Cabover trucks, also called low-cab-forward vehicles, continue to fight an uphill battle in the U.S. medium-duty market. While those on the lighter end the GVWR range can sometimes match conventional ...

International's upcoming CF Series will use cab panels from Japan, but otherwise all North American-sourced components. Frame rails are 34 inches apart on this Class 5 CF600 and a lighter Class 4 ...

Kenworth is probably best known by some people today for its long-nose conventional trucks. But it has had a rich and varied history that also involves cabover trucks. The company's production journey ...

A new cabover medium-duty truck, the Model 220, will join the family of trucks built by Peterbilt Motors Co. in mid-2007, along with two new mid-range engine models built by Cummins Engine Co.

Nowadays, we take engine-in-the-nose mid-size trucks for granted, but, as those of you with more than a few decades of experience in terms of loving cars know, things weren't always this way. We're ...

Two major transportation events took place in 1956 that would affect the U.S. trucking industry for decades to come. That year, Congress, at the urging of President Dwight Eisenhower, passed the ...

Chevrolet is expanding its lineup of cabover trucks for 2018 by adding the 6500XD Class 6 Low Cab Forward truck to a lineup that already includes Class 3, 4, and 5 cabovers, Chevrolet has announced.

As a lifelong devotee of the concept of sitting on your engine, I was delighted to hear the news that Chevy is getting back into the "low cab-forward truck" business. I was a little less delighted to ...

Trucker-photographer Don Christner is chronicling the past and present of rigs he found parked in the former small fleet yard of Junior Elmore in Cheyenne, Wyo. The journey began in the post at this ...

Truck manufacturers, fleets, and owner-operators are always trying to figure out how to stretch every cent farther. If their semi-tractors could just carry a little more cargo or get better fuel ...

Cline Everhart showed off one of his personal COEs, a 2000 Freightliner Argosy that still looks new. Aside from new paint, ...