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<p>[QUOTE="Dino soar, post: 9038132, member: 208212"]I don't know what year truck you're thinking about, but here's something to consider.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all you definitely need something that has a unibilt sleeper that has nothing behind the seat. I'm preferential to the fld120 trucks, and with the unibilt sleeper if your seat was set up right you could go back as far as you wanted to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, you have to consider that if the seat is so far back where is the steering wheel going to be? Of all the trucks that I have driven, the FLD 120 and classic trucks have a tilt telescopic steering wheel that has a massive massive range of settings. Maybe there's something like that on the newer trucks but I never in my life saw a truck that a tilt/ telescopic wheel that had such range for up and down and in and out. I would think that would be very important for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the fld120 dash wraps around you. So if you have a seat that's pushed way back, if you had something like the Peterbilt with a flat Dash that's a long way to reach. I always hated to reach like that because it gives you a backache.</p><p><br /></p><p>And depending the kind of freight you're going to haul, maybe you should consider a condo that you can stand up and change your clothes and move around. I would imagine that's got to be tough in a flat top or mid roof if you're that tall.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for some useless and kind of unrelated trivia... Tom Selleck could not fit into the Ferrari on Magnum PI. If you ever watch the show the top is never on the car and his head actually sticks out.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was on a talk show one day and they said wow you really are a big guy you're 6'4". He laughed and said that he was the runt of his family. He said his brothers are 6'7". He wasn't kidding.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]290767[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dino soar, post: 9038132, member: 208212"]I don't know what year truck you're thinking about, but here's something to consider. First of all you definitely need something that has a unibilt sleeper that has nothing behind the seat. I'm preferential to the fld120 trucks, and with the unibilt sleeper if your seat was set up right you could go back as far as you wanted to. Also, you have to consider that if the seat is so far back where is the steering wheel going to be? Of all the trucks that I have driven, the FLD 120 and classic trucks have a tilt telescopic steering wheel that has a massive massive range of settings. Maybe there's something like that on the newer trucks but I never in my life saw a truck that a tilt/ telescopic wheel that had such range for up and down and in and out. I would think that would be very important for you. Also the fld120 dash wraps around you. So if you have a seat that's pushed way back, if you had something like the Peterbilt with a flat Dash that's a long way to reach. I always hated to reach like that because it gives you a backache. And depending the kind of freight you're going to haul, maybe you should consider a condo that you can stand up and change your clothes and move around. I would imagine that's got to be tough in a flat top or mid roof if you're that tall. Now for some useless and kind of unrelated trivia... Tom Selleck could not fit into the Ferrari on Magnum PI. If you ever watch the show the top is never on the car and his head actually sticks out. He was on a talk show one day and they said wow you really are a big guy you're 6'4". He laughed and said that he was the runt of his family. He said his brothers are 6'7". He wasn't kidding. [ATTACH]290767[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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