cabovers

Nope. Not Mexican. Californian. Notice the blue license plate. Salinas is in California. Steinbeck wrote about Salinas.

That truck belongs to a company in Salinas called Growers Ice, that makes ice to support the local agriculture industry. They can blow a 53 foot trailer full (around the produce) of ice chips in 15 minutes or so. They also support the nearby fisheries.

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They use so much water they have their own wells and water tower.

They also had this old Mack.

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Oh, and Monstro had just been given a bath the day before that picture was taken.

Then it rained up in the Siskyous on the way down to Salinas.

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How could those even be legal in CA? A waiver or something?
 
Last time a drove a cabover was 2007, a city guy took my truck key home and they stuck me in a 91' White cabover to run wild all week, while that city guy enjoyed driving a VNL linehaul truck..lol
 
OK, so it seems after the post of the cabover rigs in Salinas that someone here wants to see some Mexican trucks. These were in Calexico a couple years ago. We pick up insulation blankets for commercial airliners there. They are made in Mexico, brought over to Calexico, and then we cross dock the loads there. The Mexican drivers drop the trailers in the lot, we leave our trailer in the street, go in and hook the Mexican trailer (they strip the gladhand rubbers, lights, and sometimes even the landing gear crank), take it out and back up to our trailer, and transfer the boxes of insulation blankets.

I've done it twice, and both times I had a conestoga. Just roll up the back door, back the dry van up to it and start tossing boxes.

No way to tie them down either.

Then after cross docking the freight, drag the Mexican trailer back into the yard, take the gladhand rubbers back, hook to my conestoga and leave.

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Such nice equipment. They must have a great union down there.
 
I saw this truck in Yuma last February. A 57 foot long trailer. Check out how deep the pin is. You wouldn't hook to it with just any tractor, would you?

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A Pete with a coffin sleeper! This company has a dedicated run from Southern California to somewhere in Texas that they use these things on.

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I saw this Kenworth with a big house up in Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 years ago.

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Can you imagine jacking the cab on this monster?
 
OK, so it seems after the post of the cabover rigs in Salinas that someone here wants to see some Mexican trucks. These were in Calexico a couple years ago. We pick up insulation blankets for commercial airliners there. They are made in Mexico, brought over to Calexico, and then we cross dock the loads there. The Mexican drivers drop the trailers in the lot, we leave our trailer in the street, go in and hook the Mexican trailer (they strip the gladhand rubbers, lights, and sometimes even the landing gear crank), take it out and back up to our trailer, and transfer the boxes of insulation blankets.

I've done it twice, and both times I had a conestoga. Just roll up the back door, back the dry van up to it and start tossing boxes.

No way to tie them down either.

Then after cross docking the freight, drag the Mexican trailer back into the yard, take the gladhand rubbers back, hook to my conestoga and leave.

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Such nice equipment. They must have a great union down there.

So how come they strip the rubbers and cranks? Whats the point in doing that?
 
So how come they strip the rubbers and cranks? Whats the point in doing that?

¿Por qué? No tengo ni idea. Debe tener algo que ver con su cultura. Como si no está atado, crece piernas.

De alguna manera no creo que alguna vez hay un punto a las cosas que hacen, simplemente lo hacen ellos.
 
¿Por qué? No tengo ni idea. Debe tener algo que ver con su cultura. Como si no está atado, crece piernas.

De alguna manera no creo que alguna vez hay un punto a las cosas que hacen, simplemente lo hacen ellos.

Thats just stupid, makes it harder on everyone involved, call road service and bill it to the mexicans, maybe it would stop, if they would even pay it. I have never heard that about their culture, but there is a **** load that I don't have a clue about.
 
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