Bullheaded

So now that Freightliner also went Cummins, what does this mean for their recently developed Detroit DD5 and DD8?

Pretty wild. Kind of tells you something about these ridiculous emission laws when a company like Hino/Toyota gives up and goes vendor engine. Good for Cummins though. They own the whole medium duty market now except for Ford. Pete and Kenworth can call them Paccar's, but they are 6.7 Cummins too with Paccar decals on them. Between all the mediums, Ram pickups, farm tractors like Versatile and Kubota M8's and construction equipment......that 6.7 Cummins has to be the best selling motor there is.

Do they still draw air from the base of the windshield? I used Cab Fresh filters on my 2000 CH when I had it. I actually used Cab Fresh filters on all my trucks. Very good quality, great people own the company, easy to install and clean. I actually helped them redesign the Paystar 5600i filter and wrote the installation instructions. They used to have a pic of my truck in the Paystar advertising. http://www.cabfreshfiltercompany.com/products-page/mack/

I saw the new T270/370's. It's the W990/T880 wide cab on it. More cab room, but the current narrow cab looks a lot nicer.

Yep. Everyone in the mine feeds them. Not to mention all the underground guys leftovers come up in the waste ore. So that's why they all look so healthy up there. I was just sitting there waiting for the next truck, napping, and opened my eyes to that. LOL I have a dens and families that live in my back yard and they don't look as fat and fluffy as these ones.

Hahaha, I did that too. Built logging roads with 6x6 steel nose Paystar 5000's with 6-71/13 speeds. Rode horrible but those trucks would go anywhere.

Was training a new loader operator the other day. She listens better than most. Here she is doing the circle check.

The pic in your avatar? Got it full size? Where was it from?

It was back in the day. We were always under the police radar, LOL. Those were the days I enjoyed trucking. Running wide open in a straight piped Mack. Now I had to get out of trucking because trucks and engines are junk and not many left that can actually drive.

I used to work for a company that ran like this, but was better because they were all Mack. R Model's, V8 Superliner's and V8 Ultraliners. We hauled 140,000 pounds in the hills here and the owner always said...."if you get passed by a tandem freight hauler in the hills, you get that truck in to the shop and we'll turn it up more."

Can't wait to see that done! Very nice.

From Truck News Magazine. Unfortunately no pics. LMA LaPointe Construction in Quebec has taken delivery of the first Autocar DC-64D dump truck to hit – or haul – Canadian soil. The truck features a SPIF-compliant 20k Simard twin steer suspension. The cab is created from steel and reinforced with aluminum corner castings, Autocar says.

Yes, they have a whole thread devoted to the Canadian built CL350ST. And don't forget John Casanave's Challenger trucks that were available with Mack E9 500 V8's.

I'll take the old Ford.

It does. Yes. Out of all the new aero trucks though, my favorite is still the International Prostar/LT as far as looks. Unless of coarse I can include the Lonestar as an aero model.

Like like like!!

Or "how to make a Peterbilt look just like a Cascadia."

I wish they'd sell Western Star to someone that knows how to build trucks.

I know which ones in those pics that I'd be driving, LOL

Wonder when the Duramax in your Chevy/GMC pickup is going to turn into a Cummins? LOL

OK.....LOL, every DMM excavator dump I ever saw pics of was one of Hi-Ho's trucks, LOL. Every dump I drove in my younger days had a DEL body and hoist on it.

Been so long I can't remember oil pressures or anything like that, but ran a PT270 in a 1978 International S-Line tandem dump truck for many years. I do remember it pulled good for what it was. All the other dump trucks I worked with at that time had small International or Cat 3208 engines and that 270 was a powerhouse compared to them. But it was heavy. Get that truck into soft sand with it's wide base steers and the rear end was hopping where the other little motors would keep going. Other thing I remember about it, was a lot of people had a really hard time driving it, but I was used to it. The throttle would really "float" in it. You let off to shift and the RPM would float before it came down.

I'm in love!!!!!! LOL

DEL was also very popular back then here in Ontario. Many of the old dump trucks I ran had DEL bodies until Bibeau and Beau-Roc pretty much took over. But as Maddog has said....I have seen those DMM's with Hiho excavator bodies also.