2stacksuperdog

Yeah but doesn't putting air ride in a antique take away from restoring it to original condition.

I would say just trace it back

I would lower it for the weekend and take the weight off the truck for the period. Heres one way to take the weight of for the weekend.

To bad he got rid of the rest of his Macks besides his one DM and superliner. He keeps them all spotless

I can see if you pull a lowbed all the time at most 450-500 but if in a tri-axle all you need is 400 because you really cant stop those anyway

My question is why the need for all this big horsepower? You get to the top of a hill doing 80mph and then you cant stop the truck. The brakes are not any bigger than they were 40yrs ago so next thing you know your going down an hill and cant stop and you kill someone then what.

Question for the heavy haulers. If this was your rig and load, parked for the weekend, would you set the deck on the ground?

It depends if you truck is air ride or spring and if your on asphalt or dirt. If air ride i would say OK but if spring take weight off and if on hot asphalt find sturdy dirt.

Pete Marlowe N. Guilford, CT

Thanks 2stack for some explanation...but why the shorter fenders?

I think maybe for better turning? if they put the long fenders on then they would use regular bumper instead of one on it also they are that same fender as steel nose r-models use so...

Suzio is still owned by the Suzio family. They bought out Beard Concrete of Milford.

Bob- I was just thinking you might be thinking about Tomasso who was bought out by Ashland Oil of England who now go's under as Tilcon. They had a lot of B-models and DM800s too at one time.

Nice looking trucks. Dumb question (to the novice truck identifier)...Why the difference in the front fenders? Both trucks look the same for front axle placement and hood/radiator. But the top truck has short fenders and the bottom long fenders. Reason?

Thanks for the edumencation!

The bottom one is a DM800 which is made for any motor like a superliner or RD800 but with offset cab. The top one is a RM which means it is all wheel drive R-model which all had mainly Mack motors in them. Also the axles are set back in both.

The gold dog means the truck was built with all mack components, Ex.- engine, transmission, rears, springs

A lot of the 'old Mack' engineers are still there teaching the youngins what it means to produce a Mack engine to be proud of.

It is still nothing like the good old mechanicals.

So Matt- Are all those boneyard trucks the property of the new owners OR do they belong to the Suzio family???

Usually when one of these big foreign outfits take over they clean house-no sentimentality over old trucks-its scrap value to them.

Suzio is still owned by the Suzio family. They bought out Beard Concrete of Milford.

Are those guys for real,do they ever get rid of anything.We have a contractor down here in Philly,that kept everything up till he had an auction back in 87-88.He still has some old b's but he is slowly getting rid of them all.I will be checking up to see what he has left.

Yep from what i know they only scrapped 2 Rightway mixers besides that everything is in the quarry. they reorganized a lot of it over the summer.

I like how the lowbed still has a load on it.

I think Suzio has one of the best collections around here considering its all their OWN trucks.

Operating Engineers Training Meriden, CT

$3500 O.B.O

S.V.S LLC Plantsville,CT

They are sitting in North Haven by Barnick's. They're both old Stamford Demolition Trucks I don't know if they are for sale but they are both not in bad shape. There is no rot in the cabs but the frame in the b-model has a lot of rust. Most of the heavy duty R-model I have seen are town trucks but Pratt & Whitney use to have 5 R-model tractors like this with plows only a lot newer in North Haven. They were never used but that was 11 years ago when they moved out so I don't know what happened to them.

How much weight are you putting on a 385 to blow it? and whats the brand, I have run Michelin, Yokohama,Dunlop, Bridgestone and Good Year 385's and 425's and never had one go bad, the 385's are good for over 19,000 on a steer axle, the 425's are over 21000# (for a pair of each). I think we have run steers well over 20k when you have a tri-axle dump with 74,000-84,000 gross on a 16' bed and you pick up the tag your running on just the steer and drives, I have never blown a steer tire, I have cut one or two on shot rock but never blown em, I have had well over 25,000 on my steer with 385's and 11R24.5's. Guess I was lucky all these years.

In CT most of the roll overs from blown tires are 385's. We only run 425 Michelin on our tri-axle steers. Most of the construction companies in CT have switched over to 425's and don't have any problems. We run 76,500 gross. They last a lot longer and are safer. Maybe CT's roads are a lot rougher?