Red Horse

Hippy-what would you do with another one???

We need a chart to keep the Hake/Barnhart/Marino deal straight😎And I guess add Bay Crane to that??

Wow-Look at the graph-1982 class 6 and 7 sales. Ford-33.2%, GM-30.6%, International -30%, Imports 6.2% Boy have times changed.

Rich-that truck made its debut at our first show at Fairgrounds.

WellI would agree with James J. It's a vocational truck! You can still have a sloping hood with decent visibility but square it off! No need for an A -car to look like Snoopy. Then again in terms of visibility, the manufacturers spend a lot of money to provide that, and then the a-holes spend all kinds of money for drop down visors and they drive with the seat on the floor. You see one coming at you and think.."oh autonomous truck-don't see a driver i that thing🤪

Shocker! I guess the drop down window just wasn't enough😎

For sure the small paving contractors. Don't need a live tandem for what is usually on highway use.

JB- to me that does not look like an offset cab-look at air cleaner. Good looking regardless-lot of engine inside that cab!

Have to disagree. This engine will I think be a big seller-in particular in the F-600, 650 and 750. Think of the guys that need the power but don't run the annual mileage to capture the MPG savings the Power Stroke would offer. It will probably sell for about 5 grand less than the Power Stroke. At 350 HP and 468 lb ft of torque this thing has more HP than the old 401, 477 and 534 Super Duty and is topped only by the 534's torque rating of 481 pd ft. Although I think the old SD put that torque out at like 1800. Can someone explain to me how the torque and HP number can be max at same RPMs? Think someone read a news release wrong.

Thx Kevin, Impressive

Ok Jim- so how do you flip it? I went to edit and no luck

Match sticks-assume for paper industry? Iveco is a beast in any case-where are they built?

dealer near me currently has a 750 they are advertising as a 26,000 lb. gvw

Nice and I like the 56 "Big Job" in the back bay.

Great news. Take your time in setting it up. My barn is 19 years old-still planning😎

Everest-too bad we won't see it here. Then again Ichecked out a 2020 Explorer yesterday. VERY nice-starting with the RWD bias and north/south engine layout.

Typical Ford move. Announce something but do little to hype it. Like the customer is supposed to know about it. then again looking at the gas MPG vs the diesel's hard to justify it.

Kevin-IMO snow balls chance in hell as far as the mixer market in US. At least here in Northeast front discharge rules-and I would bet that is true for rest of country as well. Is there still a need for rear discharge in the fleet? Yes-like for those big pours where truck backs up to a big pump and the load is gone. Anything else contractors don't want anything but front discharge- truck pulls onto site, point to first drop point and concrete is flowing within seconds. Did my share working my way through school standing with a rake or a big Jackson contractor wheelbarrow at the ass end of a B-81 waiting for the stuff to come down the chute. Then holding the chute and watching the driver in his mirrors as he backed around the forms to next point. Just no comparison to what a front discharge can do today.

Thx for posting Jim. It was quite a display seeing them all lined up. Talk about a commitment to the show. I would not want the fuel bill. Very generous guy I would say. So you guys that are in the area. His regular trucks that are "in service" have this same clean look?

Great article-thx for posting. One quote I remember he made-I think it was in the Newsweek or Time stories the week the Mustang came out in '64- "You have to remember whose name is on the building". Obviously at some point he forgot about that.

Everytime I see a shot of one of these log trucks I say.."How do they stay upright!.?? These NW state log trucks plus the trucks up in Maine- RD-800's, DM-800's with what I assume are pulp logs that look like the load is about 15ft.high!

They were nice Jim. But today? These were cummins 350's. Mass 99,000lb permits (104,000lbs) By today's standards.."no way-not enough power". By the way-the "test". I was at Apple store with my new Mac Book. I can never post pix on this site. I managed to post this as it was on my desk top. Pulling from my "Photos" albums? No luck. this new Mac works differently from old. Guess I'll be spending more time with Apple Support.

guys just testing

Jim -looks mint! Where and when did you snap that? do I see Londonderry on flap? Early?

OD- Outstanding-for sure now I know I was asleep given the number of trucks I missed!