It's a Team's Life

Our 2012 Cascadia

We first saw the truck as a day cab with very long frame rails.   Bob drove the truck out around a bit and we were thrilled with the ability to hold a normal tone conversation.   I believe in the future we will be able to talk while going down the road and not have to raise our voices.

 

The first stage of changing the truck into an expediter was to cut the back out of the cab.   This was a process I did not want to watch, the cutting was handled with expertise by Don Bentz, Bolt Custom Trucks. 

We were able to see the sleeper while in the framing stage and Don and Jeff Jones showed us how the sleeper is made and the engineering involved.   Seeing the skeleton of the sleeper and then seeing the pictures of the progression will give us peace of mind while sleeping in the sleeper going down the road.

 

Our cabinet frames where in neat piles on the shop floor waiting to be mounted to the sleeper walls.   The cabinets become part of the framework and will not be coming off the walls to fly around if we are ever in an accident.   After they were attached to the walls the pretty part begins.   We did not see the finished product until we arrived at MATS and it looks very nice.

 

After the sleeper was mounted to the frame, the truck and sleeper had a date with a paint booth.   After the painting the Supreme box was mounted on the truck and it was finally looking like an expediter.

On the way to MATS the new FedEx Custom Critical signs were installed as well as the QUALCOMM.   After MATS the truck went back to Fort Wayne to have a few final touches and to be cleaned up.   I wish I could have had a counter on the truck as people passed through the door.   It was a happening place and the comments were very positive.  

A huge thanks to Don Bentz, Bolt Custom Trucks and Jeff Jones, Stoops Specialty Trucks and of the pictures they took.   This experience with building a truck has been awesome.   Looking forward now to the next step of putting the Cascadia to work!