RobS
Super Member
I know there are some truckers on here, maybe someone can answer my curiosities...
I've been a fan of trucks and trucking since I was a kid. I was a big time carpet trucker and built my share of plastic model kits of the big rigs. Back then I knew the difference between a cabover and a conventional, but didn't know the pros/cons of either.
So yesterday, I'm on a quick trip to Detroit with nothing to do but observe trucks. It didn't take me long to realize there are no more cabover trucks (except the smaller, city delivery type rigs). It wasn't long ago that JBHunt had a whole fleet of International (Navistar?) cabovers with set-back front axles. Not sure why I remember those, but they seemed kind of neat. But now, nothing. Not one single cabover amongst hundreds of semi-trucks that I saw.
I'm sure there are good reasons for this, and I can imagine a couple but why the relatively sudden demise? If cabovers are so "bad" now, what made them attractive a couple of decades ago?
Thanks in advance for enlightening me!
I've been a fan of trucks and trucking since I was a kid. I was a big time carpet trucker and built my share of plastic model kits of the big rigs. Back then I knew the difference between a cabover and a conventional, but didn't know the pros/cons of either.
So yesterday, I'm on a quick trip to Detroit with nothing to do but observe trucks. It didn't take me long to realize there are no more cabover trucks (except the smaller, city delivery type rigs). It wasn't long ago that JBHunt had a whole fleet of International (Navistar?) cabovers with set-back front axles. Not sure why I remember those, but they seemed kind of neat. But now, nothing. Not one single cabover amongst hundreds of semi-trucks that I saw.
I'm sure there are good reasons for this, and I can imagine a couple but why the relatively sudden demise? If cabovers are so "bad" now, what made them attractive a couple of decades ago?
Thanks in advance for enlightening me!