If the truck looks familiar, that’s Steve and Doris Bixler’s long-running 1989 Freightliner Cabover, the Lady in Red, as a scale model that Bixler’s sons had made for him with hopes of ...

Conceptually, says Ed Harwell, owner of the 1988 cabover Freightliner FLT86 (the 86 refers to the bunk size) you’ll see in the video above, the truck represents “what you might see in a war ...

Freightliner didn’t invent the cabover truck. In fact ... In 1951, Freightliner signed a deal with White Motor Company to rebrand its trucks as “White Freightliner” models.