I've been there last year. Great show and great hospitality from organizers...planning to be this year also. Best regards from Canada and thanks for upload. Cheers Mike
i was at the one i louisville kentucky, it was awesome seeing those nice rigs, heck i still have my badge and every thing from that show, but my fav was the pete's, the old peterbilt's are like my all time favorite rig of all time
Actually Josiah those long frames on the old peterbilts serve more purpose then looks a few truckers told me they are more smoother ride because the weight of the load is further from the cab another truck driver told me that long space between the can and trailer prevent jack knifing in tight backing up situations . Boom !
Some really nice looking rigs, BUT I was really waiting to see two trucks come out from there, 1 was the rig from the Smokey and the Bandit, and the second was Optimus Prime from the Transformers.........Such a shame, all that fantastic work to make those trucks look as pristine as possible, and now thaT the show is over, it's now time for a lot of those rigs to hit the open road again and get all dirtied up from the highways.......
whats with the front bumper lifting up on some of the trucks what does that do? is that where the horns are or something? and what are the cone looking things on the back of the trailers on the doors? O.o some one explain plz?
I reckon cabovers are the way to go .. the long snout Peterbilts and Kenworths look ballzy mucho macho etc, however they appear to have one glaring problem .. there is a giant size blind spot directly in front. When a long nose arrives at traffic lights say in the snow and wind, and there are people galore old timers, young ppl dogs on leads etc .. it seems very often the driver will not be able to see what's going on right in front. Check the stats, are KW's and PB's responsible for more deaths than cab overs .. I reckon they must be!
show me, over the last 3 years, the number of (tractor trailer) cabovers that were sold. hell you can't even find a cabover STRAIGHT TRUCK let alone a OTR cabover.
The long frames spreads the weight out farther plus they ride better. Alaska has pretty much all long frame trucks because of all the bad roads they run on.
