If the truck looks familiar, that’s Steve and Doris Bixler’s long-running 1989 Freightliner Cabover, the Lady in ... detail work — they upgraded the mini-rig to a birthday present.

Freightliner didn’t invent the cabover truck. In fact, the very earliest trucks were what we today would call a “cabover” design in that the engine was located directly under the driver’s ...

The only problem is that it is suitable for LEGO mini-figures only. The plastic semi-truck you see in the images was modeled after the Freightliner Argosy line of Class 8 cabover trucks ...

In response to the Mexican trucking industry’s interest in bringing cabover-engine tractor options to its market, Daimler Trucks North American on Tuesday introduced two new Freightliner cabover ...

“At the end of the day, you have to have a low [cabover] to serve this market, and it’s got to be able to accommodate front-end loader bodies.” During development, Freightliner worked with ...

Travis Heard’s “Whiplash” 1996 Freightliner FLD cabover is named for the medical condition Heard hoped to inspire in onlookers who see it and its matching reefer trailer (used mostly for dry ...

The photo is a 2014 Freightliner Argosy, a new version of a cabover Class 8 truck sold by Freightliner since 2000. Cabovers have traditionally not been very popular in North America since ...

“We are very happy to preserve this piece of Consolidated Freightways and Freightliner history,” Brandt said. The cabover truck was the vision of Consolidated Freightways founder Leland ...

This year, Freightliner countered the influx of cabover imports with two models of its own – the Class 8 FL 2528 and Class 6 FL 1217. Both vehicles, Rivera says, offer better maneuverability ...

He said that means the challenge for Freightliner Mexico and its dealer network is to educate its customer base on the reliability of cabover truck models as well as the long-term benefits of a ...