New Kenworth chassis bolted not riveted !?

The 2.1M cab is made of aluminum and uses self piercing rivets. Can see them on back of cab.

 

Lol, no I don’t think so?

We just got it in a couple of weeks ago. Has 2 more coming in the end of October.

 

That's talking KW to me. Funny how that works without that hood. That a KW? What model?

 

DAM! *Pounds table.

HA. Story of my life Finally have a chance to drive a large car and not qualified HA... You probably wont touch me a 10 foot pole in dispatch either. Cowboys break horses, I break dispatchers in.

 

What you saw as a cut is just flash from the mold.

 

They used to BOLT cabs to the truck. The #### cab used to be made of that durable honest to god Carbon steel, none of that crappy mass production plastic crap that incurs a 2000 dollar fixit bill scraping a #### tree...

 

Not sure how many KWs or Petes you have been around, but unless they were severe service cabs there hasn’t been steel used in a long time.

Mack used steel in their cabs and they show the rust these days of the ones that are still around.

FL was aluminum.

Ford used steel bust alas they are no more just like the GM heavies.

 

Once again Western Star master race checking in with my steel cab and doors.

 

My good old W900A cab is steel. Well apart from the outer skin and roof cap anyways.

 

It is not my intent to give steel cabs a hard time. My thinking is that the metal cabs in the old days were more durable and very common. Why fix what's Broke. They were perfectly habitable with decent interior treatments and so on. (Anyone remember the diamond stitching?)

When they went to fiberglass, plastic etc things are not so durable anymore. I recall taking a cabover with it's condo cab (The top part was a sunroof and useable space under what usually was a airshield) And unfortunately I tested the Carlise railroad arch bridge in the middle and it would not go. The antennas not only sang for me but a soft thump made sure I got the message. Thee shalt not pass. I managed to blind side the driveway and get turned around. (I hate blindsiding, even though I make myself out to be some sort of a God when backing...) When I got back to the yard, there was damage up there instead of just a dent. So a post trip inspecition report was left at the shop manager's desk stating there is a hole inside the sheild in front of the sunroof where the Fiber Glass cab has been sufficiently punched to eventually let water into the cab. A steel cab would have just dented and all you needed was a body shop hammer. Bang it a few times and done.