I cannot count on one hand how many times I can use a grinder without needing to clean it with iso.

I cannot count the amount of stainless steel grinders I have seen destroyed /s

I have a pair of these, I have a size 10 which I normally wear, they are slightly on the snug side in both length and width.

I really like them so far, took a bit to break in but they are very comfortable.

It seemed like they all just vanished one day. Then, a few years ago, I was working a site in Texas and there they all were...crossing back and forth into Mexico.

Ah, good to know!

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One thing that vividly has been ingrained in my core memory was the feeling of the outdoors heat coming in as we drove down the open road. Also remember the vivid smells of gas, oil, and overall trucking life without a a major care in the world given that I was a kid just rolling around with pops.

Legitimate question: When it was new, did the doors still feel like a piece of cardboard hitting a mushy latch when you close them?

Love everything else about the K100s. Happy truckin from Australia 👍

This looks like my grandmothers kitchen

It's a 1993

Hmm, fair enough. Sorry to hear you had that experience. I’d be disappointed as well if it was that inconsistent. I think I have the benefit of the seller I’m eyeing offering a 30 day refund.

Nice. So the tractor is a early 90's production?

This is a great truck. I own a shipping company and in order to get into ports we have to upgrade our trucks every couple years. We have a 2000 freightliner that we use as a hostler that I hope never dies.

We just call them conventionals as everyone builds them (even Volvo here in the US).

Bit of history, until 1976 the US had a maximum combination length restriction of 65 feet. For a standard 53 foot long van, that only gives you 12 feet of tractor. While you may be able to pull that off with SWB day cab in a conventional config...long haul drivers want sleepers and as long of a wheel base as they can get. 1976, fuel crisis and just about anything that could be done to lessen fuel consumption was done (national speed limit of 55 mph instituted, calls for manufacturers to build more fuel efficient vehicles, etc) and conventional trucks are typically more aerodynamic thus slightly more fuel efficient so the easy solution...extend the combo length limit to 75 feet. When you can haul a standard 53' van...have a long wheel base and a decent sleeper with a conventional tractor...why dick with cabovers?

It's truly a case of they've become rare because Mack, Peterbilt, Kenworth, Freightliner, International, GM, Ford, etc stopped making them simply because due to the lift of length restrictions, they simply weren't selling. Granted, you can still by a cab over Mack and Freightliner today...just not for tractor use (Class B application) though you could probably take an Autocar ACX as a 6x4 tandem drive chassis and add a 5th wheel to it. The cab profile would be lower to the ground compared to a traditional White-Freightliner cabover but the cab is relatively unchanged (in fact, the severe duty Autocar trucks have only updated the cab from the 1960's White-Freight cab in the last 10 years or so).

The two Quarries were certainly both Danner. One black steel toe, one brown soft toe. Bought maybe 2 years apart.

It may be the case they are all made in different factories, that would be an explanation without being an excuse.

If I wanted buying clothes to be a sizing crapshoot I would buy womens clothes.

According to a former lorry, now taxi-driver I spoke to in the US, the normal yank style is significantly safer for the driver in cases of a traffic accident!

Mind you, he did also tell me about carrying a gun and waving it about at people who annoyed him whilst driving, so perhaps not the best source of info. Hahaha.

Northern Arizona, the Colorado River is at the bottom of the valley.

1.6 million on original power train. Cummins N14 with Rockwell transmission. Consistently gets 8mpg on IFTA tax reporting.

The type of work, you won't list it or are you actually embarrassed?

I don't think I could do carpentry for that long and have them lastis why I asked

For real! I love the riveted gleam of a Peterbilt, but cabovers just have something about them that I love.

Better question, how many miles on the rig? What's the driveline?

Weed grinders fail faster than most anything. Ffs

So what's been replaced in 9milliom miles?

As I recall it's because of how maximum length (truck+trailer) is measured in both countries. Also that in Europe the shorter turning radius of a cabover is really useful.

Eastern Washington?