Importing trucks from other countries

The visibility out of a COE is not really any different. the main thing is you cannot see the truck in the mirrors.

As far as backing in and blind spots, thats what mirrors are for, i dont have any more blind spots than a conventional.

the one benifit is that these things can turn up their own hind end.

 

I can't recall the number of times I've blindsided in, with the passanger door open while leaning my head out to see my trailer with a conventional.

Last time I drove a COE was like early '90s, but as I recall, blindsiding with the cheater door open don't work as well.......(grin)

With eagle eyes and good mirrors, I could see your point tho.

 

electric mirrors make life easy

i blindside my rig al the time. convex mirrors ftw

 

I myself found blindsiding in a conventional easier than with a cabover but Its best to avoid blindsiding all together when you can. As cool as the guy might think he looks in a cabover he won't look to cool when he's blindsiding next to your truck. He'll be on the wrong side of the cab for most everything. It will get real old real quick. Now if its just going to be a toy then I'd understand but otherwise why make it harder than it already is just to run a cabover. Its not like there are no cabovers in the USA. Hell every 5th truck in CA is a cabover and I've run a few of them.

 

It doesnt matter what a driver runs.
If he is a bad driver, he is gonna be a nuisance.

in 8 years, i have not hit anything due to blindsiding.

 

I haven't hit anything while blindsiding either but then again I only do it when I need to. Why do it almost all the time. Even if he dosn't hit anything, who wants to wait around for him to put it in an otherwise easy hole. Why spend all day climbing over the doghouse or jumping out to get to the left side to talk to security or intercoms or whoever when he'd only have to roll the window down. All to have some Austrailian version of an American truck in America. It doesn't sound good to me but to each his own I suppose.

 

im not defending his desire, just saying its not as difficult as it seems .

i hate COE, but they are able to be placed within tighter confines for deliveries.

I used to have to blind side atleasy half od my deliveries evrey day, doing grocery drops to stores in melbourne.

 

I'd love a left hand drive Euro cabover here...nobody makes a remotely modern one here anymore now that Freightliner canned the Argosy
My daily routine is Northeast metro(Boston/Hartford/NYC/Newark), so hoods aren't high on my list. I'd really like a cabover with a 24"-36" bunk, single drive axle with an air-lift tag axle for those odd occasions I go over 60k gross.
Guess I'll have to build it myself.

 

what if you bought it AS A RV ??? then sold it to some one else then RE-purchase and lic. as a commercial trk that would bypass FET and lic. would be private then commercial

also check out TWINS CUSTOM COACHES they have some awesome argosy conversions HIGH DOLLAR but ill bet cheaper than importing

 

Hello, do you still have a friend who can import COEs?