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  1. Bullheaded
    Well for snow removal here for the city, it is by bid and there are guys on the list at $53.00 per hour for a tri-axle. I don't even know how they pay their drivers? Probably not much, LOL.
  2. Bullheaded
    Well looking back at this thread now I can see I'm stupid. Turned down the job in the mine and went trucking again, LOL Around here Swishy if your new $250,000 truck makes $1200.00 in a 12 hour day you are doing good. It's pretty sad. Will never change.
  3. Bullheaded
    Yes, being more resistant to rust is good. They just need to work on the repair and replacement costs of those aluminum bodies. My insurance agent told me they don't even fix these new F150's. The cost of repair is so high they just write them off. Dent your outer box side? Over six thousand Canadian dollars for a box side. I see so many of them with damaged tail gates. People don't even replace them, they just leave them bent and dented, LOL
  4. Bullheaded
    Would love to see those videos mechohaulic. Would be like the old days when they just started El Rodeo Du Camion in Quebec. When it was R Model's racing each other up the hill. Was just talking yesterday with my insurance agent about the crazy rate increases as of late. Among other things, that was one item she pointed out.....the "throw away world of today." She said all these new vehicles, they don't even repair them. They are immediately wrote off. Not even cost effective to fix them any more.
  5. Bullheaded
    Only two trucks in that class we have left are the Western Star 6900 and the KW C500. They pretty much own the oil fields and logging roads now.
  6. Bullheaded
    Doesn't that give hints of the last of the Mack RD models with their sloped hoods? That's what I see when I saw these pics. Awesome thread. I have quite a few friends that ran Hayes trucks. The COE and conv highway models and the big fat trucks in the mountains of BC.
  7. Bullheaded
    Maybe it is the new Volvo heavy haul, vocational and refuse models and the announcement that Mack will now only produce the Anthem and MD series?
  8. Bullheaded
    I saw those, and was kind of relieved they didn't change it much, because I think the current F150 is the best looking one since 1979. I was also relieved to see this rear view and see that it still has a solid rear axle. Hopefully they keep the new independent rear suspension for just the upscale yuppie grocery getter models. Because when the day comes I gotta take a truck with independent rear suspension that will be the day I keep what I have and not buy any new ones. I already am constantly replacing front control arms and bushings on my cars, due to our crappy roads, don't need to do that on my truck.
  9. Bullheaded
    OK, I was kinda lost there for a minute, LOL. I wasn't sure what you meant. What the EPA has done to diesel engines is a complete disgrace.
  10. Bullheaded
    Not sure if you are talking to me? If you are, I already said a new SCR Cat would likely not be any better than any other new engine out there. Just look at the issues with their new loaders and their emission systems. I want pre-emission Cat's back. Which at the end, when Cat announced discontinuation of the cat truck, they did sell some glider's. I should have bought one of those and put a 6NZ in it. As far as new trucks today, my dream truck would be a new International with a Detroit Diesel DD series engine in it. That's what I want!
  11. Bullheaded
    Isn't it depressing that we will never see anything like that again from Mack.
  12. Bullheaded
    Thanks 41Chevy!
  13. Bullheaded
    Found a video. And it even has a legend in it!!
  14. Bullheaded
    And does anybody have any pics of these civil defense sirens and how they work? They needed a V8 to run them??
  15. Bullheaded
    This brochure only lists 6 cylinder engines, or did I miss something? So is this a different model B bus to have the hemi V8? Who made the gas V6's listed in the brochure? Were they Chrysler also? This fascinates me. I had never saw a Mack school bus before. i would have been in my glory if I saw these as a kid!!
  16. Bullheaded
    That is sweet. A friend of mine used to have one identical to that, winch and all, but it was yellow and had an 8V71 Detroit in it. Unfortunately it got in the wrong hands and got scrapped.
  17. Bullheaded
    Got me beat mrsmackpaul, LOL
  18. Bullheaded
    I don't know if these Mack's are any good or not. But as far as other mistakes......you only have to look at the idiot that is running our country. Enough said.
  19. Bullheaded
    That's not the corporate mantra! It is "You take what we give you!" LOL
  20. Bullheaded
    Well they need somewhere to put all those 16 litre MP10 motors since they took them away from us, LOL
  21. Bullheaded
    Chev China Handmade Every Vehicle GMC Get My Chinese LOL. Seriously though, we here in Canada know what that's like. We lost Western Star and they have gone downhill, we lost Mack (we were the home of the RD800, CL350ST and the big M Series), Pacific, Challenger Trucks, and we lost Kenworth (except for the medium duty production) among others.
  22. Bullheaded
    I was just going to say that. I had one pony in the past with a joe dog hauling salt to the sheds. But normally I have a rigid tongue. They are better for our hills in the winter to get traction on the truck drives. But the one with the joe dog could be tied into a knot tighter, LOL. You could almost put the pony up beside the truck. Don't have to worry any more though. They don't wanna pay you to haul the salt, so you make more money leaving it parked, LOL
  23. Bullheaded
    Yes, but at least you can get a big sleeper on a Titan over there. That was one of the biggest things that killed it here. That and the price they wanted for a bare day cab. My favorite quote from my long time Mack salesman friend when he got his first one in: "How in the F@&K do they expect me to sell these at this price!" LOL Edit: At the time he said when they first came out, that was a day cab, cab and chassis tractor. It was the same price as what I was paying for fully equipped 4 axle dump trucks.
  24. Bullheaded
    At least Mack Australia still knows how to build trucks, to specs customers want.
  25. Bullheaded
    I like them. The HX is one of the nicest trucks I have drove, and I have driven every brand. I'm only 5'9' though, so I have no issues with cab room. I like that cab, but I do miss the old dash that I had in my 5600i and 9900i. I wish now that I would have got one of those last Cat trucks when they offered them as a glider to get rid of the last chassis they had on hand. That would have been sweet, basically an HX with a 3406E or C15.

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