was able to keep up with the 425 cats and no cat ever got the mpg we the cummins got, going to the same places, back then the sleeper were nothing more than a box behind the cab that you had to climb though a hole, so actually the COE were as comfortable as many conventional and in some cases better.

 

A B-Model cabover?????? What on earth are you talking about???

 

Oh and you really did catch me sleeping a 1968 B-Model???
I would love to see a pic of this truck??????

 

Better view of the cab on this pic.

 

Man they were ugly--remember when harley's whole fleet were those--and there are 3 really cool retired(I think) drivers from around Dayton Oh--who use one to haul one of the local small colleges gear(bands stuff etc.)around--met them a few years back when they were trying to figure out how to get to staging area in NYC for the Macy Thanksgiving Parade!
Really neat bunch!

 

Scania make a nice cabover, but I've always been partial to the International 9800. Of course, aside from the right hand drive, I like the South African much better than the US models. Over there, you could get a (current production) International 9800 or Freightliner Argosy with up to a C16 Cat (before they got out of the highway diesel market).
The guy I ran containers for had me in a flat floor International condo cabover with a 12.7 Detroit, 13 speed, and 3.58s. Between the short length of the tractor, and the short length of the container chassis, I could hit all sorts of roads you did not want to be on with a conventional and 53 footer. I actually drove down one tonight on my way to Lynchburg (US60), which I used to run a bit coming out of Richmond. I suppose the cabover/container chassis combo caused me to get a bit complacent, because I really don't remember that road ever being as windy as it seemed to be tonight.