Red Horse

"24".... not 24.5. Must be a misprint. If not I would like to know who is supplying them.

And I would imagine that "back in the day" , they were being loaded by cable shovels or backhoes. Add the stress of watching that bucket swing toward you-then again back then, operators were "operators"😎

12R-24 rear tires???

HG- THX! I did not look at this first time around. This guy really nails it. Also makes me think about the wisdom of shutting schools down for a month. Not a big issue if the household has a stay at home parent. But in this day and age those households are probably in the minority. Key point he raises is these young kids are least impacted so if I heard him right there is less of a case for doing this.

Take a look at what I posted the other day. Now if the stats in that article were false, end of story. If they are true, you can't argue with the math. My first thought was also.."bullshit". I'm afraid though the numbers that are being affected, are overwhelming the medical professions ability to treat. If we had a limitless supply of respirators, would not be as big an issue. But we don't. When this news first broke, I believe we were limiting flights TO China! WTF! We should have immediately banned all flights FROM China. China stonewalled this whole thing from the beginning. And now we find out we are dependent on China for a high percentage of our drugs! Let's see what we do about that now. "Well the left leaning Boston Globe had a big article yesterday covering all aspects of corona. In that article was a comparison of covid-19 vs the flu. As of March 11 there were 1039 confirmed cases in the US and 29 confirmed deaths . This was compared to an estimated 45 million cases of "flu" annually in US with "Up to 61,000" related deaths. So if you do an equation and using annual stats and the current 1039 number, we should have 1.4 deaths out of the 1039-not 29. They also had world wide stats and they say there are 121,000 confirmed cases and 4368 deaths. Doing the same math, they said there were 1 billion estimated "flu" cases annually worldwide, leading to 646,000 deaths. Doing the same math that says there should currently be 78 deaths world wide vs the 4368. As to the issue of secrecy, if idiots are out stocking up on toilet paper, just think of the panic that could set in if some facts are clearly understood. Our schools in my small town are closed today. With no reported cases that I know of. Is it the SAME as the flu? I don't think so. Is it the end of the world? Maybe for some who are elderly (ME!) and not in good health to begin with." By the way- update here in Mass. Our gov announced about 3 hrs ago. All restaurants closed except for take out meals, no gatherings greater than 25 people-means no movies- schools closed until April 7th (I may be wrong on that date-but it is an April date. Only retail open- drug stores and food. If this is no worse than the "flu", a huge number of businesses will be at risk of failing on a "whim".

And the replacement is.....???

Well Kevin I'll say it IS good looking-in particular the axle forward configuration. Just again a continuation of the decline of American builders though and it will be a matter of time before we will be left with one American class 8 builder not controlled by Europeans.

Honest man! But I would say not outrageous. I was on I-91 in Conn the other day and saw a Pete triaxle that had one that was curved downward to the windshield divider-my guess- 8" from the hood.

Well the left leaning Boston Globe had a big article yesterday covering all aspects of corona. In that article was a comparison of covid-19 vs the flu. As of March 11 there were 1039 confirmed cases in the US and 29 confirmed deaths . This was compared to an estimated 45 million cases of "flu" annually in US with "Up to 61,000" related deaths. So if you do an equation and using annual stats and the current 1039 number, we should have 1.4 deaths out of the 1039-not 29. They also had world wide stats and they say there are 121,000 confirmed cases and 4368 deaths. Doing the same math, they said there were 1 billion estimated "flu" cases annually worldwide, leading to 646,000 deaths. Doing the same math that says there should currently be 78 deaths world wide vs the 4368. As to the issue of secrecy, if idiots are out stocking up on toilet paper, just think of the panic that could set in if some facts are clearly understood. Our schools in my small town are closed today. With no reported cases that I know of. Is it the SAME as the flu? I don't think so. Is it the end of the world? Maybe for some who are elderly (ME!) and not in good health to begin with.

Very good Rich-but you forgot the drop down visor for the ultimate cool look.😎

Agree on the hood. I would think cab issue is a "non option"-that is where the economy of scale comes in. But the hood? Can't see why it has to be as "bulbous"-good word for it- as it is. How about it RR? Are there that many projections under that would preclude using a slimmer hood/fender design? Forget about appearance-just the savings in weight and improved visibility would I think justify a change. Remember when class 1-3 trucks had distinctive drop down fenders? Like 56 Fords and then the 57 came out and the hood was a square that extended out over the front wheels.

Thx Jim- every time you post a shot of some beauty I say to myself..better do less talking and more walking-and not just at Macungie! It is a beauty-as is the B 77!!

Jim- would you have a shot of that LTL-9000 that is parked next to the Big Horn in the back ground??

Look at it this way Rich-better that you spent money on a truck that earns vs the R model😎

For sure. That is what sucks about this whole electrification craze. Instead of it happening on its own and letting the market work it out, we are forced to subsidize a political agenda.

6.0? 6.4?

With the opening of the Work Truck Show today, Ford finally announces some good news with respect to 650/750. The 7.3 V-8 should be a big seller for class 6 and 7 operators who need the GVW and reasonable power but don't run the miles to justify the diesel premium https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2020/03/03/ford-marks-35-years-of-commercial-vehicle-leadership.html

Cabooses! I'm so old I remember early in my career dispatching and one stop was a Delaware & Hudson siding in Newburgh NY to fuel the stove in a caboose!

Gateway Terminals is a large bulk material handler in New Haven Conn. Outbound scrap steel is one material they handle. Not sure if they still use them but they had a bunch of those 8 wheeled Internationals and they would drive out onto the pier where the scrap ships we tied up. The cargo cranes had what looked like huge drag line buckets and the trucks would back into the buckets, dump the load, then the cranes would lift them up and dump into the ship. Quite an operation. How about it Blackdog-still doing it that way?

BH, Likewise. To my wife's dismay I saved most of my Mack national accounts calendars-same ones I'm sure that dealers/branches could purchase. So I asked "Siri" what years match 2020? Answer 1992. I'm now using my '92 Mack calendar again😎

But what will ultimately translate to North America? In any case they are good looking. But old school as I am, I look at all of these features as longer term maintenance nightmares. Or from another perspective, you don't "fix" anything in the future--you rip out the "bad" module and install the new one. Not a knock on Volvo-just the way of the world these days IMO.

Matt Almost 4 months to Brooklyn- any chance?

wow--well cared for! You won't see many New England trucks of that age looking like that

One thing for sure- like that separation of headlight and turn signal. should be a new federal standard to get turn signal out of same headlight bucket so you can SEE it