Red Horse

Kevin I thought the Ford plant at Hermosillio (sp?) had a rep for very good build quality?? But in any case I've always wondered about the wisdom of investing huge sums in Mexico given instability in parts of the country..what keeps it from spreading? Think the cartels are going to concentrate on the poor areas-or go where the money is???

Isn't "Mopar"-you forgot that handle😎 - about offer a turbo inline 6? No clue on size-by the way-Ford should bring back their 300 six with a turbo.

KSC, I have to laugh-this Liebherr has been stationed close to the wreck so all the jackass reporters keep referring to this a s the "largest crane".. Meantime the "largest crane"- Chesapeake 1000 is anchored across the channel waiting.

This guy, Sal Cogliano is the best...don't waste your time listening to the typical news "reporters"

Well the bullshit is flying for sure..all the "bad news that means higher prices".... They talk about "Months" for the port being shut down. I saw an interview with a guy from the port authority. He said a 500 ton-yes 500- heavy lift crane will be on site Saturday. The wreckage is localized. The immediate need is to open the channel and they don't have to even remove everything-I would think just get it pulled aside into the shallows along side the bridge. Smit Salvage is a huge company based in Holland also with equipment in Houston. would not surprise me if they were underway yesterday. It would not surprise me if the channel was opened in `10 days. Then anyone see the genius from one of the "elite" schools? Guy had a heavy euro accent but he said words to effect.."not a problem, we have other east coast ports and also big ports on west coast". Guess what...any thing going through an east coast port is sourced through that port because that is what the distance from the source for outbound or the distance for the destination of inbound goods makes Baltimore the most economical port. Bottom line the biggest disruption will be the loss of the bridge to vehicular traffic..but the Port will be operating very soon..again my uneducated guess. So Sleepy Joe, you can stop blaming bad economic news on this tragedy. And KSC, you might be right on a an electronic hack but I would bet lousy fuel or bad fuel system maintenance will be the cause..can't imagine the filter system on a huge marine diesel is as simple as a Ph-8 Fram😎

FWD Thx for the radio info. Explains it all. I saw another clip that said they declared a Mayday with just 90 seconds before impact so quick action on PD in stopping traffic when they did was huge-no cars went in water just the poor souls working. Had this been a DOT crew they probably would have had radio contact but contractor crew-doubtful.

Nice! V-8 right? I'm confused though-you said 401. the big Binder V-8 was a 549, then there was a 478? then smallest one?? 401? ALSO ONE OF THE BIG SIXES WAS A 401???

the guy on "Whats going on in Shipping" had a screen image that showed ship in channel at 8 knots...that equals 9.2 MPH . Ship is 100,000 tonner..."talk about Mass in Motion". My first thought too on dropping anchor (s) and one report said one was dropped...but how close to bridge-plus anchors have to "bite".

Correct on power loss before impact. What I don't understand is, they managed to shut bridge down before impact but did not notify the crew that was on bridge patching potholes?? You can see their flashing yellow hazard lights as drifting ship was approaching. 3:55 just now Maryland gov is praising effort to shut down bridge access before impact. Confirms what I'm saying .... what about repair crew????

Two tugs got it away from berth. Looks like once ship was in channel it was on its own.

Go to "what's going on with Shipping". This is a guy who knows his stuff - no bullshit. From what he is saying this was a power failure as evidenced by heavy smoke when they refired. A real tragedy., Now we have to listen to Pete Buttigieg who usually doesn't know his ass from third base.

No 1 cause of all the violence and disrespect for law. But that fact gets ignored by too many "experts"

Correction I did some checking and in 93, they went to five axles and a 7,500 gal tank.

For sure Mack was using Allisons in DM's in late 60's. In New York city gasoline could only be hauled in a steel tank with max capacity of 3000 gallons. Can you imagine the number of trucks needed to satisfy the five boroughs with gas at 3000 gals a load? I drove some that I think were DM-400's with Allisons, Scania power-"Mack" 475-don't remember what HP was but newer trucks were DM-600's with Allisons and V-185 Cummins V-8's. Always thought those motors should have been installed with velcro fasteners to make swapping out easier.😎 I think today the city has graduated to 7200 gal aluminum tandem trailers with single axle tractors. Everything regulated by NYC fire dept.

Senator Kennedy always nails the subject. Too bad he never ran for the White House but he probably has to much common sense to do that.

Hah..that says it all..like cutting the concertina wire!

And what year was that Paul ? In any case enjoy the day..thankful we have such a good ally in that part of the world😎

Hah..what came over me..good catch😎

Nothing funny about this...Barack's 3rd term.

Uh Hippy, too late, already done!

Keep the spokes on the DM!

Spokes forever! 😎 Old guy here.....Long frame rails..did you relocate the axle? What was it in its other life? Looking good in any case!

Brown salt-where does that come from? I think most of the stuff coming into boston is "dirty white"

As well as an operator regardless of machine😎

For you ATHS members check out the article in the new edition of Wheels of Time. Article is a bit confusing as the author IMO mixes up his story and confuses the blue KW with the new truck. He talks about adding a 4 x 4 then runs the article into the new truck..obviously the new truck has no such thing. What amazes me is the electric motors look very complicated in that the motors are mounted to what appears to be a conventional differential so unlike a diesel electric locomotive, there h to be some sort of gear set up that converts motor shafts from "east/west to north/south". That set up had to cost a fortune to assemble..unless someone is making them as a production item??? Any of you Cat guys familiar with the D7E? I assume those motors are direct to the drive sprockets?? And if you go back 70 years or more the LeTourneu scrapers, articulated rear dumps were that way. His drive system was called an electric wheel hub motor.