What's it like to drive a Cabover box truck?

You will hate it.

Maryland has fine blacktop. I have actually driven small box trucks before Maryland had that fine blacktop for a lot of money. That concrete causes that little box truck to be a bounce house on every concrete plate. bounce bounce bounce. After 30 miles I want out of the bounce house. Never mind that wonderful lunch that now is a liability.

Here in Arkansas forget it. We do use them for rental now and then, but we don't move too far or fast enough on our gravel (Which is really interesting compared to simple concrete...) Ive had a good run, but those box trucks. That's not something I want to be making a living in.

The medical side escapes me in big words in latin, but short version is that the legs are long and I need room. If I aint got that room then forget it. I'll have to walk in circles a few times around my truck before we go take a walk across the warehouse to the shipping office on the far end and the lumper table around THAT corner at the other end. Sheesh.

 

lmao at the 'bounce house'

I'm starting to feel this way about my little Ottawa Truck bouncing in the yard. I'm getting really sick of it.

I enjoy the hours, being local, and the home time, but it's really getting to me driving that piece of ####.

 

Ah there is the rub.

Time you got out of there before you REALLY got bad. As in BAAAD.

 

They turn waaaayyyy easier than other trucks. They’re actually easier to turn than most cars.

Of course you can fuel at truck stops, but there’s no real need to pay those prices because you can fit in any station that sells diesel.

 

I don't wanna know actually. Fueling is from company card issued to you. It's their money, they can fight it out with the broker. Sure they turn easier, that's what they are made for.

Truckstops are places you can fuel at, show em the money when you are finished. It's what they do. Gas, diesel etc. We used to fuel at a fuel dealer who had all sorts of fuels including leaded gasoline which was a treat to one of my engines back in the day even if that was 4.00 a gallon off road instead of 1.10 highway unleaded.

I like to load heavy, the more the easier it gets to drive it. And ride better too. Anything less than full up loading is a problem. Being empty is a problem.

As far as turning, anything that has a trailer longer than itself is going to turn well. It's when you have a short trailer that is not as long as or just a bit less than the tractor pulling it which is a real problem. A 18 wheeler has 4 circles to deal with. Overall radius, steer radius, 5th wheel radius and trailer tandem radius. When you are trying to fit a 18 wheeler into a square hole.

 

But these Isuzu’s he’s talking about are straight trucks. They’re easier to back up than my old Honda Civic. I drove one of those ‘trucks’ for years when I had my specialty foods business. No different than driving a car. Easier than a car in many ways