10 Reasons why I purchased this 9800 International cabover 

1 year ago 2 years ago, a year in the future. Doesn't matter, just keep putting out videos!

Retired last year after 36 years behind the wheel .. First new tractor was a 9670 with a NTC 855 and performance nine speed .. Got close to 7 mpg .. When those set back steer 9800's came out , they were all the rage .. Lots of drivers were getting 8 mpg with the 9800's

As a gravel hauler I’ve faced this dilemma and our company has paid for many windshields over the years. We do the best we can to clean off any stray rocks and debris left from loading or unloading but it still happens. Our insurance is very good about taking care of it for us but sometimes it’s best to just swallow our ego and pay for it. And thanks to Jax, I’ve developed a weird obsession with cabovers. Don’t see many pulling gravel trailers these days…

I'm an old cabover lover. Hauled cajillion bushels of Iowa grain. My favorite was old KWs with Detroit power..

That’s the last truck I owned before I came off the road in 2013. It was an old Allied truck. Bought it off the side of the road. Yep just over 7 mpg. Loved that truck.

Your energy and great attitude is so uplifting. Pull your yourself up by the bootstraps, and go take on life. Thank you for the great videos. Hope all are well and safe.

I had an 89 K100E, 444 Cummins, 18 speed. It got 7 miles per gallon. That truck was a beast! Used it for 18 years, retired now!

It took almost 20 years for International to get all the dash electric bugs out of the 9670; 9700 & 9800 With a bonus Flat Floor design. Great Cab Jacks with good optional Air Ride. The Shepard Steering Gear was the only thing the Old Timers really missed from early 80’s production. I spent 14 years working on them at an IHC truck dealer. 🎉

That higher cab is amazing going to find one to replace my 9800i standard sleeper cab after seeing you stand up in yours. Thanks for sharing man changes the comfort level.

Thank you for your honesty and transparency. So many have cabover tractors and never give us the prices.

I like the older equipment,much more user friendly and way less to go wrong.

Really cool rig. The old 9800s have that nostalgic early aero tech 90s look to em. Cool to hear all the stories about it and that it's only had one owner. As well as the fact that it's mostly original. Also I agree with your points on the 9800 being more aerodynamic then some conventials. Great vid man keep up the good work

I started Ina '79 Trans star , no power steering, no a/c , short wheel base w/ a shiny 290 , 10spd governed @ 62mph and literally drove coast to coast , back to back out of Omaha many times. What progress Intn'l has made . I wouldn't be ashamed to be on the front page of super trucker magazine driving that 9800 cause it just makes good sense

Jax besides having an absolute wonderful family, great homestead, and a zest for life I want to wish you A HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Always glad I came over to the cabover. Sorry to hear about the drive by gravel tosser. I'm sure you'll be able to straighten out that road. Jax you are so positive...You could bring a Dead End road back to life! Your pal from day one...Kel

Nice video, they sold them here new South Africa I think up to 2013.. I've owned a new 2004 model, plenty of them still running, don't be fooled those new European models are not that better I mpg..those Internationals never die, If you want to make money they will make it for you, treat them with love and they love you back, beautiful truck!

These old trucks were affordable. I was sad to see them shipped overseas over the years becsuse they were unpopular here in the states.

It's about time you get the story out about getting your windows cracked, I remember you telling me about it when I came up to get the KW cab, can't believe its been almost a year! Can't wait for the new Rooster merch, defiantly will be getting some!

Great purchase my friend! Im glad you're happy with it!!

International and international harvester the greatest company in the world in their day Love them can't beat them!!

Great video,your content is always so interesting and different to the average trucking video.Well done.

Had an old transtar that walked all over the road. New king pins cured the wandering. Easy to check. Just a thought.

That is cool I didn't know they made cabover with a flat floor like that. I had a 99 day cab t800 with a 430hp N14 it was very reliable and got really good mileage like 6 or 7 pulling a tanker.

My favorite cabover!! Thank you for the tour

Love the new truck and you are so excited about!

Love your content bringing the fantastic energy 👍😊

Absolutely absorbing episode so never even thought about till you said,all good

My kingdom for a truck like that, living in Belgium US cabovers is a dream for me. Keep safe god bless

Still great video footage Jax very enjoyable thanks

Great video love your content always entertaining

Blue III is so cool. I loved my Mack cabover. Just neat sitting there above the highway cruising along.

Great video man love all things cab over especially the 9800 flat floors

Good video Jax really enjoy them tell Old Man Rooster hi. Have a wonderful day

In 1989 and 1990 i worked for Bell international is Springdale Arkansas i was a parts runner I've seen those brakes so many times

Best intro song on RU-vid! Sorry for your misfortune on the road brother that really sucks. Can't wait to see what you do with this beautiful new truck.

I just subbed to your channel. Survived thrive mentioned your channel on a video. I was watching of the day. I totally get why you bought that truck. It was an awesome investment brother. Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.👍👍👍

If your sleeper is fiberglass and got small damage, I've had great luck with SolarRez for patch work. It's UV activated drys in less than a minute. Designed to fix surfboards, but I've used it on fiberglass car parts. Give it a try. Read the instructions tho...

Love the CABOVER content love my 2007 Freightliner Argosy

Absolutely love blue 3!

We love seeing your videos no matter how old. That is a most unusual cabover, I might have liked the one we drove for a few weeks if it had had the flat floor and walk in sleeper, but what I remember the most is that cabover trying to shake us to pieces!🤣🤣 Any news on #5? ❤️🙏

You’re a cool dude really enjoyed your video! Love cabovers.

Love the flat floor...remember international doing an international tour back in 1998 think doing tour, came to our hometown Moncton NB Canada 🇨🇦 giving drivers opportunity to try them out.

That happens all the time . Damn rock heads.

I had no idea it was a year later Jaxs..joys of being on the other side of the pond! Glad your still kicking tho! ..yer I'm weird looking too as we both have long hair and big beards..the only way to roll baby!! X

It brakes the wind one time! Back in tge day 362 petes power train for power train were better on fuel pulling vans . Enjoy

The aerodynamics of the cab over is a way better setup than a conventional it only has to split the air on one plane and not 8 or 10 , nice setup I like it !!

My first truck at big orange was a flat top version of this truck. With a series 60 Detroit. Had it for about 9 months before I moved into an 03 century like the rest of their fleet.

Bus Steer COE's are my favorite trucks. My 1991 Bus Steer Freightliner got between 7 & 8 MPG w/the 14L Cummins & a E/F 15 speed. I really wanted a Aros Freightliner w/a 12L Benz Supercharged Diesel, w/13 speed.

You got the deal of the century on that cabover Jax! Well done sir

I love the international cabovers awesome.

I own a non sleeper version of that truck. Same engine set at 525hp. Tiny cab. Runs great but only get around 5.5mpg. Less than 600k original miles. Drives surprisingly good. Think your condo make better mileage.

LOL Jax..... I woulda never known when you took this footage a yr or so ago if you hadn't said anything 😁🤣 Enjoying ur content no matter how old Cheers!

Love ❤️ the vlog 😊 Sad about the windscreen hopefully 🙏 you boys can get it sorted … Looks amazing been nice a clean ❤ How cool is that…Blue 3 is going to have a pimp my ride makeover are you popping on a Chrome Bull bars and wheels guard thingy’s….so he’s super shiny 😊 Do your trucks 👆 up there run the mesh stone guard at the bottom of the windscreen’s like we do here in NZ to help protect the screens ?

That 9800 flat floor was dope. Wish I could find a flat top

greetings friend from Mexico I would like to see more video of the chatona your truck I have a k100 greetings and your truck is cool

Looks great . That COE is way better than a lot of trucks running out here !! Keep on truckin bud ! 👍

Heading to billings. I haven't been in Montana in 8 years ish. Hauling water, I here it's needed 😅

Смотрю тебя даже с России, интересно смотреть за интересными грузовиками

I enjoy driving cabovers because your sitting over the axle and getting a better feel for the suspension and steering response!

For the U joints, they need some angle to function properly thus losing 2-3% of power transferred through each U joint.

My bro found his old twin stack Freightliner cabover to be awesome at getting into tight backroads and super economical hauling heavy with his flatbed.

Cool rig!

Jackson I am in love with both ,, Steady at the wheel and this,, in 76 I bought my first pickup, it was a International , I was behind a truck pulling bulls and they peed all over my truck,, I got so mad , no not as bad as rocks,

I'm a trucker from New Zealand and a bass player would love to jam with you guys ,maybe in a next life maybe

I love that truck. I remember when I went through driving school in 08, they had a cut out picture to show the advanced cabover sleeper on this particular truck and at the point I kinda fell for them! Lol. Far as the mpg, it’s amazing what a cabover can get. I asked someone about it one day and their theory made sense. Instead of having multiple “walls” or faces for the wind to overcome one after the other, it’s just the one on a cabover. Albeit a large one, but the theory made sense regardless lol. That, coupled with the mechanical advantage yours has with the shorter drive shaft, I can understand it a lot more.

The COEs are more fuel efficient, you are correct. Seems counter intuitive but its true. I started driving in a pete 362 and kw K100… these Eagles were all over as fleet trucks in the late 80s and early 90s along with the Freightliners.

Yea Jax, I Got My 1st Start Learning to Drive Truck in a 1967 Freghtliner Cabover 335 Cummins! My Step Father & I Took This Truck to Florida from WA State Several Different Times Back in 1983! Great Memories! Snoman AL Here!

Was flipping between this newest video and Churchill Downs and your old pal Dale Earnhardt Jr is there!

I feel cheated 😂. Always good videos Jax.

I love the truck.

Blue 3, she’s a beaut!

Reason 11: Dude that thing is dope Bra! Tis Dope Bra!

Look into Grampa Gus's rodent repellent for the critters. I live in a fifth wheel RV and it does extremely well.

these trucks are a staple here in jamaica

I got to say it’s one of the coolest trucks

New sub. here. I love the old COEs👍

Love the music

Back to the future. Forward to the past. Doesn’t matter. Just keep on cranking out the videos.

I drove one of those for Schneider back in 99… To this day one of my favorite trucks. Was it worth staying at Schneider over though lol.

Now the short made sense. Brake was welded to the drum

A cabover semi wow I don't see many of those on the roads here in the USA anymore like I use to back in the 1980s & down.

It is Wild Wild West Trucking man so would be awesome to see Wild West art theme cruising down the highways and byways dude. You going to do it mate....go all out and show the love. Like a old West cattle drive thru the cactus or old west ranch scene or something

That is a cool truck I’ve ever seen

Not so much Lewis and Clark but plenty of Elsa lol. 🎶 into the unknown!! 🎵

I’m trying to sell mine now. Very good truck!

U like cab overs look up kenworth k 104 k 108 and k 200 And with blue 3 I think u need to full deck it out Tim From Australia

It’s comfortable that’s all that matters

I was wondering if that was the Int. cab over you referred to in the podcast you did with JR Motorsports. As for Blue III "less is more."

That's a great truck and I'd say you got a smokin' deal! From what I understand, people figured cabovers got no fuel mileage where the conventional trucks had the best mileage because of arrow dynamics

More power

good luck finding series 60s and parts. gettin hard to come by

Nice truck

Man I would be so mad glad you're bro is on the case. What ever ended up happening with the rock thing? I'm a painter would love to help paint blue 3. Hopefully you get 2 chrome dual stacks on her?

I will stick to my ext hood 379 pete long an tall. With c16 cat.

That international truck going to look great when she finished can't wait see it brilliant keep videos coming thanks 👍🇬🇧

You're not entirely wrong about the aerodynamics, a rounded nose cabover is about as aerodynamic as a normal sloped-hood truck, and definitely more than the T660. How it works is that a COE has less overall surface area than that of a conventional, and the rounded off corners help even more with the airflow, and that's how it cheats the conventional's sloped shape. For these reasons, the Peterbilt 372 is the most aerodynamic COE and production truck so far due to its extremely round shape and low surface area.

Cabovers > Aero Conventionals. I'm not a real driver, and don't plan on driving IRL (The pay in Canada is just awful right now, plus the lack of service stops on the major highways is another problem), but in Truck Simulators I almost ALWAYS use a Cabover over an Aero Conventional (unless there's no option like in the current American Truck Simulator, I would install the 9800 mod, but I just can't be asked right now).

Your stressing me out having your shoes on in the bunk area🫣

I always thought they were cool looking trucks, especially when I found out it has the walk-in sleeper an flat floor ..I drove cabovers till 92 but never drove this style because I was already in a conventional by then .I'm pretty sure it rides pretty descent with the set back axle an air ride..does it have the air ride cab ,an if not are you gonna add air ride to the cab ✌️

Good Evennig,i drove a Cabover about 22 Years, in Europe ,international