Ol’ Red: Owner-op’s custom ’82 Freightliner cabover

Mar 20, 2015

Updated Mar 21, 2015

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.

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