Crew cab tandem tractors

I own a small multidisciplinary construction company and I'm thinking of setting up a crew cab tractor to run from Maine to PA/NJ and maybe beyond pulling various job trailers. I currently have a 28' van setup with certain trade tools. The idea would be to setup additional trailers depending on what we're doing and just back under the trailer we need and hit the road. I'm thinking tandem because I dont want to buy/build such a specialized rig and then run out of capacity if I start running heavier trailers with it. For example, maybe setting up a concrete form trailer with a knuckleboom one day.

My rationale for this is that manpower is sadly a revolving door and it's hard to find good help. So I would like to consolidate driving responsibilities as much as possible. A crew cab with a bench up front seats five plus the driver (me) and that's a good size crew.

But I'd like the tractor to have some flatbed space in front of the fifth wheel for picking up crap at a supply yard or whatever. Big stuff would go in a cantilevered lumber rack over the cab, I think. This way, if the job only requires one truck and one trailer, or I just can't find a solid employee to drive a second truck, I can just drop the trailer and take the tractor.

I know I can order a new International HV setup as a crew cab. I'm not sure what wheelbases they have but I know they a setback front axle in both single and tandem drive configurations. Has anyone ever seen a tractor with a small flatbed space? I know what I am asking is unusual and not for 99.99% of users out there but it could work well for me.

Thanks.

 

That is sweet! Thanks. Do these have a special name? I'm trying to look up ideas and when I google different things I'm usually getting flatbed trailers.

 

I found them. Zoomed in on your picture. "Cab rack droms" is what protech calls them. Very cool thank you IH Truck Guy!