Last week, I mentioned that Stuttgart engineer Manfred Steinwinter was influenced in his load-carrying design after seeing the Büssing Decklaster, another cantilevered cabunder from 1965. According to onlinetruckers.org, both front axles steered, and the whole rig ran on air suspension.

Büssing, which claims to have built the world's first six-cylinder truck engine in 1909, was around from 1903 to 1971, when it was taken over by MAN. I've yet to find out exactly how long Büssing produced the Decklaster, but it seems to have lasted beyond the takeover. The one at left seems to appear at truck shows around Europe.

I also happened to come across reference to several other cantilevered cabunders, including this Butler Brothers timber truck at BigLorryBlog.

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