Those lonestar tractors are for RVs, pulling sodding caravans!
Nicely set up though.
My KW has a 72" sleeper and I can stand up in there as it’s a mid roof model.
Some of the tractors you see down South are bloody huge.
I like the Daf pictured, but it would never have resale value in the UK with 16.5 metre length laws.
sorry I disagree as you could get the trailer
built to your specs so that it is legal also
what about pulling a tank,tipper,silo it just
depends on how you work and also will it pay
a germantransport company has a Scania-
-longline and shortened trailer er pulls his
own goods and makes money or a larger
company has at the last count 4 longline
Scanias (RICO) and they are happy with
them,
Yes Pete, but I was meaning pulling the standard 26 pallet CS trailers. Most O/Ds look to be able to do other work, and that’s an O/D truck if ever I saw one.
I would never have bought it because it would narrow my scope too much. I had tankers remember, but I did work for AAG, Davies Turner and others too. That Daf wouldn’t have allowed things like that.
Fair play to them. Nice piece of kit. Only been around for a short time and is the talk of the town already.
This is an interesting point - I see Scania T Cabs quite regularly on the roads in the UK, for example Stennetts have one or two on bulk work pulling what seem to be standard length tipping trailers , Van Bentum have them pulling Tankers - but I thought the reason they were discontinued in the UK was that operators had problems with the length.
Scania claim also that the Longline cab ends exactly the same length back from the bumper as a normal T-Cab, so presumably again this is not an issue?
I’m still scouring the A14 for the two RHD longlines that reputedly work out of Felixstowe, but to no avail!!! Somebody said that the Romantiek on was featured on the website of Arno, who do interior conversioins - but it’s no longer there either!!
but a standard tipping trailer with a bonneted truck will not be overlength, same as it using a 40ft skelly trailer, it will still be ‘underlength’ , and the load could be a 45 foot box. tanningtons have a bullnose, its not as long as a 45 artic.
the daf in question doesnt appear to have a stretched chassis, just the cab, and the gap between unit and front of the trailer is shorter (this is just from observation)
A came across these photos then remembered about this post.
Click on specials
www.powertrucks.nl
caught on camera at Cambridge services if I’m not mistaken? The firm is shown on the website as ‘Feelgood Inc’ - cool name for a trucking firm 
wonder if the trailer was any shorter to combat the length ? surely it must have been
wonder if DAF did the truck or was it a specialised conversion by an independant.Looks cool anyhow, but the interior doesnt look that good!!
wonder if the trailer was any shorter to combat the length ?
IIRC there is plenty of room to extend the cab a couple of feet on those Daf’s. Mine used to have a big aluminium box fitted directly behind the cab and that was at least 2½’ . It stood about a foot high and I kept my straps and other essentials locked in it. It was only ever a problem when the Pin was set back on a trailer, but the sliding fifth wheel took care of it.
arr an mdf king 
It seems it was at Peterboro this year…
saw the daf parked in layby on the a66 think it was wednesday, looks well.
I just noticed, the blue topline V8 you can just about see in gthe above pic claims to be a 660bhp. I always thought 620 was the biggest v8 scania did, unless it’s been chipped maybe?
Or is it just bragging??
That 660 Scania is owned by the same bloke that has the stretched Daf. The Scania will be chiped, but has a long way to go to beat this Scania, pushing out 750 BHP
Also heard that Sandy Kydds 580s are uprated to 720 BHP
Followed the DAF into Cambridge services the other day, im sure it was being driven by a girl with long blond hair. Looks huge up close.
bullitt:
Followed the DAF into Cambridge services the other day, im sure it was being driven by a girl with long blond hair. Looks huge up close.
What the Daf or the girl? 
According to the June edition of Truckstar magazine,the DAF is owned by Richard Rollinson from Sandy,Beds. who drives with his wife.
It cost them £10,000 to have it stretched,it was done in the UK,but the article doesn’t say by whom.
Inside is a double bed,and the bed has been raised to accomodate a fridge and freezer,as well as a 75l water tank for the wash basin.
The top bed has been removed and cupboards will be fitted in their place.
His first choice was a Scania Longline,but they had all been sold.
KW:
According to the June edition of Truckstar magazine,the DAF is owned by Richard Rollinson from Sandy,Beds. who drives with his wife.
It cost them £10,000 to have it stretched,it was done in the UK,but the article doesn’t say by whom.Inside is a double bed,and the bed has been raised to accomodate a fridge and freezer,as well as a 75l water tank for the wash basin.
The top bed has been removed and cupboards will be fitted in their place.His first choice was a Scania Longline,but they had all been sold.
And, if you can speak Dutch, here is a link to the article and pictures!!!
http://www.truckstar.nl/archief_foto.asp?soort=TRU0706R42
chorcheela:
It seems it was at Peterboro this year…
Yes please.
Seen this one a lot @ Isle of Grain Container terminal and he has his “missus” with him (could it be to do the washing and cooking) ? 
It looks a nice outfit as well (the truck) !!!
Must be a space cab with the same extension on the back as it looks like a one piece unit but I wonder how he gets away with the length limitations?