Mack 3P

Here is a picture from the show.

Those are some great pictures. I made the third one my desktop backgroud. I am checking out all the emblems and bulldogs. I have the from the B model on top of my monitor. Every year at the Macungie truck show I look for some cheap nice old ones for my cubical.

Not sure if you noticed or knew the WHQ is shaped like a bulldog from the air. The head is the auditorum and one wing is longer (the back leg). The old 5C plant is right next to WHQ, it was closed when Mack moved the plant to Winsborough. If you put in 2402 Lehigh Parkway South, Allentown PA you can see the Enigneering Development and Test Center surrounded by an oval test track,behind the airport. 40*34'17.16"N 75*29'40.00"W The EDTC is less the a mile from WHQ.

The LE and MR have to be indestructable. You would not believe how they get abused by some city sanatation dpts. If the truck breaks down the guys go home, sometimes it's a goal. The plastic park brake switch is made of metal becase it's often broken off. Some guys pee in the trucks which leaks into the "breadbox" where some of the ECU's are located, it's a killer on an electrical system.

Here is another truck in Iraq you might see. Bulit on a Granite chassis. (Picture from the Bulldog Magazine.) Get home safe.

I saw an episode of Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel last night where they attempted to prove or disprove the myth that a stick of dynamite would clean out a mixer drum after the cement hardened. A stick had no impact so they put 850 pounds of dymamite in the drum of a RB mixer. All that was left of the truck was the front and rear axles and engine. On another episoed they ramed a MR tractor and a Ford cabover into a small car to try to prove the trucks would fuse together from the heat. The Ford and car were demolished but the MR cab was mostly intact. It is a sad ending for two Macks that worked hard.

This might have some of the things you are after. Mack Accessories

- Product Development P.S. I was looking at the 2006 Mack Bulldos Basics Catalog and there is some Rawhide stuff in it.

Here are some pictures from different angles.

Here is a press release about the Las Vegas Truck show, for thoes of us not lucky enough to go. "Introduction of New Mack Truck and Engine Models To Be Webcast LIVE Sunday, October 23 The first Mack World Sales Conference in four years takes place this weekend in Las Vegas, featuring the official “reveal” of our new highway and vocational models and the engines that will power them – as Mack takes the biggest step yet in the most rapid product renewal in the company’s history. And all the excitement is as close as your computer at home – as we Webcast the Reveal Event LIVE! You can join Mack colleagues from around the world in viewing the live video Webcast of the Reveal Event from the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, on Sunday, October 23 starting at 8:45 p.m. Eastern time (5:45 p.m. Pacific time). To access the Live Webcast on Sunday evening, just go to the following Web site: http://macktrucks.savvislive.com – and follow the viewing instructions. If you can’t experience the event live on Sunday, you can see the Webcast footage on demand at the same Internet site starting Tuesday, October 25 – Details to come!"

Fusion is much more then a new cab based on the Mack cab, not Volvo. They are new models that were designed to be more comfortable, and productive. The new engines are shared with Mack, Volvo, and Renault, but the US engine was developed and manufactured at Hagerstown which is now Volvo North America's powertrain facility, formerly Mack plant. Each truck brand has specific needs and requirements that its own engines will meet. The new trucks will be unveiled soon. Volvo, VTNA, Mack, and Renault (aka Volvo Global Trucks) share parts just as Peterbuilt, DAF, and Kenworth (aka Paccar), or Freightliner, Mercedes-Benz, Sterling, and Western Star (aka DaimlerChrysler). Volvo has replaced some of their parts with Mack and Renault just as Mack is using Renault and Volvo and so on. Most of these common parts consist of hardware. To compete and survive in this global truck market is necessary to be part of a larger group. It is known by Volvo that someone who buys a Mack is unlikely to purchase a Volvo as their next truck just as a Volvo customer is unlikely to by a Mack. That is why the products will remain different and distinct yet sharing parts for greater buying power. We may not like all the decisions Volvo makes but we are still around. I am not and unable to give any new info, just trying to clear up concerns and misinformation.

This is a nice looking Axle Back.

Here is a link to the article about the hybrid Mack. Mack Hybrid

This is a press release about the expanded options on the CHN Rawhide which is made in the Volvo plant in NRV (New River Valley). Rawhide http://www.macktrucks.com/default.aspx?pageid=1329