Cabovers

Say what?

 

Real reason, fat boys couldn’t climb in and those that did couldn’t get dressed laying down, plus no room for big screen, Xbox, cooler ect.

 

A conventional is much more comfortable. And easier to get in and out of. And I would certainly say safer.

 

Cabovers still exist in our fleet....




Even heard some of the new trucks we will be getting are cabovers....sigh...

 

You wont catch me in a cabover ever again.

Every one that I have ever had Ive taken cars out. Even the very last month OTR after 9-11 when JBH issued me a COE against my very explict warnings about them and myself. Guess what, I took out yet another car.

The reason I am way better in a conventional is very many. Too many to list. The most important one is a birth defect present inside the eyeball itself where there is not much vision. It's not important to the DOT visual test for range of vision in degrees and acuity for distance chart reading. When a vehicle gets to a specific spot on the left or right no matter how many mirriors there are present (I had up to 12 around the COE for my benefit) I will not see them.

COEs went out of the industry where I was after a certain number of years. But it also took a certain amount of years before Conventional for company drivers got really good. The FLD 120 would be my first really good truck. The century was a close second in terms of space available to a driver.

If they bring back COE style trucks again. It wont be with me around. Over my dead body. Now that is to say I don't dislike ALL COE, there are two in particular that did very well for me. And aint no one can do better even with today's so called modern design. You can have em. I wont.

 

Put in lots of miles in cabovers.. lots.

The one thing about em you are definitely the first on the scene of an accident.

 

I have over a million miles in a cab over, never hit a car, just the opposite at the company where I worked, when Freightliner came out with a conventional in the late 70’s we had a lot of right turn accidents .
I think your blaming the truck when it was not a truck problem.

 

Yeah, getting out of a cabover into a conventional with the steer axle almost in line with the front bumper and that had very little cut was definitely a learning curve.