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Aside from all the driver abuse, they are going. They are gutless on our hills with that weight, they drop down to first gear every hill (X15 525/1850 Cummins Allison auto's) and the transmission warning lights come on every hill, except for the one good driver. He has yet to see a light come on. But we all know how that works with slip seating and shift work.....one good driver that takes care of his unit gets to watch it get destroyed by the other seat covers.

Very nice. The last good Mack model. I very much enjoyed driving the CL's.

I didn't really find them loud, but then again I was young. But they were pretty luxurious with the Custom Cab trim. I ran them with 6V53, 8V53, 8V71, and 3406B power.

Cool picture. At first I thought Wilson's who hauled groceries here in Ontario, but then I saw Westcan on the doors of some of them. They are a big tanker outfit from Alberta and they (through their RTL Construction division) are the ones that build the ice roads around the Yukon. They are under new ownership now, called KAG Canada and they run mostly Mack. If I could buy one of those new now I might still be interested in trucking. But I'm not.

I only had the R700 brochure from 1978 so at least that year had no Mack engine listed. But yes I have seen them with V8 Mack engines.

Don't do it Shawn! Step away from the keyboard. LOL

Interestingly in 1978 it doesn't show ANY Mack engines in the R700.

My 1978 full line brochure shows the R700 available with NTC Cummins up to 350 h.p, both regular NTC and Formula. It only shows the 400 and the KT's under the Superliner and Cruiseliner. But a 350 can easily be made in to a 400 anyway. The R700 also shows Cat up to the 3406 DITA 380 and Detroit up to the 8V92TA 435.

I've never seen any literature saying you could get a steel hood on a DMM? First one I ever saw. Thanks for posting.

Yep, more safety police BS. Here in Ontario you need Working At Height training for anything over 5.9 feet and you need fall arrest for 10 feet. That's why when I was pulling walking floor and wood chip trailers I always loaded, then drove outside the mills to tarp. Those fall arrest systems and harnesses were more of a hindrance than anything. Especially when you get caught hanging above you trailer with no help in the winter when one freezes up at minus 40. That happened to me once at a mill that installed their extravagant $50,000 air powered fall arrest system.

So did any of the NEW Diamond Reo's that were going back in to production ever see the light of day yet? That went pretty quiet.

That's what the original posted truck wished it looked like too. LOL

Ya, I would have spec'd a few things different. It is a little low on power, especially since we have hills that are 15% grade on the haul road. (according to the display in the Cat wiggle wagons.) It drops down to first gear and just crawls. The lift axle.....I can't figure that one out. Yes the dump box is a bit longer than most off road haul trucks, it has a 266 inch wheel base, but I wouldn't think it would be needed with the frame that's in that thing. I thought maybe it is for some extra brakes, but it doesn't even have brakes on it. Somebody didn't think that one through. Still though, it's a pretty nice truck. And the last of the real trucks.

Been trying to get trucks right out of my life but thought maybe someone would like to see this. First of three 6900XD at our mine to start replacing the older Mack's and Star's. Has an X15 525/1850 Cummins, Allison auto, 28,000 front axle and Axle Tech 110,000 rears on Hendrickson walking beam. Weighs 37,000 KG empty and can carry 60 tonne load for a gross of 100 metric tonne. Truck is brand new but box is used. These are pics from dealer lot. Didn't want to post my pics with name on it because it's not mine.

We got a new T880 float tractor at the mine just over a year ago. X15, 18 speed, 4.56 gears, 24.5 rubber, 52,000 rear air ride. I only use the float couple times a year. It has a whopping 1500 KM on it now and the EGR cooler is leaking, the rad is leaking in the bottom corner, steers and handles like crap and has more rattles than you can imagine. 1500 KM. JUNK! As for the other comments here.....I had this argument with someone else also.....I would take an old truck ANY DAY over the luxuries of the new ones. Don't care if I'm slower, colder, hotter, who cares. When I had my R Model I never once turned the radio on even. Windows down and the sound of straight pipes. That is trucking to me. I didn't grow up dreaming of driving a luxury car. I'd even gladly take an all steel cab interior over listening to that rattling, squeaking cheap plastic piece of crap T880.

I used to watch Motorweek all the time and saw that. I LOVED my 2000 CH when I got it new. I remember when they were first introduced. There was a huge advertising campaign. I was disappointed the R Model was going away, but I was excited about the new CH. Can't say I'm excited any more when there are new model introductions. It's more like disappointment. LOL But luckily I don't have to worry about it any more.

I hear you. I wonder how long before the specialty markets go away, like the 6900XD Star and the C500 Kenworth?

As far as new trucks go, yes they look okay. But they are not a REAL Western Star. It's a higher priced Freightliner. Gone is the steel cab, nice interior, nice gauges, and I'll probably be safe to bet they are now multi-plexed with modules. Not the same tough Western Star frame either. I have a friend that bought one new and had an accident that damaged one side of the cab. His brand new truck was down a YEAR waiting for parts that STAR nor Freightliner had or would give up from the factory. Apparently the doors are Freightliner Columbia doors. And that was one of the things they had no new ones in stock.

I was just gunna say that....probably do like Freightliner did to Western Star......it will be a Volvo with Mack emblems. And cost more. LOL Look at the Anthem. I'm almost scared to see how much worse it can get. Glad I'm not trucking any more.

When you turn off my rural road you are on a secondary highway. There is some guy on that highway, I don't know if he is just trying to get payouts or lawsuits or what? But EVERY winter he parks a car right on the white line of the shoulder. Nothing all summer, only winter. They are usually black Chrysler 300's, but this last winter it was a 90's Mustang. It's entertaining watching the plows bury those cars all winter. This spring when the giant snow bank finally melted, every panel on that Mustang was caved in and all the glass was exploded out of it, LOL

You wonder what goes through some people's heads. My biggest enemy to our mailboxes here are snow plow seat covers that don't know where their wings are, LOL

That is an awesome truck! I would keep it just as it is, with the drill rig on it. That would be a cool show truck because you NEVER see anything like that. I love your paint job too. I love that colour/stripe combo. Hope you get her all fixed up.

Speaking of Mack rears. I have heard lots of complaints about them and I have also seen some fail on local log trucks (mostly when only chaining up tires of one axle.) But we have some Western Star glider dump trucks in the mine that have 65,000 Mack rears on solid walking beams with 6.13 gears, running highly overloaded 24 hours a day 475/550 Cat powered and I have yet to see a single failure. Lots and lots of transmission's and driveshafts and yokes replaced but not one rear axle failure.

I hauled 140,000 gross every day with my old 2000 CH with an E7 460, 18 speed, and if I remember correctly 4.11 gears. (46,000 pound Eaton's) And we're all hills up here. I also scaled the second heaviest load of hog fuel into our local flakeboard mill at 167,551 pounds gross. I couldn't pass the 475 Cat's in our fleet but I could just about stay with them. So I would say you shouldn't have a problem.

That is sure a sweet looking Superliner. I wouldn't be able to get rid of any, LOL I never saw a heater unit in a Superliner or R Model that I drove that looked like that one.....I mean shape-wise. Is that a year/date thing? All the ones I drove were in the 80's and 90's mostly.