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We have a small tanker company here in Ct with a mix of green CH's and Petes and one new W900. They don't have any gold bulldog CH's as of yet.

Kscarbel: Being a long time Mack fan from my youth I have the folowing obsevations. 1)Mack concentrated on enginnering and building a rugged vertically integrated product. 2)Paccar concetrated on building a light weight product using the widest range of quality vendors as possible. 3)Paccar concentrated on quality/driver comfort/wide range of vendor options. 4)Mack and Paccar both concentated on building primarily trucks. 5) Paccar took care of the business side of building and marketing trucks. 6) Mack faced bankruptcy from the late 50's on. Obviously Mack didn't take care of the buiness side of the house. ie Signal/Renault/Volvo 7) If Mack had run a proper business model they would still be independent as Paccar is today. 8) I don't like Paccar but you will have to give them credit they took care of business. 9) Of course the remaining Europeon manufacturers also took care of business (with liberal government support as required)

I agree the Aussie Titans and Tridents are sharp. To bad they don't bring the trident or Superliner over here.

are they going to drag race that day?

I am glad I guessed wrong!

If I had to guess I would say frito bandito ville

Weather it is a single, double or triple shaft and gear setup is not really the proper question. The proper question is whether the shafts and gears are designed to handle the torque. If they are then you are good to go. If the one shaft on an M-drive breaks you are dead in the water. If one shaft breaks on a double or triple counter shaft setup I believe you are also out of action.In theory with the proper metallurgy and shaft cross sections all designs could be made to be equally strong. Another factor to consider is that more parts allows for more chance of failure.

Ah when Macks were Macks. I think these L prime movers were cooler than the big M's. Looks like it is in great shape. What would the power output be on a cummins v-12? Hope it stays in the USA.

S&S is all Pete and KW bling now

Vinny just a thought. When you are all done put a wooden stake body on the back(removable if need be). There are a couple of R models running around Ct and they are really sharp. One has 17 inch wheels and it makes one sharp pickup. Good luck.

Nice cross section of old mack iron

The Mack marines had so much horsepower because they kicked the RPMs up(maybee 2600-2800 rpm). More black smoke. Just take a look at the truck pullers on you tube. If you like about 3 miles to the gallon that might work for you. Also be prepared for more engine failures. Remember one of the components of horsepower is RPM.

A little reversal on the popular thread Is Volvo good or bad for mack trucks. I say Mack is definately good for Volvo. Latest May North American sales. Volvo 2201 for May - Mack 2426 for May. If this keeps up Mack might be an attractive division to sell. Volvo is a huge company and very diversified. I don't see why they need to keep Mack as it probably doesn't add much to their bottom line looking at the big picture. They already had the distribution network of White/Autocar/GMC etc. I say let Mack go. John Deere might be a good match.

isn't it funny how we hear every day that Europe is going bankrupt(joke) and we have to bail them out. Then why do they own so many US companies(truck producers are just one example area). Also funny why is the euro more valuable than the dollar. Political liars liars liars.

TIM I believe Arute still has a location on rt 3 in Cromweel Ct close to the Fryhoffer bread store. Havn't looked in a while but they used to have some B-81's and DM's there. Across the street there is aother small outfit with some nice red dm's ad R's. If you look at Bing maps middlefield ct.- Suzio has a ton of old DM's and crane carriers for your arial pleasure. Unfortunately they have been running Pacaar for a while.

If my old memory serves me right. One of the gentlemen on here with an MH picture icon said that Volvo customers and Mack customers were getting together secretly to have input into up comming cabs. This was about two years ago. I thought he alluded to two different cab versions comming.

Thanks for the cab correction Mr. Legacy.

I work at the Coast Guard Academy New London Ct. and that BT Sessa DM was used here hauling fill from a base constuction project. There were about 20 different dumps used here for this project. They were all Macks except for one IH and one pete. Campaturo is the construction lead contractor. They have RD's and sharp Granites. The BT Sessa Mack clearly was the best sounding of all of them(237 staight pipe I believe) McLure also supplied a DM and an RD(looked like ex Rawson Macks) Rawson went over to the dark side-(KW). Unfortunately most of Connecticut has gone Paccar.

Which company had the best gas engines in the old days. Mack, White, IH, ford, GMC, hercules, hall scott, waukasha?

I wonder if the Scannia V-8 had any influence on the E-9. They were about the same displacement. Scannia currently has individual heads compared to the E-9's four heads. I wonder if the scannia V-8's will be dropped into the puller circuit when the E-9's become parts nighmares.

That explains no web site for LLP.

ks-Unfortunately you may be right on the universal cab. May 15 fox business news states. Volvo to come out with a new common cab for renault volvo and Mack in sdeptember 2012. It didn't state if it would be cab over or conventional. A little confusing since I don't think Renaut makes an over the road conventional and Mack except for the MR does'nt make an over the road cab over.

I believe Mack 3p said that Mack frames come from a company in PA. Something LLC and they don't have a web site. Kind of curious all those frames and no website.

Vinny if you like U Models so much then I wonder if you like DM's as much. Take a look at the frame on a DM sometime and you might forget about U models. Just kidding. Vlad: Back in the 70's Mack was going to build a factory in Russia but it was shot down for political reasons. How times have changed. Now our presidents give away military secrets for rockets to the Chineese. They executed the the Rosenburgs for supposedly giving atomic bomb info to the Russians. Now the Commies in charge would consider them heros. Well anyways enough rambling and back to the truck pictures. Good job Vinny I like the on the R-Model paving trucks.

kscarbe: I believe a couple of people on this sight have stated that Mack frames came from a firm in Pa. Maybe they just add frame components to the shipped in frames. I know they come into the Macungie plant with crossmembers, rears, srprings, driveshaft and some mounting hardware. The holes are all drilled also per build sheets. I Thought the first CH models came out about 1991.