Cabovers?

There’s a few around. They sure were entertaining to drive!

 

There's a company out of Oxford, NC that runs a dozen or more cabover KWs mostly for Certainteed.

Sherman and Bodie... or something close to that...

 

The automatic DOT magnet is the multicolored truck hit on multiple sides with mismatched tires soda cans and hamburger wrappers all over the dash and the driver that looks exhausted and hasn't showered in weeks...

 

You mean the container hauler trucks?

 

Say what?

 

Cabovers seem to be making a comeback as a cool thing to restore. I drove a Stretched KW cabover with straight pipes for about a year in the mid 90's until it caught on fire and burned to the ground on rte 81 in PA. I also owned a
Mack cabover which was a very tough reliable truck. You couldn't give a cabover away back then in the mid to late 90's ,they went out of style for the most part and nobody wanted to drive them. They are cooler to look at then drive compared to modern trucks . Your sitting right on top of the tire and the ride can be a little bouncy and blind side backing up is a little challenging.theyre Also a little challenging to climb into ,especilially for a 400 lb'er who likes to graze at the all you can eat buffet daily !lol!
DOT cops that I know respect a well taken care of older truck that they can tell is well maintained and still on the road whether it's a cabover or conventional truck.Like the above poster stated ,it's the multi colored junk box with the fairing held on with duct tape, bald tires ,cracked windshield and the interior that looks like a homeless person under a bridge lives in that catches their attention the most.

 

I was looking at a truck that is a cab-over, but instead of a square normal size cab with a sleeper,
this seems to be like a day cab. Its side profile is real narrow and strange looking.
Getting up into the doors is like a little wider than a refrigerator. Weird.
I know there is a cab-over show here somewhere in Pa. and these fans would freak out over this.

 

Sounds like what UPS used to run. Mack daycab cabovers

 

I've seen ore cabovers in the past two years than I did in the 90's. And the price on them have gone up also.