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Will definetkt be heavy with the big rears and triple frame.

We went and took a look at it.

They no longer use that. Bought a new T800 with the slope nose. Just put it in service a few months ago.

McClure RD # 95 is also ex Rawson. Rawson used to have a bunch of CL's and a couple of vision tractors Red and black. Before that they had some R dumps pulling pup dump trailers(odd for CT). Towards the end of the Mack era they had a few red and black Granites and one light blue Granite.

Town of Southbury runs a fleet of these alongside Internationals. Heavy duty plow for sure.

I havn't seen a Rawson truck in a couple of years. Are they O & G colors now. Does Rawson have any Macks left?

Was in the pit the other day and it looks like they got a new-ish Granite water truck to replace their DM.

Already broke though, has the do not use sticker on the door and sitting next to the shop. Good timing,

to cold to use it anyway.

Looks like it has 24" rubber on it

We just go one for our '88 e6. was around 400 or 500. And it was in stock

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So Matt, are a lot of towns in Conn going with 350-550's? The four newest trucks in my town are 350/450 dumps-including 2 crew cabs (so they can lug the summer hires around cutting grass.) With about 40" of snow in the last two weeks I see the weak point in these trucks- great for going down the middle of the road, but the roads get narrower and narrower and narrower. IMO, takes a big blade and weight to get the sides pushed back. Also I'm out with my Deere cleaning up end of drive as well as around mailboxes and one of the super duties goes by. He throws a little windrow but the surface of the road shows no change to speak of. Ten minutes later one of the International 4900's goes by with a big blade. You can see the difference in the packed snow cover.

No doubt the "One tons" are like half the price and do a good job cleaning up intersections etc but the repeat storms we have had IMO show their limitations.

For the most part Bob everyone is still running big trucks. During the last few storms i noticed our town for one has had contractors working with super dutys which do an ok job. One good thing i have to say about them is that when we had the blizzard of 2013 the town had super dutys with v-blades that opened the roads up no problem and then they'd push it back with the Macks. But for the most part everyone is sticking with class 8 trucks. A few towns have gotten the 650s and equivalent. Dont know how good of a job they do though. I guess theres pros and cons to both. A superduty is much cheaper to operate id imagine with a non-CDL driver and a automatic (as long as it has a cooler) so you dont need as qualified of a person.

As for 4 door trucks, the state has a bunch of internationals that are 4 door.

Where are the wing plows? I own 2 Double wingers so I get more money for that

Our state doesn't pay that much more for a wing plow. They have the double wings on their 10 wheelers anyways

were good for 76k in CT with the permit. 73k without it. Truck must be able to handle it (20k fromt, 20 lift, 44 rears) to be able to get permit. If it isnt a construction material your knocked down to 67,400. 10 wheelers are legal for 54k i think. 80k on a trailer with either the permit or the bridge law allows it.

I know it's not Chicago, but saw these cool Macks with Red River belt body's on them like my belt trailer instead of dump boxes. They were paving a parking lot across from the office for the condo units we were checking into in Orlando FL. I went over and talked to them. They were very nice, but they were company drivers so they didn't know much about owner operators. It was funny though. I asked him if they ever use semis for paving. He laughed and said, oh no. These parking lots are too small for them. You should have seen the look on his face when I told him we do it all the time, and some parking lots are smaller then that one, lol

Funny because that company is from Massachusetts and uses their dump trailers for everything. They should send the Florida guys up north for a week.

From what ive read the 6.0 in Interantional trucks were good motors because they didnt have as much emissions on them. Because superduties are a lower weight class they needed more emissions therefore the problems.

The only thing that was keeping it out of the Granite was an agreement with Allison. Some of the engineers at the assembly plant were talking about this move, but this a lot earlier than they were talking about. And if you think this transmission is bad, just wait until you see the new redesign of the Granite.

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A guy I know compared the new Paccar cab to the same of a freightliner. Said its all plastic and cheaply built. He drives a Granite. They look ugly in my opinion

Channel 8 eye candy during snow storm. Three Cherry Hill single axle Mack snow plows in a row. An rd and 2 r's.Nice. Good job plow drivers.

^{Ok ill admit I sure don't know everything about U models so would someone tell me where the air cleaner is on this truck?}

looks like behind the fuel tank

Our 84 has a galvanized cab

That's why Lee made the BIG BUCK$. Did you know there is a K car club? Other than the organizer, I wonder how many members?

We got a couple feet in southern New England....weather men had a field day with this one. There was a state travel ban put in place for everyone except essential personnel. Police, Fire, doctors, nurses, plow trucks, etc.....then they included news reporters??? I'm curious when news reporters became essential personnel???

At least the old ford is still on top.