PeterMack

Looks like fun. I have run my Pete in a couple truck pulls. Can see how it can be addictive. Can't get to carried away

when you gotta make sure it gets to work the next morning.

This is from a 1990 issue of Overdrive Magazine. Comes with a nice story also. Gotta wonder what has happened

to this truck in the last 23 years?

I also have taken pictures of that truck. My wife couldn't understand why I even turned around to do it.

I had to get a picture of it also. If the grass were lower you could see the rest of it better. It has a bunch of stickers

all over that talk about Polish history, although they are quite sun faded. That's why I wondered if this was some elaborate

parade float at one time. I just wanna know how fast it will go before all the crap starts blowing off of it.

I've known where this truck has been sitting for a couple years, finally had some time to swing in

and get a picture of it today. Not sure why somebody did this to this poor truck. It is pulling a

container chassis with a small house on it and then it looks like they decided to put an addition

on the truck. I'm gonna guess it was used in a parade and then forgotten about. I'm open to other

guess's though.

Here's a good wrecked one I know you guys will enjoy. No operator error here though. This was a trucker fail. Guy had this

loaded to high on his trailer and slammed into a bridge with it. I'm assuming he had it on a flatbed as this is a small machine

and the bridge he hit is about 14ft high, but I didn't get to see it at the scene, just the aftermath. Bent the boom, knocked it

off the trailer and into the median, knocked the track off. Was a new machine, whoops!

Saw this Link Belt on Friday. Somebody smashed the side access panel real good.

Love the rant, your not alone in your feelings, thats for certain. I've been at it for 13 years now, did the o/o thing, did ok

but at the end of the day it was just a paycheck for a ton of work and headaches. Was not expecting to get rich but

making a living would be nice. If you become a company driver you can trade the Vision in on a B or R model and

go cruising. I have more fun doing that kind of trucking. Best of luck.

Saw this one at the national ATHS show in South Bend In a couple years ago. Nice wheelbase on it.

Here is a service truck from a local construction company that looks like it was involved in an accident.

That was a great looking truck. I also remember seeing around Chicagoland a few times. I know somebody has a nice picture

of it up on Hanks, but I can't remember who has it. Shame it burned.

This is out of a 1990 issue of Overdrive Magazine. Beautiful truck, wonder if it's still working.

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Here is a 335 Pete at Louisville from a couple years back.

Aight got a pic, here's my 2011 Freightliner M2 106, its a P.O.S. got a 6k crane, 6.7-240hp Cummins and a 6spd Eaton, crap body, the only real nice thing on it is the Lincoln 305D welder its nice.

I love the honesty. Funny.

Nice, my Dad had an 87 Value Liner. One of the last ones made. Was my favorite Mack that he owned. Was also

the last Mack he owned. When he got rid of it the CH's were coming out and he wasn't real thrilled with them so he

switched to brand X.

Your in Bettendorf? We are sitting here in Davenport waiting on shaker to get the oil pan back on my truck

I was this morning for about 20min to drop off a flatbed, and 18min of that was B.S---ing with the guy that bought it and

then I bobtailed back before all the weekend warrior idiots woke up.

Maybe they scoop gravel from the river.

I don't think that thing could reach the bottom right now. The Mississippi is really high.

On my trip to Bettendorf IA today I went through Moline IL where I spotted this 359 Pete. I have seen it sitting there before

but had never got a shot of it. Wish I could get a closer look but did not want to trespass. This is a beautiful looking truck

from the street. Very clean.

Here is a 350D Deere with a swamp stick I saw in Bettendorf IA today. Was at a little gravel pit right on the Mississippi River.

I'm gonna guess that maybe they get their material from a barge and they use this machine to pull it out. Although it would

seem to have a small bucket for that.

This 230 Deere is digging out for a new concrete foundation for a new grain bin.

A D8 the local CAT dealer brought out to a truck/tractor show in Mchenry IL.

People were walking dozers of the trailer over scale and into yard and walking away because no work and needing money.

You got that right! I think there has been alot of trucks and tractors cut up the last few years.