re: Cab Over Semi 18 Wheeler's

Length law changes and the fact they were basically death traps in a crash made them unpopular. My father, owns a few rigs as part of his trucking business, told me that back in the 70's and 80's, truckers called them suicide cabs. The cab over designs had a tendency in a crash to flip forward and smash the front of the cab into the pavement, thus throwing the operator face first into the pavement.