Lightweight Peterbilts Boost Bulk-Hauler Payloads

摘要

Payload and reliability are everything for Dave Coover, owner of Coover Trucking, whose fleet of 14 tractors and pneumatic-tank trailers are kept busy hauling bulk cement for construction projects in Kansas and surrounding states. That's why he runs eight efficient, lightweight, late-model Peterbilt 365 tractors like the one shown here.rnLooks are also important, partly for "driver acceptance," he said, and that's why he was attracted to the Model 365, a vocational type usually used as a dump and mixer chassis. It has a more boxy nose than aerodynamic models, and is arguably more practical because of its hood-mounted halogen headlights and detachable fenders that are easily re-Paired or replaced.