What a mess this pile of junk is, I wonder if the owner realises how stupid this truck is ? I’d like to see him try and drive along any non interstate route in Vermont or New Hampshire without getting a ticket and what possible use is it when you have to back on a bay at a distribution center … What an utter Twonk 
Note the small petrol generator mounted behind the cab and the household A/C unit in the back panel LOL.
What on Earth was this pillock thinking when he did this ?
I take it you dont like it Pat
I’ve never been a fan of those long wheel base trucks that seem to be all the rage with the good old boys down in Alabama etc. Doing it with a flat top pete is one thing, but this one just looks crap.
That’s an old Volvo WA cab, with a Mack hood that has been cut back. What a shed.
Arnold Bakeries have closed their private fleet down and put regional work out to tender.
I wonder if he making any dough with that truck!
Saddle Creek of Lakeland do their Florida work, and have put owner operators on it.
Profit margins slimmer than their sliced bread.
It must be an O/O; what company driver would take that out?
At first glance it looks like one of those proto-types that vehicle makers road test in disguise.
It must be like a red rag to a bull for the DOT.
You lot are way too upmarket…if there was nothing else I’d drive it, maybe in disguise…
I’d walk there with a wheel barrow rather than drive that!
You’d need a taxi to go and put the air line on FFS
I’ll bet if them tanks were chrome, the chassis was painted red and it had two 10 inch wide, 20 foot high chrome exhaust stacks sticking up behind the cab you guys would be all over it 
I would 
Charles
I’ve just had a great idea.Find an 8 wheeler tipper.Take the body off it and remove the second steer axle.Then put a shed behind the cab for a sleeper and then put a fifth wheel on the back and then use it as a tractor unit to pull a 53 ft semi trailer. 
Thats basically what this idiot has done anyway. I have seen these fools with extremely long tractors and have to ask other drivers to put their trailers on bays for them because they have a turning circle like an ocean liner. The fact is there is no city delivery he can do there is no way he can drive through Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine unless on an interstate highway.
I can see its a bit of a munter but the owner probably loves it…
Pat Hasler:
Thats basically what this idiot has done anyway. I have seen these fools with extremely long tractors and have to ask other drivers to put their trailers on bays for them because they have a turning circle like an ocean liner. The fact is there is no city delivery he can do there is no way he can drive through Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine unless on an interstate highway.
Seriously though Pat it’s probably not much different to the overall length of many typical units there if it had the older type of longer flat bonnet which would put the cab further back and a full sized sleeper behind the cab.It just looks weird because it’s got so much of the overall chassis length unused with the smaller sleeper and the short bonnet 
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I think things might have turned out different if they’d have allowed the use of drawbar outfits running at much higher gross weights than artics can though just using the same axle weights as now but with a 3 + 4 7 axle configuration instead of the 3 + 2 artic 5 axle set up. 
This piece of trash is twice as long as my tractor and a good 6 feet longer than the longest Classic XL and try backing into spots with one of those. Tha max for VT even with a special permit is 72 ft overall, this would be at least 80 ft so there is no normal state route he can use, the thing is a pointless truck happy toy and will be his downfall when he can’t get regular work.
Its not a particularly long tractor as long tractors go.
It just looks stupid and ugly. There are many very sharp looking trucks out there as long or longer than that specimen including all the ones with those huge custom sleepers and I see them all over the States.
I think that one could be an ex household movers truck that has had the dromedary box removed from the chassis.
Those with the huge sleepers are usually doing long haul, removals or specialist car hauling, they don’t go into distribution centers like this guy has to. Those trucks look good and have a reason, this is just an idiotic pile of junk
dont see the point of so much unused chassis space and turning circle of a oil tanker
