Pieter78

Weekend at the roadworks at the A2 highway in the south of the netherlands. Here you see a Mack B8136SX Dumptruck, 8 Mack B43S and some other machines

A Mack B61 with the new Yellow colour somewhere in the sixties

Just delivered, a brand new Mack B613T with a bricktrailer. Chief mechanic Gert Lentjes standing proud next to the Mack

As you can see a Mack N61 and 2 Mack B61 are waiting for repairs or maintenance in front of the Haukes workshop. Chief Mechanic Gert Lentjes is posing for the camera. Looking at the picture you can see that it was a shinny summerday

A Mack B61S with bricks at a storage facillity in Holland somewhere in the sixties

A Mack B61S fully loaded with bricks at the dutch roads around 1965

This is me standing in front of my Volvo from Haukes in October 2006. This truck was trade in for a new one at the volvo garage and now drives in east-europe

These trucks are the pride of Haukes Holland today. The all yellown truck at the left was my cousins last truck at Haukes. He became the truck when it was new and drove for over 3 years with it untill he moved to a other company.

A new Volvo of Haukes on the highway in Holland pulling a trailer full of bricks.

Haukes in Suriname these days. Founded in the seventies by one of the dutch Haukes brothers it's one of suriname largest trucking and roadworks company. The sons of the founder are doing a good job there.

Mr. Hans Haukes is the only member of the Haukes family in germany who has stil his own truck. It's a Volvo FH16.610 Globetrotter XL with a 610hp engine and a 12 speed manual gearbox

Changing a Mack lanova diesel engine of a Mack NR outside of the Haukes workshop.

A couple of Foden Trucks at the companyground n 1955 with Mr. Haukes and one of his daughter-in-law in front of them. In the back you can see a couple of Mack NR Trucks wich Haukes started with after the war (WW II)

This is a Foden FG8/15 (eight wheeler) truck (english brand). The first new truck of Haukes after WW II. Togehter with the Macks, the Fodens were the trucks of Haukes that you could see everywhere in Holland in those days but also in Germany or Belgium. Haukes replaced the NR Macks of the US Army with these trucks and for over maybe 10 years almost all the fleet where Foden trucks. But there were a few Mack NR trucks left and Mr Haukes decided around 1958 to acquire a Mack N61 wich came in the spring of 1959. At the same time he bought a Foden FG8/15 six wheeler which had to compete with the Mack N61 to see what truck was the best for Haukes at that time. Of course Mack won this test and from 1959 until around 1975 almost all new trucks where Macks.

A Deutz ships engine at the back of the first Mack N61S of Haukes.

6 or 7, i'm not sure, Mack N61 trucks standing in a row with a couple of B Macks at a sunday at the companyground in 1963(?)

A picture of 2 macks, a b61 and a n61, and a Mercedes. One of the Haukes brothers founded a truckingcompany in germany close to the border with Holland. As there was no mack dealer in germany in these days he accuired some mercedes trucks. Here you see one of them at the companyground of the dutch Haukes Company in Kekerdom

Haukes also had 1 FTF truck. FTF stands for Floor's Truck Fabriek what means Floor's Truck Factory. The comany of Floor was the dutch mack dealer from around 1950 until 1972. They also build there own trucks and trailers from around 1965 until 1995. Today they only building trailers. Like your american trucks FTF was also custom build. Besides the chassis and a few other parts all the rest of the truckparts came from other subcontractors. The engine was a 8 V Detroit diesel with a 13 speed fuller gearbox. The cabine came from motor panels in england. The axels were also american made but i'm not sure wich brand they were. This truck was as strong as mack truck but not suitable for long distance traffic. It was a specialised truck like the hayes or pacific. The driver on the picture is my uncle, the same one who used to drive on the Mack LMSW tow truck haukes had after WW II from the US Army

As you can see at the picture one of the Mack DM600 is loading bricks at the brickfactory in kekerdom. The crane can pick up around 100 bricks at once. These days the bricks are loaded at the factory at pallets and there are like a 200 or more on each pallet and the brick trucks these days have cranes who can pick up such pallets easily.

This truck at the picture was the last mack that Haukes bought. It was a Mack DM600 Dumptruck with a automatic gearbox. Haukes bought a serie of 3 mack DM600 Dumptrucks and closed the chapter of buying new mack trucks. The volvo's did replaced the macks because they where cheaper but according to the drivers the mack was a better and stronger truck.

This was the first Mack DM600 that Haukes used. It was also the last Mack model haukes bought. Haukes didn't have much of this model from mack. I believe there were only 6 of them.

Around 1975/1976 the Haukes brothers decided to change the company colours from bride red into bride yellow. A couple of macks where repainted into this new colour yellow. As you can see also on the picture mack is losing ground. The first volvo's has arrived and from around 1976 all the new trucks where volvo's because macks where to expensive due to the high dollar rates

This Mack B43S was bought as a used truck. At the local dutch mack dealer the engine was replaced by a Detroit Diesel V6 engine with a Allison automatic gearbox. Some of the used ones also got a new original mack cabin.

Here you see 5 Mack B43S standing in a row waiting to get loaded with dirt, rocks and gravel in limburg in the south of the netherlands somewhere around 1964

This is a Mack B61S loaded with 20 tons of bricks at the brickfactory in kekerdom. This truck was fitted with a other kind of local build dutch cabine than most of the haukes macks.