The International Harvester Sightliner Definitely Fits In The WTF? Files, But Visibility Was Great!

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  • admin
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    • Apr 2011
    • 39194
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    The International Harvester Sightliner Definitely Fits In The WTF? Files, But Visibility Was Great!

    (Words by Greg Rourke) From the WTF? files comes a truck International Harvester designated the ACO and ACOF series, better known as the International Harvester Sightliner.      First question that comes to mind is, why? Several reasons. First, in the middle on the twentieth century we had strict length laws on trucks. Often it was […]

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    • Dan Barlow
      ZF6 Bangshifter
      • Dec 2007
      • 10576
      #2
      Until today the only pic I've ever seen of one of these wss a walk thru box truck in the movie Real Steel . I figured it was a a Australia only International Harvester truck .
      Previously HoosierL98GTA

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        • silver_bullet
          No Life Outside BangShift.com
          • Jun 2009
          • 24193
          #3
          Have seen one on numerous occasions at the Walcott Trucker's Jamboree at the Iowa 80 truckstop in Walcott, IA.... it is an annual event held every year where you see all kinds of rare oddities...
          Patrick & Tammy
          - Long Haulin' 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014...Addicting isn't it...??

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            • Deaf Bob
              No Life Outside BangShift.com
              • Feb 2012
              • 19255
              #4
              Mill I used to work for had a few short loggers, easier to not go off the landing.. Conventional cabs were dropping the front axle off, Probably be cheaper to add more rock to the landings.

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                • Barry Donovan
                  No Life Outside BangShift.com
                  • Jul 2009
                  • 16928
                  #5
                  not one moron mentioned the heat for the north.
                  condensation and freezing to death.

                  All cabovers were nightmares below 50F.
                  the front piece of sheet metal was one layer thick.

                  I am very grateful the circus midgets got out of trucking.
                  they are in the air force today playing bombs, but hey...
                  extinction takes time.
                  Previously boxer3main
                  the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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                    • Dan Barlow
                      ZF6 Bangshifter
                      • Dec 2007
                      • 10576
                      #6
                      There is no heat from the north ! 😊
                      Previously HoosierL98GTA

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