What year did glider kits start

This is what I've been saying. The FMCSA doesn't care if you run foul of the EPA. They will let the EPA deal with emissions violators.

 

To answer your question, not sure off the top of my head but I know earlier than this truck....

1978 model Glider I use to drive for Mr. Gue.
Originally bought by Homer Wetherholt of H&W Trucking in Ona. I watched this truck being built when it was new, never knowing years later I would be running Texas and back with it.

 

My truck is a Glider built by Kenworth in 1994, and titled in 1995. Truck vin ends in “GL” and is only 7 digits minus the GL.

 

I have a Freind with a W900 built in 2000. When the engine went down Cummins installed a new Cummins reman engine. Serial number on the block indicates the engine was built in 97 or 98, don’t remember exactly. But with some legal paperwork she runs a paper logbook still.

 

I don't know exactly where, but I have read a more detailed version of the law, and it does state that you can put an older engine in a newer truck , you just have to keep records of the swap at the office.
It also state, that it works both ways, if you put a newer than 99 engine in an old truck, it is not eld exempt.

So far all 2000 model trucks I have paid any attention have a 98 or 99 build date.

 

I’m in a 2017 with a 2ws Cat under the hood no emissions and no elog..

 

As stated above, the FMCSA doesn’t care if you swap an old engine into a new truck that isn’t a glider. The only issue will be if the EPA decides to crack down on it.

 

Way before 1970's

 

Read somewhere it was in the 50's trying to find article.

 

The glider kit was to replace a truck that had crashed with your engine and drive train at a cheaper cost than buying a whole new truck.