Kenworth K500 On The Market For More Than A Decade By the time it was due to be retired in August 2020, Kenworth's last cabover semi-truck model, the flat face K500, had spent 14 long years on the ...

But the K100's cab-over-engine design shared the same drawbacks as other similarly built semi-trucks. Cab-over semi trucks were typically noisy, as the driver sat above the engine.

Kenworth, for one, stopped producing on-the-road cabover semi-trucks for the U.S. market in 2002 after it discontinued the iconic K100 line but kept on building the K500 severe-service off-highway ...