Posted by ericlb on January 20, 2013 at 07:39:54 from (70.41.96.39):
In Reply to: Truck Questions posted by bill from scotland on January 19, 2013 at 17:11:43:
a lot of it is due to changed in state and national overall length laws,50 years ago some states had a limit of 50 feet for trucks, this meant that to cross iowa or ill for example, trucks running out of the west coast would pull into a place like denver co and its cargo would be broken down into smaller trailers, for the run east, in the 80's laws were made uniform finally and only the length of the trailer was regulated, cabover tractors witch were the mainstay of american trucking, disappeared virtually overnight in favor of conventionals, as anybody who drove one knows one of their downfalls was they rode like crap!some of the big conventionals here ride more like a car than a big truck, ive drove about everything out there at one time or another, and in a long day the way a truck rides makes a big difference to the ability of a driver to stay alert and do his job, long hoods serve 2 purposes, first the cover the massive engines found in american trucks,[ some making 600+ horsepower, with 18 speed manual transmissions] second there is a certain prestige to all that hood sticking out in front of you lol as to the dump bodies on european trucks id like some measurments on the body they do look longer but is it because the height is shorter than ours or the small cab just makes it look longer? i would imagine the cabover tractor stayed in Europe mainly due to the narrow roads there a cabover makes for a shorter overall truck as well as one that has a tighter turning radius
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