PeterMack

Well my son entered a pic of the 90 R model my boss bought in the Mack calendar contest on the Mack face book site so far one vote for "daily driver" nice lol

I think we need a picture of it here.

A friend of mine worked at a company that had these, and the company encouraged drivers to tattle on the other drivers who did not have them deployed

going down the road. The only problem was that guys were forgetting they were out and would back into a spot at the truck stop, back to back with another

truck for example and crush them on the other truck. My friend figured if they were saving anything on fuel with these things they lost it all in repairs replacing

them constantly.

Here are a couple Mack's I saw out and about last week.

I have a 673T with a straight pipe. In my opinion the truck is just noisy in general and a muffler wouldn't do much for it.

I like the way it sounds though. Ordered my pipe through Mutual Wheel and had the bracket custom made. I think the

pipe was only like $150 or something like that. Was a few years ago when I put it on.

Common sense should have told this guy something was wrong, but I guess if the GPS (getting people stranded) tells you

to jump off a cliff then..................oh nevermind!

http://abc7chicago.com/news/man-drives-semi-over-2-pedestrian-bridges-gets-stuck-blames-gps/395218/

You can try Macholl metals in Garden Prairie. Cross over the tracks on Garden Prairie RD and he is on the left. Can make half or full

fenders with brackets. He has smooth or diamond plate. I have a set of smooth ones for my Pete, they are easier to polish. Harmony

metal in Gilberts might still make them and I think Nagel in Batavia might also, not %100 on that though. RG Smith used to make

them but they are out of business now. I think Heil on 47th st in McCook might still make them also.

I've never seen these trucks before. Where do they run?

Like Brad said Maywood. Here, you can watch one run.

Did they go out of business?

Oh yeah, they're done. Found a picture of one of the Granites at Ritche Bros.

Got a couple pictures of the S&K trucks last year. Saw the RD in Yorkville and the Granite at County Line & 64. Took a picture of their

monster truck a few years ago in Seneca.

Who are you? Have I seen you before? I work out of boughton alot. Schoger is my name

Haven't seen me? Oh man. I've seen you a few times. Must be cuz I'm in a Peterbilt I got snubbed. I'm not down by

Boughton's to much. Usually all over the place. I've seen you at ECS in Kaneville though.

I agree with much of this article, but I will say that most of this driver shortage problem is brought on by the industry itself. Who wants to live like a

nomad for little pay when, like the article says you can sit on your ass at home for just a little less. Life on the road is expensive and driver pay does

not reflect in my opinion. Seems like the industry solution has been to hire foreigners and any dummy that they can run through a three week training

course and hold a steering wheel. There is nothing special about trucking anymore. The kids nowadays have no idea about trucks or manual labor

for that matter. I'm 35 and been driving for 15 years now and been around it all my life and for the past 15 years I've been the youngest guy wherever

I've worked. Kinda sad, hardly anybody is coming up behind me, but on the other hand why would they. I love trucks, but trucking sucks! I came across

a great article about why the younger generation is not getting into trucking in Overdrive. Here is the link. I think the guy is spot on.

http://www.overdriveonline.com/trucking-or-not-with-the-twenty-somethings/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=02-17-2015&utm_campaign=OVD&ust_id=c225c79954

I see Jimmy working for Hager down here by us sometimes

Yep, I think he was in Lisle today and tomorrow. We usually have five or six trucks with Hager full time. I'll be with them tomorrow but at another location.

Just watch out for that purple and white Pete out there. I think he just graduated from driving school, lol

By the way, BJ showed my pics of your trailer. Looks really good.

Been running with BJ all week. Hauling dirt with him and a few others tomorrow. Thanks on the trailer, took about 45 hours to get that done.

Went way better than expected, but now I'm pulling the steel dump so the aluminum is just sitting there looking pretty at the moment. That

red R at Rockford Mack used to belong to Herron topsoil. We used to haul pulverized dirt for them before they closed up. If you know or see

Jimmy Burke that works with us he has Herron's old Pete.

Looks good to me, nothing wrong with some modern technology. Autometer's are made about 10 min from my house.

I even have one in the B-model.

I was talking to one of my cousins today and he was telling me about a poster that his brother was in and I was wondering if anyone on here has seen it before. He can't remember much about it and his brother passed away in '93 so we can't get any info from him. I guess it was done for the Chicago Bears in '86 after they won the Super Bowl. He remembers that they wanted a Mack truck so they contacted his brother, but for some reason it was hooked to a tank and they never pulled tank for work. Just Van trailers. all he remembers about the poster was it was taken in a dark ally and it had the Bears logo on it. He has no idea what the promotion was for.

if anyone knows what this poster was I would love any info on it.

I have never seen anything like that. I looked around on the interweb machine and found one poster of Jim McMahon that said Mad Mac on it.

If you look to his right and straight back it appears to be an R-model but I can't tell for sure. The story might check out though. I'm thinking they

were going for a play on the "Mad Max, Road Warrior" theme and that would make sense as to why they wanted the Mack to be pulling a tanker

so it mimicked the movie. Maybe this is how the poster turned out after it was all said and done. I'm sure its all photo shopped anyway, I doubt

there was a small bear walking by McMahon's feet. It's probably 10 pictures smashed into one poster. Maybe I'm wrong and there is another one

out there. I bet the actual pictures are out there in the world somewhere.

that weinermobile must get around... it was at the mall in Albany Ny on Saturday.....

I've heard it was built on a Superliner chassis with an E9 and a Mack 12 speed with 2.36 rears. ............Nah, I made all that shit up.

That would be Stan Leman. He has Gravy train, an R6xx, 2 superliners(one I just posted a video of) and the CH E9. All very, very nice trucks.

Stan has not been real active in our chapter the last year or so(I haven't either for that matter).

Here is the V8 Super:

His blue daily driver is sticking out the left side of the picture.

He had the Superliners at the ATHS show in South Bend a couple years ago. I took pictures of them. Beautiful trucks.

Hmmm rout47?

Yes. 47 & 52