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Just wasn't a design feature back when they first produced. Back in the late 60's and early 70's you where lucky if you had a block heater even on a class 8 rig.
Mine is mounted right before the turbo. With the fuel at the setting it was when I got the truck no matter how hard I would push it I couldn't get to 1000deg. I need to turn up the fuel on mine but I didn't want to do that until I could monitor the temp.
You answered your own question
The jacka?? most likely didn't want to get stuck behind a truck so took the chance of getting run over buy said truck instead. We can only hope he hasn't reproduced.