The daycab company has a video out there where they have an extended daycab option that can only be ordered from the factory for the paccar 2.1 meter cab. I’d love to see ya build one of them. Be beneficial for a 6’4” guy like myself 🤣😂🤣
Sad to see the classic looking trucks going away, also not a fan of the plastic interior but it is what it is. Guess old school guys like myself gotta restore our 379 and 389 when the time comes.
I don’t understand why they replaced with 389 with this? 1 windshield so when you get a crack you have to replace the whole thing and with those angles your bound to go through many. The plastic on the dash just looks cheap. I mean, why not pick a better plastic. The digital dash that is full of bugs when the analogue just worked.
The only good response I could give you is to come to Denton Texas and take a factory tour. Everyone who walks through the plant quickly understands that the manufacturing process is complicated. Unfortunately, it is not about getting rid of the 389. It is about the difficulty of trying to do things the old way efficiently. There always comes a point in time where change is necessary. Listen to the latest Joe Rogan podcast with Elon Musk. Elon states multiple times that ideas are easy to come up with. Mass producing things are the most difficult thing he does. Even more so than building rockets. There is alot of wisdom in what he is talking about. I will miss the 389 but today I was in a 589 with a 63/72" Flat top. I was outrageously impressed, and the quality of life in that truck especially just took a major leap forward. When you have ample space in a flat top WITH A FRIDGE and 110 Outlest pre-wired! 😳 I feel the flat Top guys are going to love this truck.
A lot of negative things will be said about the 589, it's not going to be as well liked as it's ancestors, 359, 379, 389, at least Peterbilt can still build a classic style truck when those are a dying breed.
Yep, the 589 still looks like a Peterbilt and still has the classic Peterbilt style and characteristics. At least they go a totally different direction like what Kenworth did with the W990.
Sadly...Peterbilt should just continued make the 389 model. With it's, True Following like a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle. It would of been Hardly any, retooling, new vender parts, etc. Instead of working on their Paccar engine making it a top notch engine. These $100000 plus figure...Engineers have just about have everything, Screwed-Up, with trying to Justify there Jobs so they don't get Fired, with Screwed-Up Ideas. And there's no end to it. Look it the BullCrap with Electric Vehicles, catching on fire, running out of power in the middle of the freeway or highway etc...Go-Figure. I have 2015 389 Big Nose, when time comes I'm planning on installing a CAT Reman Engine & Load & Gitt, down the road...Come-On.