Popular Post j hancock Posted November 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 20, 2019 Nice rigs seen at the Spa 2019. 5 1 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
james j neiweem Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Nice dogs for sure. The one on the left must have beefier springs up front. Keeps the TB's off the ground. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Nice Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post harrybarbon Posted November 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2019 Some pics from Mack Melbourne Australia - 100 years celebration 16 Nov 2019 8 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrybarbon Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 The yellow and white Superliner - I think 1988, is same owner from new and continues to work daily as livestock and hay transport, it now has a Cat 600 hp and 18 spd Mack box on Neway rears - owner/driver is a gentleman Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrybarbon Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 And my apology to the Mack readers for the UD sign, it is the combined Volvo, Mack and UD dealership yard, I have to learn to cleanse my pics of !!! 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg1 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 sure are some good looking trucks down there Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Some really nice iron!!👍👍 terry Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 15 hours ago, harrybarbon said: The yellow and white Superliner - I think 1988, is same owner from new and continues to work daily as livestock and hay transport, it now has a Cat 600 hp and 18 spd Mack box on Neway rears - owner/driver is a gentleman Andrew Kerr name seems to ring a bell Last time I saw it was going thru my old home town with a B double load of sheep on Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrybarbon Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Mrsmackpaul, close, his name is John Kerr and no I did not know John has a B double behind his Superliner, however with the 600 Cat and 18 spd the B double would be a lazy Sunday drive for John's Mack. And where is your old home town? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Kerang, I dairy farmed there till 2007 so would of been before then Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrybarbon Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Yes you would have seen John around Kerang, just up the road from his home of Bendigo and at that time it would have had the E9 motor. And I have been going thru Kerang since I was a baby, my dad's transport business was at Robinvale/Euston since 1951, now owned by Pickering. And lots of Macks were owned in Mildura/Buronga and surrounding towns, mainly B models, afterwards Macks were not popular. In the broad area up there, Alan Linnet at Balarnald is about only Mack owner this is his series 1 Superliner. Maybe there are some Macks that the Cockies are hiding on their wheat farms that only come out of their kennels during harvest time!!! 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Great looking trucks you have there down under! Thanks for sharing. Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskymack Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 6 hours ago, harrybarbon said: Yes you would have seen John around Kerang, just up the road from his home of Bendigo and at that time it would have had the E9 motor. And I have been going thru Kerang since I was a baby, my dad's transport business was at Robinvale/Euston since 1951, now owned by Pickering. And lots of Macks were owned in Mildura/Buronga and surrounding towns, mainly B models, afterwards Macks were not popular. In the broad area up there, Alan Linnet at Balarnald is about only Mack owner this is his series 1 Superliner. Maybe there are some Macks that the Cockies are hiding on their wheat farms that only come out of their kennels during harvest time!!! Very nice looking Super's. I remember them back in 91/92 when I was in Australia. The Mack V8's made that distinctive popping sound. Sorry to drift off topic a bit but I spent a couple of months picking grapes in Robinvale in early 92. I hitched a couple of rides with a local family trucking business run by a guy called Wally Williams. They had a couple of Kenworths, W900A and T600A and an old Diamond Reo. I can't exactly remember the trading name of the business but Robinvale Transport Group kind of rings a faint bell. I wondered if they are still going? 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Excellent line up...most of them look too good to use ...bobSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Dunno about not many about Kerang In one street there is 3 R's one F at least 3 CH And I know of another R model anda fella I know fairly well had his series 1 Super liner at Wacol and still has his R model, it just sits now as he has aged a bit but still loves it even though he doesnt drive it A fella at Koondrook has a few R models that are used every day There's still a few around considering the age, a lot of this has to do with the climate as well Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullheaded Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Australia has the coolest trucks! The first two could be really nice too, but I don't know why so many people have the desire to put those big ugly front bumpers on everything? Nothing worse than a nice classic with a snow plow on the front. Speaking of Australia, and I see what looks to be one of their old ones in that lineup......that company Heavy Haul Australia used to have a whole fleet of the nicest Mack's I have ever seen. Another giant company that managed to bankrupt itself. Here's the full series of tv shows about them for those who have never seen them. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Technician Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 This will keep me in screen wallpaper for the next year, thanks! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrybarbon Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 Whiskymack While it is off topic, yes I have known Wally Williams since I was a child, sadly he now has dementia. I have not seen him for many years although another friend has been keeping in touch, I will try get an update. And yes it RTG, he owned this with his brother Billy Williams. I have some pictures of their earlier trucks and I will post them in the other trucks section on this site soon. And Heavy Haul Australia - all arrogance and a flawed business model, massive debt and not enough work for all players in the game, he thought he could clean up the competition, the long hard working operators. Instead self imploded. The blue Superliner picture attached is an ex HHA truck and as good as new. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hayseed Posted November 27, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2019 (edited) On 11/21/2019 at 7:13 PM, harrybarbon said: Some pics from Mack Melbourne Australia - 100 years celebration 16 Nov 2019 This Truck At one stage was in the Guinness Book Of records for the Longest roadtrain in the World.. Edited November 27, 2019 by Hayseed 3 Quote "Be who you are and say what you feel...Because those that matter...don't mind...And those that mind....don't matter." - Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullheaded Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 Harrybarbon......you used the same description I have heard everyone use about that guy that owned HHA. Everything I have ever read, he didn't seem to be well liked. But he had awesome trucks. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg1 Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 i never saw to many chrome dayton wheels around here but they have a lot down under 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayseed Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 8 hours ago, harrybarbon said: And Heavy Haul Australia - all arrogance and a flawed business model, massive debt and not enough work for all players in the game, he thought he could clean up the competition, the long hard working operators. Instead self imploded. For the second Time, Too. I might Add... 1 Quote "Be who you are and say what you feel...Because those that matter...don't mind...And those that mind....don't matter." - Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 16 hours ago, Hayseed said: For the second Time, Too. I might Add... And just even try to imagine how many other innocent mum and dad businessed he took with him when he went under Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrybarbon Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 There you go, it is public knowledge of HHA, and I had not heard 2nd time - they dont loose their spots is the saying. And yes beautiful trucks but paid indirectly - the unsecured creditors!!! And how he spoke to his people, for the world to hear and see. I watched no more than 15 minutes of 1 of the shows, saw how he acted and shut my TV never to watch the HHA shows again, even with the beaut trucks. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59892-couple-of-supers/#findComment-436810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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