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Tuesday_25-February-2025 Patiently awaiting her turn in the shop for an extreme makeover is Jones Transport Mack Cruise-Liner "Phantom 309"

Tuesday_25-February-2025 Jones Transport 1986 Mack Super-Liner

The Mack Trucks of Jones Transport KY Hwy 80 East - Columbia - Adair County - Kentucky Tuesday_25-February-2025 Jones Transport 1976 Mack Cruise-Liner Like the blue F-700, this Mack sports the Gold-plated Bulldogs representing the fact that this Mack is All Mack = Mack Engine, Mack Transmission, Mack Rears, and Mack Suspension. If the Bulldog is Silver, the truck is not pure Mack.

You guys are thinking of Jones Transfer = a completely different outfit. Jones Transport is very alive and well today and haul tankers exclusively.

Nice photo; can you date the photo and put a location on it ? I am assuming that is Leon standing in front of it, right ?

The Mack Trucks of Jones Transport KY Hwy 80 East - Columbia - Adair County - Kentucky Tuesday_25-February-2025 Jones Transport 1978 Mack Cruise-Liner READ 1 --- WATCH --- READ 2

The Mack Trucks of Jones Transport KY Hwy 80 East - Columbia - Adair County - Kentucky Tuesday_25-February-2025 Jones Transport 1976 Mack F-700 One thing about a cab-over truck; if anything happens, you are the first one there. Although every one I ever saw was a F-700, there are also F-600, F-800, and F-900; I have not as yet been able to find what makes a F-600 different from a F-900 and etc. Although the cab-mounted placard will only ever display an even "hundred" "00", various 1st and second digits following the F-X?? denote the actual model number and denote various options and equipment. READ 1 --- READ 2 --- READ 3 Look laying on the dash in the corner of the windshield if you want to see some history. If you were tough enough to smoke those old filter-less Camels, then you were too tough for cancer to get you. I bet that pack of cigarettes is older than the truck.

Been a tire man all my long life so I will stick my nose in here... Like already said, a tire being Bias or Tubeless is not an "or" question; whether Bias or Radial, either can be tube-type or tubeless. Myself, I would go for the 24.5 tubeless rims/tires if money and availability were the problem; however, I would AVOID any type radial of any size and much prefer a Bias tire, which is again going to be harder to find than a radial. Regardless of what they cost at the tire store, radials are much cheaper/easier to produce which is why they have been crammed down consumers throats for the last several years. If you are gong to drive a lot and use them up quickly, a radial may be okay. However, if the truck is going to sit a lot and miles not accumulate very quickly, then Bias is definitely the way to go. An old dry-rotted Bias fifty or more years old will stand out there in the sun and keep on soldiering on without flying apart. A radial five or more years old, regardless of how deep the tread, will soon explode, sling it's tread, and wrap wire around the frame and axle, and can and will do this sitting unused out there in the driveway. Contrary to popular belief, all those truck treads you see all over the highway are not retreads; they are the tread slung from radials; don't believe me ... stop and investigate them; you will see the rusty imprints of the steel cord on the inside of the tread strip.

You memory may be off a year; here is the January 1979 Mack Calendar: My photo of the photo =Tuesday_25-February-2025 January 1979 Calendar Line-up of Mack Trucks Thumb-tacked to the office wall at Jones Transport. Barely legible above the green tack at bottom-center of the photo "Mack Western Liner Series" As the calendars had to be created, edited, printed, and delivered to be ready to disperse the last of November/first of December, it is hard to imagine that these could truly be 1979 Model Macks; more likely 1978 Models. Left to Right: Mack Value-Liner, Mack Cruise-Liner, Mack Super-Liner Enjoy... Note: My first post here; I hope it works out.