What is a 'Narrow, lightweight, one seat truck"?

Don't worry krooser what they cant fit in the sleeper will surely end up on the dash.

 

I read an article about this setup several months ago. It was an interview with a Prime exec. They are using these trucks to make a pitch to customers. Something to the effect of het customer you can put more weight on these, therefore you only need 20 truck loads for what use to be 21. And pitching to the drivers, hey less operating cost..... You know Prime, always on the cutting edge of putting more money in the company pocket.

 

Isn't that true of all companies? I mean, if they weren't interested in the bottom line and trying to make money they wouldn't stay in business very long. I hope Prime makes as much money and pulls as many loads as they can. If the company stays ahead financially, I know I can count on getting paid. And if a company is doing well financially, that should also be reflected in their equipment on the road, creature comforts at terminals, etc. I hope whatever company I'm working for is making as much money as they can, assuming they're paying me a fair wage, on time, and investing some of that profit margin back into the company to take care of their employees.

 

You know what they say about assuming right? Something about making an ### out of somebody?

 

You rookies are so funny... mini-Pete...hahaha.

Go over Hank's Truck Pictures and take a look at what we used to drive. Nobody #####ed about a 48" sleeper... because few had ever seen one that big.

We used to team and sleep in the same bunk in our cabovers... usually a 36" or maybe a 40" mattress. When the "double bunk" cabovers came on the scene in the mid-70's we thought we could have a rodeo in that thing... matter of fact I DO remember a couple of those rodeos with a few cute girls... but that's another story.

We used to carry one suitcase each and store it in the right bunk box. The left bunk box was for tools, jacks, etc. We used a clothes rod at the right side of the bunk to hang our shirts and pants on... plenty of storage... no closets or other storage. Of course we didn't have widescreen TV's, refrigerators, game systems, computers, exercise bikes, EZ Bake ovens, dining room furniture, patio umbrellas and all the other stuff some guys deem "necessary" today.

We drove and slept... once in a blue moon we'd get a motel room. Often the "free shower" you got was in the corner of a truck shop next to the air compressor or furnace... you'd stand on a wood pallet and shower to keep the grease off your feet. Clean towels? Yeah right...

Lots of us ran day cabs coast to coast... I ran an FWD non-sleeper (as they were called then) for 93,000 miles from late August of '72 until Feb. 5th of '73... got one motel room. Slept across the seats or from my Dad's old Navy hammock that I'd string under the trailer (during nice weather). Ran every state east of the Mississippi (except Maine) and all the way west to Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas.

I was happy to be working.

Suck it up... I have a 48" flat top bunk sitting in my son's shop waiting for me to get the ambition to install it and get rid of that bulky 63" raised roof that I've had for 9 years. Light weight means better fuel mileage and the option to haul heavier loads (I get paid by the cwt).

 

Now THIS is a one seat truck... with a really nice caboose... is this one of those prime mini-Pete's?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1U-uPxsCTI&feature=youtu.be

 

Pawtucket bridge here we come!

 

Note the military NDT drive tires with the sander just in front.... and the box of "flares' on the LF side of the front box... and the deal just above the 'flare" box is the left mechanical turn signal with reflectors.




The sleeper was behind, and below, the driver on theses Kenworth CBE's..

 

I used to stay out for up to 6 weeks in an 86" cabover. A 36" bunk and you had to put your pants on while laying down.

As long as I get paid to drive it & not to sleep in it, I want more hood & less sleeper.

 

And televisions used to only come in black and white.