Two major transportation events took place in 1956 that would affect the U.S. trucking industry for decades to come. That year, Congress, at the urging of President Dwight Eisenhower, passed the ...
Freightliner didn’t invent the cabover truck. In fact, the very earliest trucks were what we today would call a “cabover” design in that the engine was located directly under the driver’s seat. But ...
Kenworth is probably best known by some people today for its long-nose conventional trucks. But it has had a rich and varied history that also involves cabover trucks. The company's production journey ...
Cline Everhart showed off one of his personal COEs, a 2000 Freightliner Argosy that still looks new. Aside from new paint, ...
The GMC “Crackerbox” looked like a rolling shoebox, but for a brief window in the early 1960s it represented the sharp edge of heavy‑truck engineering. General Motors used this stark aluminum cabover ...
The first new Peterbilt medium-duty cabover Model 220 – featuring numerous enhancements to performance, durability and the operating environment – rolled off the assembly line at the company’s COE ...
To the unobservant eye, all semi-trucks are the same massive machines that barrel down the highways. But upon closer inspection, you'll find that there are quite a number of differences among these ...
Black Creek, Wisconsin-based Kevin Voigt has been around trucking his whole life and has been doing it himself as an owner-operator since he graduated high school in 2000. He grew up on a small dairy ...
This video follows the early steps of reviving a bullnose cabover truck after long-term storage. What parts and systems need the most attention after 30 years?