A New Breed of Mack Trucks Announcement March 8th

[Joey Mack]

many of these Xenon HID bulbs have little electric fans on them to keep them cool..  OEM bulbs for new cars can be around $100.00 + each..  

[Joey Mack]

Ok Bullheaded...  Im not in touch with the new stuff like I used to be.. 👍

[Bullheaded]

37 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

Ok Bullheaded...  Im not in touch with the new stuff like I used to be.. 👍

Some of the aftermarket LED bulbs I have seen are like that too. They have fans on them. 

Some do and some don't? 

 

Did y'all see the new Granite updates yet? Nobody has mentioned them yet here. But then again most of us hate new stuff anyway. I just saw it in an email I received.

New grill shape and heated LED headlights like the new Star's have.

[Joey Mack]

So I was curious about this headlight topic..  Yes TJC, LED headlights are legal..  The D.O.T./N.T.S.B. says that any headlight can be no brighter than 3000 Lumens..  I figured I would post this, in case someone needs the info before converting their truck..  Jojo

[mowerman]

Wow, whatever happened to candlepower I guess that’s Yesterdays news. Thanks for that Joey….

[Joey Mack]

👍  Good Morning Bob

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[mowerman]

Good morning bud we’re doing a 5K walk this morning. Wife is running. I am walking just woke up.Bob

[Joey Mack]

God Bless you both..   I'm going to try to get in better shape this year, I pulled my canoe out of the back corner and fixed it up..  along with some fishing poles..  figure I can mix a nice day on the water with some excersize..  Ooopps.. I'm sidetracking again..   

[tjc transport]

besides the explorer, 3 F550's in work, and the two Kenworth T880's with LED headlights, i also put a set of LED sealed beam replacements in the 04 F350. 

difference is i aim the lights low so they do not blind anyone. and NEVER use high beams. 

[mowerman]

 Don’t worry bud I got your back ha ha your idea sounds less stressful but there always a really good time great crowd, then beer and food afterwards then we’re going to a birthday party after for a 30 year old that I have to be in bed by seven for back to work Monday 

[mowerman]

1 minute ago, tjc transport said:

besides the explorer, 3 F550's in work, and the two Kenworth T880's with LED headlights, i also put a set of LED sealed beam replacements in the 04 F350. 

difference is i aim the lights low so they do not blind anyone. and NEVER use high beams. 

Hardly anybody thinks of that these days that’s the ticket

[fjh]

I was talking with our sales guy this week due to shortages the and available parts to build diesel powered units he has sold and ordered  ten of the E version of the TE for garbage packers that Can be built by the summer of this year all other diesel powered units are un available till next year! Makes me wonder if this shortage is just the Mack side or is Volvo as a whole! Very suspicious in my mind! ! I find it odd that they can find enough ECU's  and stuff to build electronic trucks but not enough to build a simple Diesel unit that has been in production for years!

Conspiracy???? Evil  lerks  here!😡

[mrsmackpaul]

Dunno, I think the tin foil hat is about to be put on 

There is huge supply issues on just about everything these days, from basic hand tools to full size trucks, to new houses 

I think it is companies dont want to carry stock

After all the economy is about stuffed at the moment according to the media yet no one can get workers

Back in the late 80's early 90's when the economy went tits up there was no work about anywhere, I  went fruit picking, working on cattle stations, scrub pulling and just about anything you could think of, got a job trying to sell insurance and another one answering phones, wasnt any good at either of those

Picked a lot of cherrie tomatos and zucchini, watermelons and pumkins, squashand on and on it went

There was just nothing about at all

Now there's signs up everywhere with companies chasing workers

 

Paul

 

[mowerman]

Wow what a  handy hustle communist pigs have got us all following along like duck let’s 

[fjh]

18 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Dunno, I think the tin foil hat is about to be put on 

There is huge supply issues on just about everything these days, from basic hand tools to full size trucks, to new houses 

I think it is companies dont want to carry stock

After all the economy is about stuffed at the moment according to the media yet no one can get workers

Back in the late 80's early 90's when the economy went tits up there was no work about anywhere, I  went fruit picking, working on cattle stations, scrub pulling and just about anything you could think of, got a job trying to sell insurance and another one answering phones, wasnt any good at either of those

Picked a lot of cherrie tomatos and zucchini, watermelons and pumkins, squashand on and on it went

There was just nothing about at all

Now there's signs up everywhere with companies chasing workers

 

Paul

 

There might be something to what you say here Paul Maybe the evil empire knows something we do not! If truck sales cave in then they will be sitting pretty! How ever At this point the demand is solid ! the sales man said if some one backs out on a sale  there are two more standing in line to take over!

[Dirtymilkman]

On 3/9/2023 at 2:52 PM, mrsmackpaul said:

Gotta agree Joey

As time goes more and more people will choose EV's but some never will

I reckon the same thing would of happened when motor cars replaced the horse 

I dont reckon we should force anyone to change at all

If these are all they are made out to be we will choose them anyway 

Paul

 

Actually Motor cars replaced electric cars! If history keeps repeating itself, we are gonna be riding horses again!  

[Dirtymilkman]

On 3/12/2023 at 8:13 AM, Joey Mack said:

God Bless you both..   I'm going to try to get in better shape this year, I pulled my canoe out of the back corner and fixed it up..  along with some fishing poles..  figure I can mix a nice day on the water with some excersize..  Ooopps.. I'm sidetracking again..   

Did you give the canoe a tune up? New injectors and set valve lash?

[Joey Mack]

Yes, and a new turbo... 

[mechohaulic]

now some way or other this canoe with new turbo is tied into the new breed Mack topic  other wise canoe is going up stream without a paddle  LMAO ,🤣. there must be a bulldog on front of canoe.

[Joey Mack]

I do have a rookie rod bulldog that I can put on it.. thanks for the idea, Mech. 

[Terry T]

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/

[Bullheaded]

On 3/16/2023 at 8:49 AM, Dirtymilkman said:

Actually Motor cars replaced electric cars! If history keeps repeating itself, we are gonna be riding horses again!  

Maybe the dinosaurs will be coming back too after this cycle of "climate change"

After all, it has already happened before despite the enviroMENTALists closing their eyes to that fact.

[BOBWhite]

One think that I forgot to mention about another American company acquiring Mack is the revival of Mack off road trucks. Even if they were just a Mack paint scheme on a Caterpillar haul truck model I think it would be cool to see since they've been dead since the 70s. An all Mack haul truck seems like a dream. 

[Hayseed]

On 3/17/2023 at 1:01 AM, mechohaulic said:

other wise canoe is going up stream without a paddle

[mrsmackpaul]

Well if the dinosaurs do at least toilet paper wont be a issue if Covid returns

 

https://fb.watch/jl2zDaRWvY/?mibextid=RUbZ1f

 

Paul