Cab-over Pete
I travel a good bit and driving through the country a few months ago I saw an old cab-over Peterbilt parked along a back fence, consumed by Johnson grass and dust. I got to thinking that save for a local farmer going to a nearby grain silo in farm country, I hadn't seen one on the road in a long time. Well by gosh, headed to Carlsbad this week on I-20, I passed one west bound near Abilene! Don't know what he had under the tarp on his trailer, but he was out there none the less. Shades of the past....
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I miss seeing them - or any of the old boxy shaped cab over tractors that seemed common in the later half of the 70's
I know the coefficient of drag - airflow - fuel economy arguments...
They have been showing up at car shows and enthusiast events the last few years - along with the most reproduced rig ever - the smokey and the bandit on screen beer hauler
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You came to New Mexico and didn't let me know?[:(!] 0 -
Used to see them at the piers, now not much.
Drove many a COE - prefer having a nice long 379 hood in front of me0 -
I recently noticed that I never see any "Cab Overs" on the highway anymore. Spent 14 years driving COEs pulling a double set of trailers. Got to drive a conventional a few times and they rode better. Quit for good in 1993. Seems like a lifetime ago. 0 -
An old cabover Freightliner with a straight pipe exhaust 318 Detroit is one of the reasons my hearing is so bad now. 0 -
Spent a lot of time in a old Ford C9000 and a International transstar 0 -
My last COE truck was a 1986 Freightliner 8664, a former North American Van Lines tractor. Got rid of it in '93; don't miss it one bit! 0 -
I still see a cabover on the road, now and then. Many of them are Mexican. They look so old, look like something from a museum.
I have never even ridden in one.0 -
About 30yrs ago I was driving a Freightshaker cabover,full grown 350 cat with a 9 speed tranny. We were hauling nitromethane , pick up Sterlington Louisiana, go to long Beach Ca, then back to Sterlington and then to Plant City Fl..back and forth. The containers once emptied had to be hauled back so it was pretty much non-stop. The Dock in Sterlington was tight but I never had a problem with the cabover,,then they made me take a long nose 900 series KW..Going coast to coast it sure did ride good but there was no way in hell to get it backed into that tight dock,,They had at least a dozen different drivers and plant people try and finally just give up and had a yard dog spot me a trailer there for a drop and hook 0 -
How many of you have driven these? Mercedes and Volvo were mostly what we drove, tough trucks that could do things American trucks only dreamed of doing. They didn?t take IEDs too well though and all that fiberglass muffled the sounds of bullets going through them. And the transmissions, HA makes a 15OD easy to drive, even though they are fully syncronized they are confusing as hell! 
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quote:Originally posted by buddyb
An old cabover Freightliner with a straight pipe exhaust 318 Detroit is one of the reasons my hearing is so bad now.
As a youngster my grandfather drove the same rig for over 30 years . I got to go with him a few times, never could get over that front end always thought he was way to close to things. but those are some of my most cherished memories from my younger years! I wanted to learn to drive and he thru a fit, told me to find something more family friendly.0 -
...a cab-over Pete with a reefer on and a Kenworth hauling hogs... 0 -
I hated those things. There were 2 kinds of cabover owners, the ones that fell out of the cab and the ones that where going to fall. Sooner or later you could plan on slipping or tripping crawling out of one. 0 -
Pawnee, you wanna back off another quarter mile? The smell is getting intense. 0 -
Hey HeDog, aren?t you close to Aviano? 0 -
Closest I ever drove was ab International Cargostar. Great steering. Like driving a boat. 0
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