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Favorite Comment: Fixer D. says, “Everybody needs to have a truck like this (if they happen to haul bulk pallets of lead ingots on the weekends).”
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Holy Crap!!! Autobots transform!!!
Wonder what does wires are running to…
Wish I knew what state this is in…
Kind of badass if you ask me
@b.
Because nobody outside the US owns a vehicle.
I’d say a state of disbelief.
This “truck” is soooooo cool
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I sort of think that bed is just sitting there… on a whim.
however… this idea has potential.
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F**k global warming! My truck company maximizes gas consumption per pound moved.
Nothing new there… Freightliner has made a pickup truck with a big rig cab for years now… Jay Leno owns one. They call it their “SportChassis” line.
Just google it, they are pretty cool!
Red Green would be so proud!
@mihaak
my guess is that those are the hydraulic (or pneumatic?) brake lines for the trailer it hauls
the “wires” are air lines that would connect to the trailer that truck should be hauling. tractor trailers use air actuated brakes.
this is the DIY version
nice one
I wonder if they use the truck to carry around Franken-Chair….
Big rigs get better mileage without the trailers, than with them, and parking is a whole lot easier. For an owner/operator who does their own maintenance, sometimes all they need is the ability to move a pickup load of stuff. Sure, a tank trailer might be able to carry 8,000 gallons of milk, but it can’t carry an 80 gallon upright air compressor home to the workshop.
I assume it doesn’t take very long to take the pickup bed off, and put the normal hitch assembly back on.
@BoringTroll
This comment is scary.
International CXT is another commercial offering. I’ve seen them in persion. They are not quite as amateurish as the one in this story, but it’s comical in its testosterone-poisoned futility.
Everybody needs to have a truck like this (if they happen to haul bulk pallets of lead ingots on the weekends).
This still counts as a light truck at the DMV, right?
@JD theres also the International MXT
@b.
Michigan?
If you look through the wheel wells of the box, the fifth wheel hitch is still in place. Most likely (and logically) used as an attachment point to hold the box on to the truck.
As a side note, those lines between the cab and box,
Red and Blue are air lines. Red is used to supply raw compressed air to the trailer at 120 PSI.
Blue is used to control the brakes on the trailer, pressures anywhere between 0-120 PSI depending on application pressure at the brake treadle valve (foot pedal)
The green line is the electrical connection to run the lighting on the trailer.
If this box is indeed attached via the fifth wheel, one could install and remove the box in less than 15 min. Ingenious.
Set that thing on some 32″ low profile chrome spinners, and make that bed into a subwoofer box and I’m in! That’s Ridin’ Big-Carbon-Footprint Dirty!
Well, I suspect no-one outside of the USA would own a vehicle like this one, such a combination of kludge and excessively large pickup truck.
That said, I actually think this is pretty badass. It would look better without the air divertor on top of the cab though.
@ dono1 FTW!!!
Demetrius, I’ve actually seen spinners on a rig before. Really. And they were nice ones.
@ Charlene,
It’s not that I don’t think someone in another country would do this. They can (and probably have). The truck(s) look like a Ford and a Freightliner and a kludge like this just looks like rural America (my place of origin).
screw 5th wheel! I want a 6th wheel!!!
Look it’s the Interford 15000 by Binford Tools!
@Zaku
Not enough duct tape for Red Green.
Provided you can remove the truck bed, it’s not a bad idea. It’s space that would have otherwise gone to waste, between hauling jobs. Hopefully the lights on it work.
Could the bed be made to flip up into that area behind the cab when not in use? Or, does the trailer need that space to turn corners?
It looks to me like the electrical cord is plugged into the front of the box, making me think that they wired the lights.
The trailer, especially if it has a refrigeration unit mounted on the front, would need that space.
It might just be a pickup truck for really enormous drivers…
Its just an International CXT wannabee.
It’s in South Carolina@b.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38493348@N00/3638732710
Icelandic truck…
@Preacher
I’d be interested to know how heavy the box on an F150 really is. I would guess 4 guys could lift it off the 5th wheel hitch?
Ha! Had to note that web ad at the bottom of this page? Ford Commercial Truck. Woo hoo to content-based ads.
i wonder what optimus prime has to say about that
This is what happens when optumus prime gets drunk…..freakish love children…lol
The driver of this “truck” probably thinks he is so cool- everywhere he goes people point and smile now…FAIL!
@Charlene
nahh its just no1 outside the U.S.is this cool