Popular Post mowerman Posted October 16 Popular Post Share Posted October 16 5 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navypoppop Posted October 16 Share Posted October 16 Looks like the one on display at the Va. Transportation Museum in Roanoke I believe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechohaulic Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 picture of the good ole better days. don't want to show my age;;; but worked on those when they ran the highways .LOL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 17 Author Share Posted October 17 Well when I started driving trucks there was still alotta them out there … bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 17 Author Share Posted October 17 14 hours ago, navypoppop said: Looks like the one on display at the Va. Transportation Museum in Roanoke I believe. People on here have posted that before computer image photos usually don’t come out very good those trucks had really cool colors now they’re T force and painted about as boring as you can get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 Cool looking unit! Thanks for sharing 1 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post D2Denny Posted October 18 Popular Post Share Posted October 18 The B in the photo is B42T18854 originally sold to Krantz paving in Buffalo NY in 1960. The chassis was stretched and a distribution body installed. It was only used in the summer paving season. In the 80's it was sold to Strawser Paving in Columbus Ohio. I purchased it from them (106,000 miles on the odometer) in 1994 and during restoration, shortened it back up to tractor configuration. It has a Magnadyne EN401 150 HP engine and the "baby quad" TRQ77. After swapping out the original 5.57 rear for a 4.33, I drove it to many shows in and around Ohio and its neighboring states. In 2003 I sold it to Overnight Transportation. They had their Shop paint it in Overnight livery and matched it up with their SS Trailer. It was a great running, quiet, and comfortable truck that cruised easily at highway speeds. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2Denny Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 (edited) As a follow up, this complete unit was just recently acquired by the Keystone Truck and Tractor Museum from the Virginia Transportation Museum. When UPS purchased Overnight they loaned/donated the rig to the Virginia museum as they transitioned all the Overnight fleet to UPS Freight livery. Also, this truck was featured in the coffee table book "Mack, Driven for a Century" Edited October 18 by D2Denny addition 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 Wow, thanks for that. I just assumed it was one of overnights tractors to begin with. I ran with a lot of those drivers out of Reno. Most of them have retired. I only keep in touch with one of them over there now which is T force now UPS bought overnight and motor cargo and combined them then sold them off so the one Driver I keep in touch with at T force actually drove for motor cargo now the latest Fedex corporation is thinking about spinning off Fedex Freight and get this that division is making more than the rest of the package division not sure why they’re considering selling up when they are doing the best of the rest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 OK now I’m walking all over my own tread. I just thought I would add with this shitty economy. Fedex package is not doing the business. They did when the economy was booming. The package division was actually doing better than the Freight now it’s the other way around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 But then again, I think Amazon has pretty much taken over retail and delivery, so UPS is not doing as well as they used to either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 Bob, Yes with Amazon having their own trucking I can see where it is hurting both UPS and FedEx.. I have about 100 shares of FedEx stock, via Roadway Package Svc, which date back to the late 70's Roadway bonus stock I received by not going to work for another freight company (Matlack) when I quit being a Roadway dock foreman. Now I am curious as to how a spin off will give me shares in both companies??? Quote Brocky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 I don’t know, bud. It’s just talk right now, but it has something to do with the shareholders. Best interest. Also I almost went to work for roadway packing when I was a sub holler way back in the 80s. I don’t know why I didn’t go to work for them, even to this day, they are all owner operators even the package trucks delivery are all owner ops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 Oh, by the way, that’s when I was driving that 87U model Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseliner64 Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 Thats a cool B model.I never paid much attention to them untill I seen one in the flesh at the Mack show in Holland 2 weeks ago.Man they're as cool as ice.Real trucks..... Paul 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 19 Author Share Posted October 19 i was watching matlock yesterday,,,and there was one on the highway,,were ever they were camera stayed on it quite a while,,,,,they were everywhere in my area as a kid,,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 1961H67 Posted October 20 Popular Post Share Posted October 20 These things were everywhere in the middle 70s when I first got my license, just about every trucking company in Charlotte & Winston Salem ran them,, When they flooded the market with them when the Rs took over, I bought one for $2000 , That was the going price. ( My Dad in the late 60s ) 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 20 Author Share Posted October 20 Excellent and yes, it was a time long ago. You could buy them all day long for prices like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseliner64 Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 6 hours ago, 1961H67 said: These things were everywhere in the middle 70s when I first got my license, just about every trucking company in Charlotte & Winston Salem ran them,, When they flooded the market with them when the Rs took over, I bought one for $2000 , That was the going price. ( My Dad in the late 60s ) Excellent picture.you are rightly proud of that...B models are my new Mack interest after seeing that one in Holland.theyre so so cool.now i wonder if Mrs O'Brien would let me............ Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 20 Author Share Posted October 20 20 minutes ago, cruiseliner64 said: Excellent picture.you are rightly proud of that...B models are my new Mack interest after seeing that one in Holland.theyre so so cool.now i wonder if Mrs O'Brien would let me............ Paul. Ha ha we’re pretty much all have that issue Bubba… me? I’m too old now and I have no job. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 4 hours ago, mowerman said: me? I’m too old now and I have no job. your wife still works rite???? she can buy one for you.🤣 1 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 21 Author Share Posted October 21 She mostly cries I get to sit around all day and I make more than she does working ha ha I did mention I could sell my 2014 Mustang for $18,000 and find a pretty clean 64 galaxy she did not think that was a good idea 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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