PeterMack

How about some cabovers. Must have been at least 50 or more there this year.

It is replacing the Pete. Sucks. I love that Pete. I take it you were in Oswego IL. I know they are filming in Chicago right now.

Some nice looking brand X'ers.

Thank you.

An interesting ride. Somebody out there is gonna have to do this to an R-model.

More Macks

I went to the Big Iron Classic in Kasson MN a month ago already (little late on the pics, been busy) and saw quite a few Macks. This is held in a small town just west of Rochester and it is a great show. It was said that there were 500 trucks there this year. This is a non award show so alot of really cool trucks show up. Everything from show trucks to stuff that just got pulled out of the weeds. Lots to look at, great show.

Great shots, got a friend with a 78 MB, gonna have to pass these pics along to him.

A friend of mine took this pic last year of these dozers lined up in the morning getting ready to roll. He was running the one with the bigger blade. All three were knocking down a huge wood chip pile that started on fire. They had to spread it out while several different fire departments were there to put out the fire.

Went last year with BCR Al and a couple others and we all had a blast. Great show. Don't know if I liked the show trucks more or all the old iron around there more. To any Mack fan that has never been it is well worth the trip. Can't make it this year but hope to be back in the future.

A friend of mine took this pic of a CAT loader that was sitting a little to high on this step deck. I guess the driver only made it down the road a couple miles before the first bridge made short work of this tractor.

Saw this 330 CAT working hard at an ethanol plant in WI the other day.

I took that a couple years ago and I can't remember, but I can bet its still in the same spot.

Since the Government isn't providing all services we all get a tax break right? Ha!

I'm not sure what kind of backhoe this is, but as you can see it is meticulously cared for and locked up tight, don't want that gem walking off.

My buddy was feeling the same way, the more he thinks about it the more he gets pissed about it. The tirds that stole this stuff are doing more than just stealing, they're messing with a person and business's lively hood.

You got that right about the o/o thing. As it is my friends company he works at is only a 15 truck fleet and two of them were in the shop this week for other issues, so this really screwed them over, they are not afraid to buy nice trucks but they definitely don't need to be replacing stuff like this. They have a deductible on their insurance like everybody else, plus they had to bobtail another truck down there to get this one, so even if insurance picks up most of this they are still gonna have to come up with a few grand to cover the rest and now KW is saying it could be up to 30 days before the new doors arrive. That could easily end an o/o business.

There used to be one in Mayflower colors parked in a storage lot in Crystal Lake at 31 and 14 for many years but I have not seen it recently, I think the Ryder truck I posted is owned or at least borrowed by the I-80 group now.

I'm gonna say this definitely qualifies as an "other truck".

Quality Inn, exit 53.

He was parked in a side lot where the cameras were not facing. I guess they had some to the front but not to the back.

Their other trucks have two speed rears, but with that you cannot have full lockers, so for the new one they got the aux trans for the lo lo out of the mud and can have full lockers for better traction. They routinely haul up to 250,000lbs so they wanted the best of both worlds.

That's what I thought. It was still dark when my friend was walking to the truck and he was wondering why he could see the green light on the dash, and it was because the damn doors were gone!

This is picture of my friends 2013 T800 wide hood Kenworth. He just got it earlier this year and it has all the bells and whistles. 600 Cummins, 18speed Eaton with Aux trans, 4 axle, all durabrights, diamond plate full fenders, and black painted to match cabinet with stainless doors, full lockers and the list goes on. He was moving some machinery in Marion IL (way south) and parked at a hotel for the night only to walk out to the truck the next morning to find that someone had stolen his doors. Stole the damn doors! Took his bluetooth and big wad of keys he had for machines and a couple other things. He had to have the truck hauled back to the shop. The doors had power locks, windows, moto mirror controls and keyless entry. They called Kenworth for replacements and got an even better suprize. $13,500 to replace them. So if anybody comes across some like new, black Kenworth doors in the S. ILLINOIS area, they're stolen!

Great looking truck. Nice work. I always wanted to make the R-model tanker from the Road Warrior. I always liked that truck with the tall duel stacks. Was nice till Mel Gibson flopped it over. Be cool to have one in the states with right hand drive.