I dunno, there's something to be said about a truck where you can take my pickup, and everything my pickup can _tow_, stack it all in the bed and not be over your payload limit.
I'm not sure what exactly that something is, but it's there...
Truth told, though, this Navistar isn't all that new a concept; Freightliner's already been selling vehicles similar to this for years. Instead of having a truck bed, they've got some body work down along that area of the frame so it's not fugly like a semi-truck, and they're sold to haul travel trailers, horse trailers, or auto transports, with room for four passengers comfortably they make excellent long-haul tow rigs for those sorts of activities. You sometimes see them at SCCA road races or campgrounds, I suspect the really die-hard boat-towers might use something like this for their monster barely-fit-on-a-highway yacht, as well.
I suspect anyone who can afford such a rig, mind, has something else they drive to work regularly, and the monster Freightliner (which generally sells with the same Cummins diesel you can buy in a 2500 or 3500 series Dodge Ram) only goes out when the trailer does...
'Course, me, I'm not gonna be truly satisfied until I have a Canyonero... :)
From The Simpsons. Imagine Hank Williams Jr. singing:
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five? Canyonero! Canyonero! Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown Canyonero! Canyonero! Hey, hey! Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, Sixty five tons of American pride! Canyonero! Canyonero! Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero! Canyonero! She blinds everybody with her super high beams She's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero! Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!
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I'm not sure what exactly that something is, but it's there...
Truth told, though, this Navistar isn't all that new a concept; Freightliner's already been selling vehicles similar to this for years. Instead of having a truck bed, they've got some body work down along that area of the frame so it's not fugly like a semi-truck, and they're sold to haul travel trailers, horse trailers, or auto transports, with room for four passengers comfortably they make excellent long-haul tow rigs for those sorts of activities. You sometimes see them at SCCA road races or campgrounds, I suspect the really die-hard boat-towers might use something like this for their monster barely-fit-on-a-highway yacht, as well.
I suspect anyone who can afford such a rig, mind, has something else they drive to work regularly, and the monster Freightliner (which generally sells with the same Cummins diesel you can buy in a 2500 or 3500 series Dodge Ram) only goes out when the trailer does...
'Course, me, I'm not gonna be truly satisfied until I have a Canyonero... :)
-JDF
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Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Hey, hey!
Twelve yards long, two lanes wide,
Sixty five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
She blinds everybody with her super high beams
She's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine
Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!
Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!
-JDF
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