Red Horse

Well top one is a single rear-and bottom one must be too judging by the spring hangar-size of those bodies they must have been hauling "farm goods"? And whenever I see a "spotlight" I say.."retired fire chassis'? although WB looks short for that? In any case they don't look that bad. too bad they are just sitting.

Ah- wrong city- I'm thinking I'm looking up from New Haven. Hubbard Park is Meriden.

And that Mt. would be East Rock?

Cut up? or modified? It still is a "fire truck"-sort of😎? or maybe I'm thinking of the wrong truck.

Good thought Jim. Whatever, the time should be publicized. I had raised the question a week or so ago and no one ever responded. I like the AM time slot but whatever as long as it is posted ahead of time so everyone can plan.

Matt- Brooklyn 2020 for sure! Looking VERY good.

Well on the positive side the beautiful DM-800 single axle dump parked on front row (gray/blue/black) is Merc's most recent job. This glider will be done the right way for sure.

And this same family had another B there that they did that was equally as nice.

It is now about 15 miles from my house where it will "morph" into a tandem and go back to work! Merc is a talented guy.

Agree-and mug shots at Watts tent at noon!

For sure guy on right is city employee. As for the Autocar "rep", must be from the local dealer-and he doesn't look like he wants to be there😩. He also probably didn't read the memo that says...."Before presenting plaque to recipient, attach appropriate inscription".

Here is a good one that puts things in perspective IMG_4500 (1).PNG D-Day.pdf

Well I would agree with that too-but I would bet spokes are not even available as a regular production option today with all the class 7 and 8 builders. Maybe 10 years ago here in NE you could always find in dealer inventory a new Mack speced for a heavy dump application with spokes. Not so today.

Hah-I didn't say anything about.."what runs true". I'm saying what looks good on an old beast-IMO😎

FOR SURE!

BEAUTY-JUST NEEDS SPOKES ON THAT FRONT AXLE!

Petty cash-compared to the fact they are getting all of our commuter rail car business.

The number of direct report stats speaks volumes about why some of this is being done. Ford apparently still has to catch on to the fact that flatter org charts are cost effective-assuming of course you have the right people

Well after a lot of work Rich and his Rat Rod made their first show! Looking good!

Kind of late for me to be asking this question but what is best gear lube for a Duplex (TRD 720) and a CRD-62 Rear

Just got back from driving through an Altech installation facility here in Lancaster MA. Small facility with I think like no more than six installation bays. They must have around 75 new F-550 (mostly Power Strokes and all white) in the yard and ONE 5500 Ram. thought by now the new GM/Navistars in 4500/5500 range would be showing up but not the case. As for class 7 and 8's Mostly F'liners with a large number of Internationals. Even a few KW's and Western stars. Interesting that there were always F-750's there in the old days when you could get a Cummins or a Cat in them with an Allison. No doubt the utility industry does NOT think a lot of the new 750 Power Stroke/ Torque shift combo in the higher weight classes. Class 5? Ford continues to rule-at least by what you see in this Altech yard

Dave Mauro's B-8(7?) also has the hydraulic set up.

Love it-except for that rounded off snout. Brink back the DK look. But one thing that is great from a safety perspective-as many of us have posted, these light groupings where the turn signal is in the same housing as the headlights leave a lot to be desired. the visibility of that turn signal is lost. Bring back the "lollypop"! then the idiot that is trying to get by you on the right as you make a wide swing for a right hand turn has one more blinking light in his face. Granted- that lollypop will cost you .00045 mpg because of wind resistance.😎

It was my understanding that when Ford did the Daimler deal, along with the 10 year no compete, all the tooling went to Daimler. Now Roadway, check the box....From your earlier post.....Not to change the subject, but to this day Ford's abrupt exit of the heavy truck market after designing a whole new series of vehicles for it has to be the most bizarre thing I have ever seen a major manufacturer ever do. Did someone not get the memo? Wonder if there wasn't more to the story. Now you are posting that it was the right thing or words to that effect. So which is it? Again I allude to the fact that this was NOT a blind decision to spend a fortune on HN-80. Are you saying Ford had no financial analysts that did not beat the shit out of this subject before senior management signed off? Do you really think that they were clueless as to how much they could make on say 200,000 HD PICK UPS a year vs 50,000 class 7 and 8 trucks? I don't think so. But I believe when HN-80 was committed the guys at the top were comfortable with the return on heavy trucks and felt it was an integral part of Ford. And I'm sure when that decision was made, there were plenty of "car guys" who had no use for big trucks. All of a sudden Jac the Knife is on the scene and guess who had his ear? Those car guys I would bet. And from all the dumb ass moves he made, my guess is he could very easily paint a picture as to why this was such a good move. I think it goes back to the theory of profitability along product lines. Are there some product lines in ANY company that do better than others? For sure. Do some companies bail out on less profitable products to concentrate on their "core business"? For sure. But not all managements subscribe to that theory. If that were the case perhaps John Deere would only need yellow or green paint!😎 At least that is how I see it-an opinion of course. Final opinion-if Ford made a mistake, they should have truly concentrated on the vocational market-and I include the fleet linehaul market to the ABF's ConWays, etc of the era in that vocational mix. The true "owner operator "large car" market? They should have let that be because Paccar could build the biggest pile of shit and those guys would stand around and say.."isn't it beautiful". And I'm not saying they are crap -I'm just saying you will never get the majority of those guys out of a Pete or KW.

Thx Hayseed-no clue these guys existed.