Red Horse

Well guys, I am ancient I guess. My copy was given to me by Homer Milliken with his business card glued to the inside flap; "National Accounts Mack Trucks Inc 350 Fifth Ave. New York, New York 10001" How about it KSC- when was that office shut down? In any case, agree great book

Kevin, The countryside in this part of New England has plenty of concrete ties stacked up from a huge failed experiment from about 20 years ago. Don't know what the cause of the failure was but they did n ot stay in service long. Instead of being cast as a typical square/rectangular shape they had raised sections at the tie plates. They make great retaining walls if appearance doesn't count and when you go into ready mix plants, asphalt plants , sand and gravel screening operations you see them employed as walls or containment bins.

Amen- 04 Ranger Super Cab- FX-4 off road package. Youngest son bought it new then when he became a family guy he (or daughter in law) decided not a good second vehicle. So I bought it from him at an inflated price. Added a Back Rack, and the jump seats stay folded up. Great weather proof tool box!

Yes Rich-I saw it-I never would have guess the plastic discs are now bringing big money. By the way I was disappointed-all the hype about Mack and nothing-but that was a nice picture of a Big B single axle with the rock body.

Makes a whole lot of sense to me. My bet is this will be a copied option.

Ah memories! Attached two were delivered to my operation in like 85? sitting at delivering dealer. 350 Cummins- By today's standards totally "underpowered -Mass 99,000 lb permits.

Seems to me the "gas tax" is the fairest way to pay for this-assuming "transportation" expenditures are highways. A true progressive tax. What I always wondered was, why did the feds not key something to fuel prices when we were geared to paying outrageous fuel prices. That IMO would have been the time to gear any tax increase to any reduction from some benchmark energy cost. Let's say the weighted price of diesel /gas was for example $3.00. Bottom line, people might not have liked it, but they were used to living with it. So let's say for reduction in that fuel price a percentage of that decrease could have been applied to an increase in fed fuel tax. this adjustment could be made on a quarterly basis. Just a thought. All the politicians talk about the need for highway infrastructure improvements but they are always silent on how they are funded.

Well the preview clearly indicates trucks-and in particular Macks-are the attraction.

Is it my imagination or does this guy talk out of both sides of his mouth? They have recalls up the ass and he talks about "cutting engineering and material costs". Seems to me when you have recalls one after another you have to do a better job of engineering and perhaps look at your "low bid" parts cost.

What I don't understand about this deal is just what is Spartan doing? Looks like Pete cabovers and conventionals with conventional boxes? What is Spartan brining to the table? There are dozens of cargo van builders all over the US. Or is Spartan doing something to the chassis? Interesting in any case that the low cost builders of class 6, 7 (Ford? Navistar? Hino?) lose out to a premium chassis and a custom builder?

Noticed that as well-this means the old dude who started that policy has retired

Makes sense-a typical "package car" would cube out very quickly with some commercial stops thrown in. I would imagine each large hub would have a couple of these 26,000lb jobs in the fleet.

Nice Rich- Wood at the sawmill??

Back in the Hall of fame-and in good company!

Caught the tale end of American Pickers tonight on History channel while surfing back and forth from ballgame. On Monday at 9 (History channel) they will be at some guys yard in I believe Maryland or Delaware and he has a bunch of old Macks on property.

well with Detroit Diesel coming out with all these smaller inline engines, and Isuzu and Hino doing well in the lower classes, perhaps Ford and GM might just get the idea. Not every class 5,6 and 7 truck needs a 350+ HP torque monster IMO

DD-Outstanding shot-thx-couldn't have picked a better spot for it-I have a couple of shots on the other end taken in Canterbury.

Now with all the BS associated with "self driving" cars, trucks, etc, the feature in this ad clip is the kind of thing they all should be concentrating on in the short term IMO. True "crash avoidance" systems vs, "self driving" cars so some yupster can read his NY Times on his way to work-not that a lot of idiots are not currently doing that as they drive.

EJ-Doesn't surprise me. Actually I think biggest concern was some money bags across the pond was going to get it.

Well guys to those of you going to Trucktoberfest this weekend, great photo op coming up. Denis Yaworski will be taking his beautiful Superliner-"End of the Line" to Allentown pulling Pat Camputaro's Landoll down. The return trip? He will be loading up Pat's great purchase, the Wellington Mack and bringing it back to Canterbury. What a photo op-last Superliner built and one of the more famous Macks of another era together. Thanks Pat and Denis.

Not to depart from the thread but I had a conversation the other day with a gal whose father in law had a very high ranking military position in a south American government. this guy was a German who had much experience on a world wide scale. She said he would say years ago, the country to be wary of in the future was North Korea. And we know, Fat Boy's family has been in control for years. Pigeons are coming home to roost!

Nice ...........366? 427? I get confused by all the GM V-8s 5 and 2? 33,000 GVW? Your dad took good care of it.

Thx Kevin-this confirms V-10 at least in this shot as no "Power Stroke" badge-which is large and very visible on door. Would have to believe in low mileage, low density/high cube loads this should be a cost effective alternative.

He parks in back as that is where trailers unload "show" trucks -unless they don't want to unload "show" truck off trailer in which case they park in field next to biggest pole barn. At least that is always our intent.

Someone a while back posted a picture of a new Ford medium in Buster Brown colors-think the truck was in midwest. On I -495 today saw one northbound just south of Mass Pike. so that means they bought at least two! No clue if gas or Power stroke as I was southbound and couldn't see door where "Power Stroke" id is carried