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As someone who is career LTL I have been watching this very close. I've read every article that I can to get back up to speed and there is plenty of blame to pass around. Yellow had a plan but the IBT would not get on board with it. At this point it is out of the hands of Yellow as their creditors, including the US Govt, are pretty much in control. Yellow-Roadway, YRC, Yellow through the years has been on and off life support and now it is just a matter of time. My ex-wife works at yellow, her bro-in-law who is a neighbor and good friend of mine works for ABF, my across the road neighbor who I have weekend beers with every weekend works for T-Force & has been with the company back to the Overnight days and through the UPS freight time & I work at Old Dominion Freight Line. We are all watching this closely. My ex-wife for the most obvious reason but the rest of us because when Yellow goes out, we're all going to feel it directly and are actually already feeling it as companies have began moving away from Yellow to the other LTL carriers. My company is actively hiring for dock workers, pushing current employees through our in house truck driving school and planning to hire office & supervisory staff. We all need to hang on and plan for yet another supply chain slow down because there are not enough people & not enough equipment to move all of the freight that Yellow currently moves in our country. Some of the union carriers will hire Yellow employees but not all, The non-union carriers will stay away from them. The Yellow equipment is not up to the current LTL standard so that equipment is basically little more than scrap so most of their equipment will not be purchased by other LTL carriers. It's just going to be bad for a while.

Well Eddy, I just tried to login and was told that the page doesn't know my email address & I apparently don't know my password.

Jim, Good to know you are still with us! That all had to make for a lil excitement. Heal well and do what you're told.

I believe this pic of Tomer came from you, Larry

Jim Tomer a.k.a. Tundra is the Jim that popped in recently that Geoff is referring to. Jim Hancock is the Jim with the pictures.

To say I was stunned to see you on a MACK site is an understatement Jim! Glad to hear from you though! As mentioned in another comment there is a Other Makes page!

I click the link daily but still getting the same thing.

Thanks for the update Jeff. I'm really missing the WAI...

I bought some B Model parts off of Mike Harbinson way back when because I felt like the items that I had were too rough to use. He told me to bring them along when I picked up what I bought from him. He said I always do this because what might be too rough for you might just be perfect for the next guy. When it came to Mack's he would do EVERYTHING possible to not have to "knock 'em in the head." That was always his way of referring to sending them to scrap.

That stack looks to be in good shape (on the parts truck) Hang on to that. I know a few years back there were some guys looking for them.

I believe that number should be 561-309-4008

Thank you. That was taken on their driveway. The golf course is behind it.

Terex/Advance is about 13 miles from my house. Their property butts up to a golf course that I used to play at often therefore I have made many a trip onto the property to retrieve golf balls. I also have hauled chassis' in and out of there when I had my wrecker service and have hauled drums for them when I was flatbedding. The picture is of a concrete pump chassis going to the Mack dealer for driveshaft work. You'd never believe just how heavy it was! The front bumper on that old Ford had 1,000# of steel shot in it and I still had to "brake steer" and let the clutch out VERY slowly if I wanted to keep the steer on the ground...

Thank you! I'll just keep checking back daily.

Does anyone here know what happened to the JOT site? Each time I try to click on the site I get "Service Unavailable". I know there are a few of us here that are also over there. Not a lot of those guys are Facebookers so it's hard to reach anyone off the site & it's been so long since I called/text any of the guys I'm not sure I even have good #'s for them.

Around my parts a lot of recovery business still have a 750 or 850 in their stable. Most are mounted on FWD, Paystar or DM 6X6's for doing ag recoveries. The (somewhat) new thing that might finally make them obsolete are winch boxes/winch skids. I have seen many a seasoned recovery operator do with a Holmes 750 (25 ton) what the youngsters need a 50 (or more) ton rotator for.

Superdog, Mike Harbison Sr, was in Morning Sun, IA. He had about 200 Mack's in various stages from just a frame or title to complete running, operating trucks. His boy, Mikey, is carrying on the tradition though. Mike is also the one who located and purchased what is believe to be the only surviving, of either 12 or 13, UPS 4X4 Mack MH. I believe that it will eventually be in the Mack Museum. I know there was a deal made and it went east.

We lost him the 1st of June, 2022.

Thank you for sharing, Julie, and so very sorry for your loss.

Glenn's daughter, Julie, has joined our forum. Julie, all of us here had the utmost respect for your father & his knowledge of trucks & equipment. Our thoughts & prayers are with you in your time of loss.

Very sorry to read this. Thoughts & prayers to his friends & family.

I've never been a fan of the rat rod craze but I have to say that "repurposing" an old truck is better than scraping an old truck. The fact is not all of them can be saved so at least what was left of this one is continuing to live on even if not everyone approves of the lifestyle.

This was in our local news recently. Ray is LONG time friend, his business was originally on the same stretch of avenue as CW Transport, which my dad & late FIL worked for when I was a kid as well as 2 other businesses that I worked for as a teenager (Parrish Leasing & Brothers Express). He's been around awhile. https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/why-gas-stations-still-have-questions-about-converting-to-ev-chargers/

I get the "making time" part but, personally, I would really be concerned about traveling at anything over 75mph on the tires of the day & especially in the summer. Hell most truck tires now are not rated for anything over 75mph. A very close friend who works at the local KW dealer told me several years ago that they were required to set the speed limiter (governor) no higher than the lowest speed rating on the the tires on new deliveries.

We had 5 of these U Models. I loved driving them, pulling a single pup you could damned near do a U-turn on a wide residential street. They were also the 1st city tractors that we bought (used) that had A/C.