Red Horse

Now boys be nice to Freightliner. The Germans are very smart. Ford consistently had around 10% of class 8 and probably 20%+ of class 6 and 7. Daimler steals the business for 300 million bucks, runs it for 10 years, avoids dealer suits and shuts it down. that is a cheap way to buy market share. Now once International is toast, they will own everything. Ford? Oh the genius behind that?, Jac Nassar, he is long gone-after he squandered millions on buying Aston Martin, junk yards, auto parts stores in England etc etc.

Well the party line answer will be .."because the Afghans know how to work on the Ruski choppers-too expensive to teach them how to fix a Sikorsky". Bigger question? why spend a nickel on anything? When will we learn? we are dealing with tribes! Nothing will ever change-be it Iraq, Iran etc etc. We wonder why they kill us and we are trying to help them? Hell-they kill each other!

Matt- Spartan Chassis? That means its a "Heavy Rescue". I remember when a "rescue truck" meant something like an F-350 or Cheby 3500 that carried just a bit more than an ambulance-like jaws of life etc. some of the departments around here have "heavy rescues" that are tandems!. Check out Minuteman trucks website and "recent deliveries" big tax dollars at work.

Easy trip

Mike, Truck registration will be 10 bucks. Spectators $5, kids under 12 free. No parking fee. Your 761 will look good as it will not be shoehorned in so people can't get a good picture! Also we will have some good food vendors instead of the usual rubber burgers!

Great! spread the word too. Thx

Loos like it has a V-8 under the hood-so much for "antique" status

Lazaro Paving finishing up the season!

Lazaro Paving doing a job at my house today. Class outfit, classic truck 12R-24 Spokes!

Well guys after many years of holding our show at the Hudson Elks field, we are moving to a new location and date. Mark your calendars for Sunday July 13, 2014. We will be at the Lancaster Fairgrounds, Home of the Bolton Fair and the Ty-Rods car show. The Fairgrounds are located on Rt 117, 4.4miles west of Exit 27 on I-495. As many of you who attended last year's event at Hudson can attest, the Elks lost a lot of their field as the town fenced off a significant piece of property that abutted the Hudson High School and had been used by the Elks. this made for very crowded conditions. This will not be the case at the spacious Lancaster Fairgrounds so mark your Calendars accordingly.

How did I miss this post-my guess is Capello got the message from Milton Cat..."Want to make deliveries for us??" Well you know the rest of the story.

Hmnn-that rt. 12?

Thx-so my memory ISN't that bad! Is the FCM still offered?

Didn't Mack buy a company by the name of Savage? As for an existing chassis, not a bad thought-why wouldn't that low pro trash chassis work? Have to be able to clear the cab for the discharge end of the drum

Very nice-thx

Don't know about the F-850 Super Duty as to location. But the Ford blower is on Rt 2?? And the Athey (I think) belt loader is on a ramp in Hartford.

Well having bought my share of Macks (R's and DM's, CH's) and while I love my B-61X, I have to say, the Louisville was a good value. Arm rests fall off? Yep-Ever break a frame?-never . As for these Cargos. I have to say they are sold in some of the toughest areas of the world. If you go to Ford's web site and work your way to Ford Turkey, you can see some big Cargos- dual front axles, heavy rock bodies etc. And they don't look like they spend too much time in nice urban settings! If Ford ever gets back into class 8, I would hope these trucks provide some good engineering feedback

Ok Bulldog-your eyes are better than mine-where is the button???

200 buck premium per load for this thing sounds like a bargain. Kind of surprised the maintenance cost for a front discharge would be twice to three times a conventional. In any case as always, nothing like the right tool for the job. I'm sure there are plenty of jobs were a belt mixer is the most cost effective answer. If had a redi-mix business of size I would think a good mix of rear/front/belts would cover all the bases. Not exactly good from a parts/maintenance perspective but in a competitive business, the customer rules-unless you are the only game in town. Again here in this neck of the woods (Mass) I would bet front discharge is 3 to 1 on replacements. " PS Wheeled my share of concrete off the ass end of B-81's, LJ's, A-cars using a "Jackson prime mover" in my youth (EJ- Foxon, Velardi etc)-but in my old age can appreciate the new technology

Actually I saw another picture-on same Blueovalnews thread -of a white 650 with the same hood treatment. Except this picture showed truck from rear and you could see exhaust. Small muffler and pipe-so this said to me this truck was probably a gas job. Also someone suggested this might be some sort of hybrid. Seeing that little exhaust, makes me think that might be a possibility. Think of it-if we are thinking this was to accomodate a larger radiator-because say there was an 8.3 Cummins or something bigger than a 6.7 Cummins under the hood would you not think it would have a significantlybigger exhaust system?? Not the case. I'm thinking the new truck will use the Euro Transit glass house (doors, windshield etc) so maybe it has something to do with that.

EJ- Hah!! Excellent comment- I actually predicted something like that coming from you.

Well this would appear to be the first sign that they ARE going to do something. I don't think they will ever be in the "large car" business to compete with Paccar etc, but what does it take to go from class 7 into 8 vocational? Not that much

thx Matt- I clicked on link did a "copy" then a paste? don't know how the travelogue got on

Matt-see if this works If not,just got to Blueovalnews.com, forums and click on the 750 mule thread

How about it KSC. Any word on the pix of the Ford 750 Mule that was posted on the Blue Oval New Forums yesterday. It came from a SEMA posting . It is a current 750 Crew Cab with a "toy hauler" box. Looks like it has a much bigger radiator as the hood is wider, higher and looks like it sets a bit forward. Some have suggested its an early mule for the Avon Lake mediums but I wonder if it isn't just something they are working on in short term to put say an 8.3 cummins or some Westport CNG motor in the current truck. Any thoughts? :idunno: