Right Hand Drive trucks...

[nickbtubas]

what would a person use a right hand drive truck in the US or in north america??
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2001-...QQcmdZViewItem


this totally confused me

[Kranky]

There are vocational uses for RH drive in the US, such as garbage collection, mail delvery etc. But I have no idea why anyone would want a RH drive OTR tractor unless they plan on exporting it to Australia, or Great Britain.

[PackRatTDI]

There are vocational uses for RH drive in the US, such as garbage collection, mail delvery etc. But I have no idea why anyone would want a RH drive OTR tractor unless they plan on exporting it to Australia, or Great Britain.

Applications there would be limited as well because their length laws include the tractor. Which is why they use cabovers almost exclusively in GB and have rather short sleepers on conventional tractors in Australia. It might find a buyer for a private carrier with a specialized trailer but for regular OTR work, it would be a hard sell in those countries.

It also might find a buyer in Africa.

[silvan]

Did you find the link to the company that made the thing? They specialize in RH conversions of American trucks for export to RH countries.

While this seems weird and unlikely, it might explain the poster in my son's room. It's a blue W900L tricked out with chicken lights galore, and gobs of extra chrome, but it has a UK license plate on it. I always wondered about that poster.

...Or so I thought. I wonder what I'm remembering here. There are no UK tags on that poster.

Oh. Right. He had a kiddie photo-illustrated book about big trucks with a similar looking blue KW in it, and that was the one with UK all over it, pulling a trailer with three axles. Everything clearly European, except the bizarre American large car.