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  1. Got ya DDD, next time you are in Philly, message me, and I will let you know of any big construction sites to check out. Like I said lots of work going on in the city.

    Mike D, I think the smallest crane JDM has at their yard is a Link-Belt LS58, you can see it in the background of some of my pics with the cab door open. I always thought they had Larger B & E cranes, but they do use smaller cranes at their quarries as "Skull-Crackers". They use a weight to crush rocks so they can be picked up with a loader. Most of these types of cranes are parked. The only older cranes they use are Draglines at their sand pits.

  2. I do not think VW should buy Mack. VW has screwed enough things up, and I would think they would kill the Mack Brand. I would rather see a company such as Oshkosh buy Mack. Here are my reasons,

    Pros: 

    • Oshkosh is really good at growing their brands that they have acquired.
    • Since Oshkosh owns other brands such as McNeilus, IMT, Jerr-Dan, and Pierce, they can make fully equipped vocational trucks direct from the factory by streamlining the body building process.
    • McNeilus, an Oshkosh Brand makes natural gas powered systems for trucks, that could introduce this technology in Mack Trucks. This would be very beneficial in the cabover vocational market since the majority of new refuse trucks ordered are natural gas powered.
    • Oshkosh is already known for making durable and tough products so they would be very good at continuing the Mack Bulldog tough tradition, and slogan.
    • May Cross Mack and Oshkosh products to create new product lines, especially in the municipal, construction, waste,and fire/rescue vocations.

    Cons:

    • May Discontinue Mack/Volvo Engines and Components, and go the Cummins Route. May be a pro because It may attract fleets that run all Cummins products.
    • May Integrate Mack Defense products with Oshkosh Defense products since they are already heavily involved in government contracts
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  3. On 6/14/2016 at 6:02 PM, xdudebrahx said:

    The company with the silver trucks is Petrongolo out of Jersey.  Their stuff is kinda rough looking, but I see it often.  Those AP tandems only seem to come out to plow.

    Yea I know I see them often too, they mostly do utility work for the City of Philadelphia. Some of their newer Granites are better looking. I follow the local union heavy-highway construction industry quite a bit around here. It is quite cool to see one large family operate 3 separate construction companies including AP, JPC, and Petrongolo Contractors and all are very successful.

    AP has a lot of trucks, they have about 4-5 of those DM800s, and a Superliner but it is setup as attenuator truck. They used to have more DM800's, but when JPC spun-off from them they took at least one.

    I also noticed too that ABC Construction has been fixing up their fleet of lately. They junked several dump bodies on the RD's and put new steel ones on. The dump truck for hire service has really been booming around here.

  4. Thanks Dan for correcting me I know they deffientely had the word sun in the name lol. I have also been seeing a bunch of Mastrocola trucks latley, and a company called Dibella although they have newer Macks.

    I think BRN is a WBE division of ABC. A lot of large scale construction projects require a certain amount of WBE participation since it is helping a minorty or women owned business. I see a lot with other companies do the same thing including Dinardo/Bella, R.P. Blair/Invyland Construction, etc.

  5. Definitely used to be a service truck. Looks like it still has a lot of good parts left on it. Reminds me of that Red lube truck from A To Z Auto Lubricants in Levittown. I bet they could use another truck.

    I hate when I see this too, there are some many other options to get rid of a truck like this rather then scraping it, you can sell it as it, part it out, export it, etc.

  6. Forgot to mention that Mount Construction in Berlin NJ has an Ex Miller and Sons Paving Rd Dump truck. Seen it about a year ago. Been seeing a lot of Cat Trucks from them, I guess they like them (until they end up in the shop with the Maxxforce engines :rolleyes: ).

    -Mike D looks like Buckley got some equipment in their yard, they are working on the Boluevard at the Pennypack circle. Kinda cool to see some old equipment in your yard again.

  7. WOW. Just saw a beautiful B model tandem working the Walsh job on 95 with an ABC driver in it. I wish I got a pic.

    Seen that same truck several times today too. I originally seen it back in the Summer the night of the Macungie show on Street road in Bensalem, figured maybe someone from the area had the truck at the show, and it was coming home for the night. Then I seen it today working. That is really nice looking B-81, that has a nice growl to it!

  8. Those two old ABC Macks would look nice with a new coat of paint. Walsh also has H & K hauling for them too, you could usually see a two or three truck convoy in or near Cottman Ave.

    I know they haul more stone and sand, but MJF Materials, and Levari Trucking in NJ Has a huge fleet of Tri-axles. I see Jesse Baro around too.

    There is also Rittenbaugh who got a lot of construction Tri-Axle Dump Trucks

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