Half Cab Trucks Are Disappearing In America For This Shocking Reason

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  • Unusual American Half Cab Trucks. Why were they mass produced in the past?
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  • @mountainofautofacts
    @mountainofautofacts  14 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    How do you like the video?

    • @itsJayden461
      @itsJayden461 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Good!

    • @JSMCPN
      @JSMCPN 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Would be better without the glitchy speech synthesis. Why bother making a computer voice say "bye everyone". It's not sincere.

    • @DarkLink1996
      @DarkLink1996 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I'd like to thank the original creator of this vid. The one you're blurring out

  • @larry648
    @larry648 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +29

    Still used a lot for larger cement mixers and yard tractors.

    • @DTD110865
      @DTD110865 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Also for cranes.

    • @larry648
      @larry648 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@DTD110865 yep, forgot about those.

    • @SafeTrucking
      @SafeTrucking 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And steel bar and tube. Never seen a concrete agitator half cab here in Australia though.

    • @Cartoondude135
      @Cartoondude135 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

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  • @solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226
    @solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +26

    This type of cab is used mainly for yard work now days

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Trucks that are chassis for carrying hydraulic excavators are often half cabs. Also cement mixers.

    • @drjekelmrhyde
      @drjekelmrhyde 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yard mules

  • @u686st7
    @u686st7 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    Crane carriers had half cabs to allow for room to put the boom down.

  • @user-kj1od5ed7p
    @user-kj1od5ed7p 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +28

    Is this artificial intelligence audio sure seems like it

    • @s0nnyburnett
      @s0nnyburnett 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Sounds like it

    • @RT-.
      @RT-. 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      Look at the top right - they're probably blurring the channel the video got stolen from

    • @JSMCPN
      @JSMCPN 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Yea, it started speaking gibberish/French for a second around 2:10 ... yunatatwasus ... then spoke alien at 3:10 ... xtk n'AH

    • @RT-.
      @RT-. 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@BuffaloPros No, that's just sensationalistic

    • @user-kj1od5ed7p
      @user-kj1od5ed7p 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@BuffaloPros grow up yourself you sound like one of those personalities who tries to dominate people around you if you around me it would not work

  • @Cletrac305
    @Cletrac305 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    Nice video! Showed some I haven't seen. I used to drive "half cab" Macks, which weren't in this video. They used to be very popular in the U.S. They were more like 2/3 cab because they did have 2 seats, but the cab was offset to one side. There are specialty vehicles like cranes and cement mixers still being made this way. Many "toter", "spotter" or "yard dog" trucks are made this way with a door in the back of the cab. They are used only in yards, moving dropped trailers around factories and watehouses, etc the narrow cab helps with visibility backing up, the rear door with hooking and unhooking.

    • @mountainofautofacts
      @mountainofautofacts  13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks for your comment

    • @smorefirewood
      @smorefirewood 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Ty Jehovah Mack you refer to was a full cab just offset and very slightly forward. A DM Mack (offset) and say an R model cab (centered) we’re the same cab.
      Just saying as I work on these daily.

    • @Retired88M
      @Retired88M 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      In construction applications the Mack side shifted cabs were the DM designation
      For on highway they were the U model
      They were both really good for backing into tight places where the driver could just look back instead of using his mirrors

  • @jimbower9268
    @jimbower9268 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    My first wife’s father was an engineer with Crane Carrier Company back in the middle 70s. He said they built those single cabs because the company believed that nobody needed to be in the truck except the driver.

  • @SafeTrucking
    @SafeTrucking 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I drove half-cab crane trucks delivering steel here in Australia. The reason for the half cab was to allow for longer lengths of bar product to be carried on a rigid truck and allow access to places where a semi would find it difficult to get in and out. They were all conversions from standard cabs, and so they were a lot dearer that a standard, but we could carry 11m lengths rather than the standard 9m that a full cab could do.

  • @benreid7567
    @benreid7567 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    We had these as body trucks in Australia for hauling steel and timber or any overlength materials. We referred to them as a long Tom.

    • @antontsau
      @antontsau 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They are all special conversions from usual cabover and of course used only for local use, from warehouse to site, not long hauls

  • @uncipaws7643
    @uncipaws7643 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    What's shocking about the reasons?
    I've seen half cabins in dump trucks that don't go on the road but move bulk material within open mines. Also in airport trucks that have half or low-profile cab so they can load aircraft across the front end.

    • @mountainofautofacts
      @mountainofautofacts  12 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      There is nothing shocking about it. This is how I attract the attention of viewers, since the channel is new.

    • @phaedrussmith1949
      @phaedrussmith1949 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Honesty. How refreshing.

  • @infernoking7504
    @infernoking7504 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I find those trucks odd but they have a job

  • @roadtrain5910
    @roadtrain5910 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    what about island cabs?....where the cab is in the middle not to the side left or right but in the middle directly over the engine

    • @railtrolley
      @railtrolley 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I remember when island cabs were a common sight in 1970s. Mostly disappeared in 1980s onwards. Usually, carrying lengths of steel. It was a clever way to carry a longer load, and complying with legal truck length regulations at the time.

    • @lewiemcneely9143
      @lewiemcneely9143 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Oshkosh/Mack front discharge concrete trucks.

    • @bertnl530
      @bertnl530 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      In Denmark you saw them a lot for hauling long steel bars to construction sites.

  • @jebsails2837
    @jebsails2837 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Major use was as yard haulers at terminals and or piers. Spots the trailer / container to from drop off / discharge point to pickup point. A navy buddy of mine did this while awaiting his next long-haul assignment. Narragansett Bay

  • @removechan10298
    @removechan10298 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    3:13 no second takes

  • @andrewstevenson142
    @andrewstevenson142 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I can remember the half cab Fodens, ARC had a few 8 wheelers and dump trucks my mate drove one but didn't like it because of the refections from the glass, his had the gardener 180, 9 speed gearbox, some had the 12 speed, seems to be a long time ago now, but remember some good memories

  • @mabus42
    @mabus42 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    They still make new ones... they're called yard dogs. They're particularly popular for places like cross docks, where their diminutive size and improved visibility make for movinig around the trailers without a full-size semi very easy.

    • @MikeDCWeld
      @MikeDCWeld 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The name for the tractors is "yard mule", "yard dogs" are the people that drive them.

  • @richardunicorn7879
    @richardunicorn7879 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    They're are still used in the U.S. for yard trucks, and for driving a trailer across town. That's what they do around me, in Indiana, anyway.

  • @lewiemcneely9143
    @lewiemcneely9143 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Had CCC (Crane Carrier) dumps here years ago.

  • @stanleybest8833
    @stanleybest8833 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Popeye Mack"

  • @DistanceCentralRailroading
    @DistanceCentralRailroading 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And yes Even centered Narrow cab trucks exist for those who didn't know.

  • @robertknight4672
    @robertknight4672 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In Massachusetts a lot of cement trucks still use the half cab design.

  • @jamesgudgeon4868
    @jamesgudgeon4868 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I Remember Seeing Half Cab Trucks in Australia 🇦🇺 2:21

  • @kevinmackay5233
    @kevinmackay5233 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    For being an Ai voiced video, this was actually pretty informative

    • @mountainofautofacts
      @mountainofautofacts  12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      There is no possibility to voice the video with a live voice now, as the channel develops everything will be. But the videos will be interesting and informative.

    • @marcusdamberger
      @marcusdamberger 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@mountainofautofactsWhy? I can't stand AI robot voice narrator, they always get some pronunciation wrong or odd phrasing that makes it stick out. Why can't you narrate this yourself or find someone who you know that can? They have services available that are cheap to have a human narrate it. I usually end up down voting AI voices because I don't want to hear it again.

  • @phloughtgnarpsehs7263
    @phloughtgnarpsehs7263 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    2:14 what?

  • @nebuladog
    @nebuladog วันที่ผ่านมา

    I see a lot of these being used for yardwork near my job.

  • @lylewitt7393
    @lylewitt7393 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Where I worked, they were used for switching trailers.

  • @fernandoguzmanfernandez3466
    @fernandoguzmanfernandez3466 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Spanish truck Pegaso had the 3076 and 3078 models, nicknamed "Tuerto" ("One-eyed"). They were dumpers, cranes and drills mainly.

  • @marshallr4797
    @marshallr4797 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My cousins Tonka dump truck was a half cab

  • @ourv9603
    @ourv9603 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Heres how I do it>>>
    I drive my Mav up onto my 9" ramps
    THEN
    I put my floor jack under the trailer hitch.
    !

  • @keithhooper6123
    @keithhooper6123 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Never very common in the UK,and being many years since I have seen one ,in fact ,don't think I have ever seen one. ,except a. crane.

  • @DoanldRounds-ig8kd
    @DoanldRounds-ig8kd 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Miss those old yard goats trucks

  • @motorhomeman1949
    @motorhomeman1949 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Interesting stuff! I've seen a handful of half cab trucks used for cranes and cement mixers and such, but never a long haul truck.

  • @stevesutton1991
    @stevesutton1991 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why is it shocking? Not wasting my time.

  • @oldpete3153
    @oldpete3153 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Half-shacks came out back in the day when there was little to no regard for a driver's comfort or safety. I work the industry back in the day and have first hand experience and knowledge with regards to these abortions.

  • @cuvautoofficial
    @cuvautoofficial 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    2:12, 3:13

  • @williamhauser7156
    @williamhauser7156 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i think it was Mason steel that had a half cab truck to deliver long i beams to support the floor joist. This was in the 1980's.

  • @maplemanz
    @maplemanz 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yard dogs.

  • @jaygraham5407
    @jaygraham5407 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    L series Mercedes. What a pain to work on the engine

  • @Tivis7
    @Tivis7 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bot

  • @user-so2ni3lq1x
    @user-so2ni3lq1x 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wtf

  • @s0nnyburnett
    @s0nnyburnett 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    AI narrated 👎👎

    • @mountainofautofacts
      @mountainofautofacts  12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There is no possibility to voice the video with a live voice now, as the channel develops everything will be. But the videos will be interesting and informative.

    • @marcusdamberger
      @marcusdamberger 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's suspected he lifted this video from another foreign language channel and redubbed it with English using the AI voice. Probably why it has odd sentence structure. i.e. google translate and dump it into AI robot voice.. down vote 👎

  • @jay1182
    @jay1182 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Terminal tractors are the only ones still around and cement mixers

    • @MikeDCWeld
      @MikeDCWeld 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      There are airplane fueling trucks with the extended 2 seat half-cab setup. The right side has a lift to bring the fueler to the wing for fueling.

    • @jay1182
      @jay1182 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@MikeDCWeld interesting