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And that 440,000 still leaves the majority of the 1,000,000 kilometer-warranty for the owner driver.

The truck has only ever done single work, according to the seller.

It’s got a lot of comfort features, like leather Bostrom seats, a big stereo system, a refridgerator under the bed, a TV / DVD player. It’s got a lot of chrome stainless and LED lights.

The bumper is custom, and it has 8 inch stacks and air intakes, that roof wing you see in the picture, drop visor, and it’s been well-maintained, accordin to the seller, and he has the full service history. The asking price was $165,000 for this 2010 Freightliner Argosy 110. You can check it out for sale at Fully Loaded or, if its sold, see what that vehicles trader has for sale nowadays (click here).

Custom Motorhomes

These luxury motorhomes are all made by one custom company (although they do other types of vehicles besides RVing as well). It’s the same custom motor coach builder that did the coppery brown International we featured on here a while ago — Loyalty Mobile Innovations.

With a wide variety of vehicle conversion types, the ones most interesting to you guys probably will be the custom coaches. They seem to use mostly International chassis, but they also have some Freightliners and others under their custom RV belt.

To learn more about the options you can look at when you’re planning out one of these custom motorhomes, click here.

Now I’ll write a bit about the company itself. It’s a Tennessee company, first of all. They’re in Gallatin, middle Tennessee, and their main staff seems to be three people, although they have it looks like a whole crew of people — over a dozen — working for them to build these vehicles. It’s Joe Loy who’s president, David Macet who does engineering and development, and Scarlet Morgan who does the finances and the books.

And the company itself says their biggest advantage is their highly-skilled workforce and the reputation they’ve built for quality vehicles.

Oh, for those who might want to know about the other vehicles they’re working on, they do command vehicles, swat and outreach, in addition to their custom motorhomes). Visit Loyalty Mobile Innovations (click here).

Motorhome Fulltiming

This motorhome is a fulltiming coach. It’s a 2005 Alpine Coach used by a couple who have been fulltiming across America for the past two years.

They’re David and Stilla Hobden, a couple who’ve been married for 32 years and now that their children are grown up and David retired from Military and government service, they’ve been travelling all over in their motorhome, photographing their trip.

How many of you RV owners out there have thought about fulltiming? Or at least taking long trips in your motor home, or maybe converting your semi tractor or truck so you can RV as you continue to work?

Well, if anyone’s inerested in seeing a bit about the motorhome adventures of this couple who offered to share a bit of their experience with the internet world. you can visit their site (click here) called Urban Escape Vehicle.

The two photos are from a lot of photos of RV parks and outdoor locations they’ve visited. The ocean shot is Highway 10 on the Oregon Coast. The desert shot (with ocean way behind their motor coach) is White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.

Fifth Wheel Weekend Trailer

This travel toy hauler is a 40-foot CL4005 by Weekend Warrior. It has an comfortable looking interior and an enclosed garage.

We feature a lot of big luxury motorhomes and converted semi tractors, but from what I hear fifth wheels like this toy hauler trailer are still the most common way people get out in the great outdoors with their families, friends or even to get away by themselves and get their lungs aired out in nature.

I’d be curious what you all think of travel trailers. Is it as important that there are luxury trailers out there? or do people just like that they make travelling with some comfort available to the regular person?

This one in the picture is one I found on an RVs for sale site — RV Trader.

They put it up for just under $22,000 U.S. and it was located in Texas.

Obviously its a used trailer. It has an AC unit, levelling jacks, and is self-contained.

It also has 2 slide outs which would add a lot of space to its 40 foot length. The garage is 12 feet of it.

For sleeping, this travel trailer has a queen-sixed bed, an upper queen bunk and a sofa bed, so all together it’s made to be able to sleep six people.

It also has a bathroom with a stand-up shower, a medium sized refridgerator, a burner stove, microwave, and sink, and 50 gallon water tanks.

Visit RV Trader (click here).

Double Sleepers and More

You all have probably noticed these double sleeper trucks from past decades, where there are all kinds of configurations, two small sleepers attached to the chassis in tandem, or sometimes two big ones, or a bigger sleeper and a drom box together behind the cab. All kinds of configurations.

It may be that Tyrone Malone’s “Super Truck” started the trend of these double sleepers, according to Wolfcreek Steve, and others have agreed that Malone’s truck was one of the first they’d seen with this configuration, although it might not have been the very first to do it.

What do you guys think is better? Two sleeper boxes or just one? You see quite a few older photos with the two-sleeper arrangement, and not too many new ones, but maybe that’s just because now there are so many companies that specialize in truck conversions like ARI, Cowboy Coach, Kinglsey, and a lot of other custom sleeper companies, that less people double up on regular sleepers.

This question was discussed several years ago by some of the members of the American Truck Historical Society (visit them some time, click here).

And for those of you who have used the double-sleeper configuration, do you use one for sleeping, one for space sort of thing?

What are these trucks?

(I just started using a photo editor program, so I’ve begun “restoring” a lot of older photos, that have weathered with age, which can make old photos look quite new again sometimes.)

Blue with blue stripes COE: Peterbilt owned by Wilson and Wanda Miller when the photo was taken, shared by Jolly
Beige-grey cabover with red-brown-orange stripes: Peterbilt 352H put together by Consolidated in Taxachusetts. The sleeper is a Double Eagle — shared by Jolly, and identified by Big John.
White with blue cabover: unknown Kenworth, shared by Cam
Burgundy cabover: unknown Kenworth, shared by Big John
Yellow cabover: shared by Big John
Purple Cabover: unknown Kenworth, shared by Big John
Red conventional with white/yellow stripes: unknown Kenworth, shared by Big John
Red conventional with 3-bunk (2 are combined) sleeper arrangement: unknown Kenworth, shared by 68CRACKERBOX

Post your own double (or more) sleeper unit trucks here and we’ll add them in if you want. Some have already been sent and added, click here.

Future Trucking Industry Based on Hover-Trucks?

Is the future of trucking based on a flying or hovering vehicle like these “aero-rigs”? That is the possibility explored by vehicle concept artist riftroamer.

He has designed a series of flying / hovering future transport trucks (if “truck” is still the word when there are no wheels involved. Some of his designs tow flatbed trailers, some tank trailers and some are loaded with square-ish freight parcels. (See riftroamer’s design portfolio here)

The tractor itself — or tractor-plane — is called a “prime mover”.

The designer also works on space flight people transporters and other futuristic concepts, but he also works on ground vehicles and intends to put out a series of water, ground and air vehicle concept designs.

By the way, this future truck was partly inspired by the sci-fi Starringer Trilogy by Jogn DeChancie, riftroamer said.

With the hover aspect of this vehicle, it will be interesting to see how people work out the lifting engineering.

On the one hand, we are only now gettin hoverboards that can lift a human weight for several minutes, and they are giant boxes using embedded rotating (helicopter-like) blades. These can float above concrete and other surfaces, though. Another technological solution is a magnetic undersurface to a vehicle and a magnetic surface — this is also being done with hoverboards.

It is possible to lift huge weights with air though, as is demonstrated with hovercraft. Hovercraft also use a propulsion method to move horizontally (in addition to the pressurization system under their skirts that push them up above the surface). The heaviest hovercraft can carry up to 130 tons of cargo. It’s a Russian Zubr class LCAC. It’s max displacement is 535 tons. The Russians also make the largest civil hovercraft and the helicopter that can lift the most, the Mil mi-26.

This Cabover Delivers Sleepers

These bright cabovers run for a company that delivers another kind of sleeper than we often write about here — recycled hardwood sleepers (and new ones, too, though for their business I think they provably deal more in recycled). This semi belongs to a garden company in Melbourne that delivers the railway ties (another word for “sleeper” is ties, and we usually use ties here in North America) as well as all other kinds of garden supplies.

This cabover rig is called by its onwers “Truck ‘n’dog trailer” and it’s a 2.7 meter wide, 3.5-4 meter high, 16-19 meter long load space (which translates to 10-30 cubic meters of heavy product, according to the company) per trailer.

With the two trailers these can haul around 50 cubic meters for a delivery.

They also have a number of other tractor trailers. They have a whole fleet, all painted in a paint scheme like this cabover pictured above.

They have small “tipping utes” as well as small, medium and large semi units.

The company is called “daisy’s Garden Supplies” and they have locations in Ringwood East, Carrum Downs, and Ashwood, Victoria. Visit them (click here).

Luxury Motorhome

This luxury motorhome project is one I’ll be interested to find out people’s opinion on, because it’s not like the style of luxurious motorhome interiors we often feature, with lots of high-finished real-wood ornamented cabinets, big leather couches, and all. This one uses a minimalist design.

It’s an Iveco Eurocargo day cab chassis, and it was customized by a company that has recently shown up on our radar, Majestic Motorhomes.

It’s their latest custom motor home project, and they’re aims in building this one were to find an appropriate balance between the space allowed by the interior, the budget to build a luxury motor home, and the finish (the exterior look and interior furnishings).

This motor home is built to accomodate two people. It has a master bedroom with a queen-sized bed, lots of cabinets, recessed TVs, invisible speakers, satellite for the TV, a small work desk (office) behind the dinette, full sized gas cooktop, microwave. It also has a washer/dryer, large bathroom with full-sized shower, heated towel-rack.

It’s 36 feet long (11 meters). It has storage bins around the bottom of the outside of the RV unit with LED lighting. Slide out barbeque and hot/cold taps beside it.

For drinking and food preparation, it has fresh water tanks and a double-filtered water system for the drinking water.

The interior / exterior is powered by a modern dual-battery system with a 3.5KW inverter and a quiet remote-start generator.

Majestic Motorhomes is in Vega, New South Wales, and you can get a hold of them to find out about their motor home projects and services at 02-6492-5560.