Chuck P

Where in NJ are you?

Bordentown / Columbus area. Right near the Manheim Car Auction. Yeah, I saw how Mantoloking got hammered. It made a new inlet right near the bridge. I don't want to see another one of those storms in my lifetime....one is plenty.

Welcome from central Jersey! This is a great place, nice people, and lots of tall tales.

Hey, Brick! I hope you fared well during Sandy. I have friends on Drum Point Rd that had water damage and are now just getting back to normal.

Wow, I've seen the Allentown tanker and it is impressive to say the least. I went to high school in that sleepy little town many moons ago.

If I remember correctly, Penske used to have some Macks. Do you know Ken McKibben?

I work out of the South Plainfield NJ shop and the only Macks that were around here were older CH single axles for Jersey Paper. Sorry, I don't know Ken.

Welcome aboard Chuck! i was born and raised in South Jersey,a little town named Elmer,my families been in the trucking business for over 100 years!

I know where Elmer is. You were pretty far south of me. National Freight was out of that area and hauled a lot of glass for Wheaton and other glass outfits...and S-J Transport from Woodstown. Elmer also had a dump trailer builder IIRC, White was it?

Welcome! I recognize that Century from some chemical company.

Got any Volvo pics? OMG I can't believe I just asked that.

The Century Midroof is from Reagent Chemical in Middlesex NJ. They haul molten Sulpur and other good stuff like that.

Thanks for the warm welcome!

My name is Chuck and I look forward to many inciteful conversations on this fine board.

I have been a member of the ATHS since attending my first national convention in Marlboro, Massachusetts.

I don't have a Mack truck but I have been a fan of them since I was a little kid. I grew up around them having lived in the central Jersey hotbed of paving, construction and trash removal. Macks were everywhere. I used to admire the neighbor's clean fleet of DM600 and DM800 dump trucks, all with Bristol-Donald bodies. The asphalt plant that my dad worked at had an equally impressive fleet of DM800s that stood in the shadow of the Edison Bridge in Keasbey. The pride of the fleet was a massive single-axle B-81 used for lowboy work.

I try to attend as many local and not so local truck events that I can.... my favorites being Macungie and Gerhart's Equipment in Lititz, PA. Often I have my 12 year old son and father tagging along. I am very fortunate to be involved in the Metro Jersey Chapter of the ATHS which gives us access to the impressive Mahan Collection.

I collect truck brochures and pictures and have a large collection of books in my library relating to trucks and trucking company history.

I work P/T for Penske Truck Leasing and maintain a Class A CDL. No Macks in the Penske fleet, just a bunch of Freightshakers and Navistars.

I found an old Overdrive (January 1969) article with a similar rig. If it is the same truck, it could explain the reason for lack of air tanks and battery box.

Vision 386, if you didn't have modern cars parked in the lot I wouldn't have believed you. That is a holdover from the old days and I remember them fondly.