Tag: cabover

Custom Rigs
Thunderbird spreads its wings: Rare White Western Star cabover restored
Pete Caporal says he found out only 620 of these cabovers were built in 1979, before White went out of business in 1980. He says during the restoration they found etched in the frame the number 475, the number of the truck off the assembly line.
July 13, 2017
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Overdrive Extra
Steel hauler recalls cabovers, wreck runaways and more from six decades
When Richard Maxwell started driving, cabovers were common, truck stop amenities were sparse and Dwight Eisenhower was still president.
September 22, 2016
For 18 years, Richard Maxwell has been driving a Caterpillar-powered 1984 Peterbilt 359, pulling a Benson flatbed.
Voices
Cabover road-train run in Australia with Chris Dinsdale
Multiple views in Dashcam Central of a road-train run with KW cabovers in Australia — Cameras mounted “on the front, the back, even over the 18-liter Caterpillar 3408.”
March 29, 2016
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Business
Company launching Class 7, Class 8 propane-powered cabovers
Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based Alkane Truck Company said Wednesday it plans to build a liquid propane autogas (LPG) powered Class 8 cabover for long-haul trucking.
January 14, 2016
Alkane’s Class 7 cabover is expected to go into production this year.
Custom Rigs
Ol’ Red: Owner-op’s custom ’82 Freightliner cabover
Owner-operator Robert Carr says he loves this 1982 Freightliner COE “like my kids.” The truck is powered by a a 400-hp Cummins. Carr says the truck has been “totally redone” from its stock set-up.
March 20, 2015
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Custom Rigs
Semi-retired 1990 Peterbilt 362
This now-retired 1990 Peterbilt 362 plays the role of “toy hauler,” says its owner John Sabo, who uses the rig to haul his antique tractors.
December 12, 2014
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Voices
Get your load on! (3rd edition)
More pictures of interesting loads sent in by Overdrive readers — find how to send your own here.
April 1, 2013
Tim Toppin of Toppin’s Diesel and Marine Service (Maine) sent in this shot, which he describes as showing an annual removal of the “48-ft.-long by 23-ft.-wide dragger”, the Surrette Pricess, for maintenance. “This one always makes me sweat a little bit. It weighs more than 100,000 pounds alone. Getting it placed on the trailer in the correct position and then pulling it out of the water like you would do with your bass boat gets a little tense.”
Channel 19
The Steve Bixler Super Trucks card
How many owner-operators out there have been featured on a Super Trucks card? Bixler’s rare honor shows his 1989 Freightliner cabover.
September 7, 2012
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Overdrive Extra
Is the cabover coming back?
So why is Freighliner displaying the Argosy in its booth? The company says it’s a big part of its export business.
March 22, 2012
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Channel 19
VID: Cracking Evel’s safe with Robb Mariani, Brad Wike
And, most importantly, small fleet owner Wike’s lead mechanic Frank Phipps (pictured), who did the vast majority of the heavy lifting with a blow torch and drill, Wike himself with the plasma cutter, at Wike’s place of business in Lincolnton, N.C., on Saturday. As with many such endeavors, the process of it all was much […]
February 20, 2012
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Channel 19
Visiting with Evel Knievel in N.C.
This morning I’m headed out to Brad Wike’s “Brad’s Classic Trucks” shop and home of his BPW Transport company, both of which have gotten the feature treatment on the Speed Channel’s American Trucker show, hosted by Robb Mariani. Mariani helped engineer part of the reason I’m headed to Wike’s shop: Wike’s doing a partial restoration […]
February 17, 2012
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