Gerald Lee Wasko founded his G.L. Wasko & Sons trucking business around 1977, and the owner-operator’s first truck was a Detroit V12-powered 1975 White Freightliner Powerliner cabover, “Dirty Dozen.” ...

Freightliner didn’t invent the cabover truck. In fact, the very earliest trucks were what we today would call a “cabover” design in that the engine was located directly under the driver’s seat. But ...