# Cab over tractors **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [December 2, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209 "2010-12-02T03:34:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chopper55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@chopper55](https://community.cartalk.com/u/chopper55)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209/1 "2010-12-02T03:34:05Z")
what happened and why I don’t see cabover tractors on the road anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209/2 "2010-12-02T03:44:31Z")
The old length restrictions were lifted. ---
**Author:** ![mark9207](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@mark9207](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mark9207)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209/3 "2010-12-02T03:48:11Z")
All of the cabovers I have seen in recent years are day cabs. Sleeper cabs are becoming increasingly popular, and practical, so you are seeing many more sleeper cabs, which are typically “long nose” tractors. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209/4 "2010-12-02T04:27:43Z")
Maybe truckers bought into the ads for REO tractors and gave up their White cab-over-engine tractors. Do any of you remember these REO truck ads from the 1950’s? Bed bumpy? Oatmeal lumpy? Wife grumpy? Climb into your REO and relax. ``` or ``` Engine slow? Earning power low? Tain’t your friend but your foe? Trade it in for a REO. ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209/5 "2010-12-02T04:32:45Z")
A bit of aerodynamics involved too. ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209/6 "2010-12-02T04:53:39Z")
Maybe there is more space to maneuver these days. It doesn’t seem so. Maybe those rigs would jackknife more often. Nothing worse than folding a big rig, except for what usually happens half a second later. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209/7 "2010-12-02T06:19:21Z")
Cabovers were only bought to comply with restrictive weight laws, They rode harder handled worse and cost more. No one liked them but there were many sleeper cabovers. The Federal Government finally changed the law so that the length restrictions were only on the trailer(s). ---
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209/8 "2010-12-03T01:31:12Z")
Several factors added up to this. 1. length restrictions eased up 2. cabovers did not have as nice a ride as convertionals 3. you certainly could not rest in the sleeper while somebody was servicing the engine 4. husband and wife teams got popular and it gets difficult for older folks to climb up the side of a COE 5. aerodynamics 6.blah 7.blah 8.blah 9.etc ---
**Author:** ![azimuth361](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@azimuth361](https://community.cartalk.com/u/azimuth361)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cab-over-tractors/58209/9 "2011-02-09T13:46:02Z")
Asked and answered. [http://community.cartalk.com/posts/list/2146445.page](http://community.cartalk.com/posts/list/2146445.page)