Coffin sleeper/historical question

Strick cabunder

 

saw that years ago, on "what will they think of next" i think that was the shows name anyway. golly that has to be a crappy view. from that low down you couldn't see very far ahead at all.don't imagine that many drivers would consider it safe enough to accept it.

 

Could that be a Wayne Daniels truck line ?
I have seen several "cab under" combo's many years ago on I-40 or I-10

 

My Dad told me there was a bed in the front of the trailer they hauled. A small side door to get in. 3 X 8, I guess. I have seen sleepers added on to each other. ones I could just dream of. A sleeping driver just needs a bed. I'm old school.

 

Thanks for the pic Rick, that's what I was talking about.

 

"sleeper" under the trailer in Nigeria.....

And no, I'm not kidding.

 

I have also seen pictures of a sleeper on top of a cabover cab

 

I remember reading that CF used to have special tractors that had the fifth wheel mounted so far up that when they hooked up to a pup trailer it was pulled so far up and locked in place that it became a "straight truck" with a tag axle and that was the only way they could run doubles back in the day through Pennsylvania.

 

I'm looking for pics--but cna't find right away--But--I think you r confusing couple of different things here--maybe--CF--had the first if not second(maybe P-I-E was first) with Drom boxes--basically a 6 or 10 wheeler with a 20ft box--then the 5th wheel--pulling long trailer---as for the far up 5th wheel--Big R mostly(but others)used to have only single axle tractor--and they were configurted with a rolling 5th wheel(rubber wheels and pins)and when pulling pups--the 5th wheel locked in just fron of axle--then when pulling a van--(2axle longer trailers) you pulled the pins on the 5th wheel--rolled it all the way to back of the cab--and locked it back it--then you hooked the converter dolly to the tractor--(the frame rails matched right up)the dolly pintle hook caught a receiver on back of tractor--hooked airlines together--released the fifth wheel on the dolly--rolled it forward--to between the axles--now a twin screw so to speak--allowed them to use the same tractor on line haul runs--pulla 45' out bring pups back--and the pups did have a very deep pin setting--(due to overall length restrictions in certain states(especially Pa pike)and deep pin made it almost impossible to pull with regular twin screw--even if it had a slidin 5th wheel--which typically they didn't....

 

Here is what i was talkin bout
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/kg_cf.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75930505@N02/7016267869/
http://www.truckersforum.net/forum/threads/roadways-jifflox-converter-dolly-system.71486/