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This right here... Just about every "Mack" dealer I know of around me is no longer a dealership. they have all sold out to Truck sales or some other no name company that repair trucks but can also sell you a new KW, volvo or International etc... The last Mack dealer near me that sold out was Northern IL Mack. They sold to M&K but many of the employees stuck around for a while. you can tell it was a mack dealer as they still service alot of macks but the parking lot is no longer filled with new and used trucks like they use to be. all the other M&K dealers look like they sell Volvo only. you might see 2 used macks in the back with 100 new volvos out front for sale

I still think it has a better frame. at least last I checked on a 2010 model. The frame paint wiring, plumbing etc... was still better than that of a paccar. what ever paccar does when they paint their frame is a joke. it flakes off like it was not even prepped. the 2001 I drive has been painted 2 times that I know of and it still looks like crap. my 1978 mack is covered better than what ever they use today

The Granite may be a better built truck down to the frame but with volvo electrical and engine issues it has pushed owners to look at other brands. Waste Managment went with Peterbilt recently. In the last 2 years I see more Paccar trucks arriving as new units in large fleets once held my mack. The big mixer fleets in Chicago that were mostly Mack are now buying new KWs.

I had a door panel made that looks like Robs. I took my old panel and cut the stamped dog out of it and had them sew it into the new panel.

I know a few people that swapped in a Over drive Eaton be hind a maxidyne to get down the road faster and at a slower RPM. It worked for them but if does change the driving style of the truck. the low end grunt was there but the gears were shorter. most skiped gears when empty. when on the highway as long as the engine cruised around 1600 and above EGT temps stayed cool and was happy. the engine was built for low RPM grunt but it liked upper rpms to stay cool.

On many of the early R models with maxidynes the turbos had Muffling device cast into the exhaust housing. that being said I dont recall ever seeing a factory spec 237 powered mack without a muffler. even the U models had a compact muffler down near the frame with a long stright pipe running up the side of the cab. when you say brackets. there were many versions of exhaust used thry the years. you need to be more specific on what year. early R models used the cab mount/fuel tank bracket to hold the bottome of the stack and a rubber strap up near the top of the cab drip rail .

When Ozinga bought out meyer. Mack lost that buisness. Waste Managment has started buying paccar garbage trucks. I have not seen a new WM mack in a while. UPS has been buying KW and others. Almost every excavation company that ran macks bought a Pete or KW for a lowboy truck and then started to change over their fleet to paccar. I said it 15 years ago.. Paccar was moving in to the vocational market with serious intent and they are winning today.

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The moment I heard Mack claim increased market share with the new anthem I said where are they at on the road? I saw many small construction companies switch over to Paccar in the last decade and noticed in the last 2 years that company's that were once 95% Mack fleet owners started buying Pete or KW because Mack was priced higher and did not offer the same options as others. Even the garbage truck and mixer fleets are no longer mack...that was a huge market share for mack that is now lost. Volvo pushed out all the old engineers, moved HQ and put volvo people they wanted in charge thinking they were better at it. They are not. I really dont know why they insist on keeping Mack around. all the millions in plant investing to build a truck that most people would not even look at. its sad.

im still not sold on them. even when they are "dressed up" they still look like a entry level plastic truck. The look of them are just not what I would want in a truck. the body lines are all wrong with the hood. it needs to be a little flatter on top and longer so that the engine is under the hood not the cab. the small hood with a engine stuffed under the cab just screams $$$$$ every time it needs a simple repair.The air tank set up is not pleasing to the eye. Stack location behind sleeper is good for aero but should have other options.

I wonder if it was the driver tire or passenger steer tire that went out on him. I have never had the driver side steer go out but on the 2 passenger side tires that went down on me one was pretty tangled around the tire and axle. What im getting at is if it was the driver side steer its possible that it wrapped around the pitman arm and turned him into the ditch/oncoming traffic. if it was violent it could have pulled the steering wheel out of his hand and he then lost control? just speculating

Saw this on the news last night. I knew it was going to have mutable lives lost just looking at the pics . Damm shame to those people I have lost 2 steer tires. One was on my R model. I had just put power steering on it a few weeks before. I was loaded and it went down slow. I was able to ride it to the shoulder. the 2nd time was a few years ago in a pete with a load of scrap...I ran over something in the highway and it let go quick. again I was able to ride it out.

I had asked my local spring shop about them years ago and they told me not to use them as they caused issues. If I recall it was more of a band aid to haul more weight or something. but I have never driven or seen them on a truck so cant really say anything about them.

That one looks a little dirrerent than the one I saw in a old R model. the one I saw was just like that but without numbers. I thought it was odd that it did not give a number reading. just dash marks that I had assumed were 10 Psi increments

is this the same V8 that shared any mack traits? This looks like a very modern engine

I always laugh at these kind of Bids. The Government has no business in setting ridiculous requirements to spec a package van. in doing so it just costs the tax payer more money for something that is useless at the end of its life. I can see Right had drive being needed so right there you are in a special market but I would think the makers of these tranisit vans and sprinters have 90% of what is needed and the cost to the tax payer would not be out of line

That's good news for mack. I hope they continue the upward trend . I do find it odd however ... I don't know of any local company's seriously looking at mack these days and I dont see the once loyalty that people once had. I would agree with their comment that they have moved further into the OTR market and are selling more? I just don't see new macks in construction like I did in years past.

I remember telling the accountant where I worked at that wanted to install some Driver tracking/recording device to get an insurance discount or something. I told him that I would cut the wires to the thing before it left the shop and then would call him middle of the night, on his home land line, to give him personal updates of my location,speed, and heading. He wised up.

same here in Chicago-land. All the major fleets but one has gone to paccar. even some of the little companys that ran Macks for years have gone to KW or Pete. I still see a few new Macks here and there but they are just owner operators. Mack has given up its once dominant market share around here. I guess thats what happens when you dont listen to die hard Mack owners and instead push out a truck with limited options that few people want. Its a shame to watch a once proud American icon slowly being turned into a ghost. I wonder how much longer Volvo will put this show on.

ok this clearly proves im not as big of a rigger as I thought. I would not drive that truck down the block let alone cross country

At work we have a 2006 Ford F550 with the v8 turbo diesel. It has a service body on it with a crane, out riggers, miller welder, gas axe, 100 gallon fuel tank, under hood air compressor, and filled with tools. The dam thing is so heavy for what it is. we cant tow anything with it legally. It should have been built on a medium duty chassis and something with larger brakes. I hate driving it. not to mention the ford diesel throws a code for something once a month. Right now it hard starts in the morning and dont want to start after its warmed up. its one of the biggest POS trucks I have driven. Its set up nice but just not on the right chassis.

Yes they had one. I have not seen one for sale in years. the one I saw in a company truck I drove did not have numbers on the gauge. it just had dash marks in what I assume 5 or 10 psi increments. I bought an aftermarket auto meter for my R model as I could not find a factory gauge 7 years ago

I thought there was a driver shortage? but they are building them in record numbers? Or are these steering wheel holders just wrecking them faster than they can build em?

Noi Problem If you find a cab you want and are un sure just post a pic and we can give you some solid ideas if it would work for you or not