The old thinking was the driver of a cabover was the first to arrive at the scene of the crash. Truckers had a bad image of them and they wanted a hood with a b

The old thinking was the driver of a cabover was the first to arrive at the scene of the crash. Truckers had a bad image of them and they wanted a hood with a big lump of iron between them and whatever they were plowing into. Old cab-overs were pretty much tin boxes and they were plentiful before the length laws in the USA were relaxed in the late 70's. After that happened the cabover in the USA died a pretty fast death and the only company to attempt a proper modern cabover design was Freightliner with their Argosy. Other than that maybe the Mack MH Ultraliner was decently modern introduced in the early 80's that replaced the F Model and WS series Cruiseliner.