For others, the memory of driving a cabover was just that, but no less alive.
![Billy Giffen “wishes he would have kept” this 1977 Peterbilt, his first truck as an owner-operator.](https://img.overdriveonline.com/files/base/randallreilly/all/image/2014/11/ovd.Billy-Giffens-first-1977-Pete.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=max&q=70&w=400)
Todd Modderman: I started out in a 1978 GMC Astro, 8V-92 and a 13 speed.
Mike Weldon: Love them. I started in a 1972 KW 8v71/8-speed. I want another one.
Gregg Mattox: K100 VIT and a three-story Ford.
Robert Wendt: My 1st truck was an ’83 IHC 9670. Hated that truck. Beat me to death.
![David Sterner’s “everyday ride.”](https://img.overdriveonline.com/files/base/randallreilly/all/image/2014/11/ovd.David-Sterner.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=max&q=70&w=400)
James Moore: Loved driving a cabover. Drove one when I drove for Baylor Trucking years ago, when I first got into trucking. Loved that wrap-around panel it had.
The first truck reader David Baldry owned “was a Peterbilt 362 … with a 244-inch wheelbase,” he says. “Great for long loads without a permit. Mine was red.”
![Chris Cooper shared this shot of a custom rig he says “a friend of mine built.” Rodney Lee: “What a ride, sir.”](https://img.overdriveonline.com/files/base/randallreilly/all/image/2014/11/ovd.Chris-Cooper.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=max&q=70&w=400)
![Brett Willnauer: My baby.](https://img.overdriveonline.com/files/base/randallreilly/all/image/2014/11/ovd.Brett-Willnauer.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=max&q=70&w=400)
Sherry Owens: I used to have nightmares of bobtailing and having to hit the brakes hard and landing on my face.
Ed Gosselin “hauled a lot of hay and grain with [this] old girl,” a 1985. “Formula 300 with an 8LL behind it. Not the best for the hills in Northwest Oregon! But we got ‘er done!” Gosselin replaced the truck with a longer-wheelbase FLD120, Cummins N14 “with a 9L. Never the right gear, but enough power. (Yes…the sheen on the ground is ice. About a half inch of it.)”
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