Red Horse

Hah-EJ- I can relate-I had to do some "temporary driving" in metro NY in early 70's. I remember pulling a load out of Mt Vernon one day and noticed a nice VW bug on the side of the road with a bunch of people nearby. Neighborhood was decent too. By the time I dropped the load and headed back the car was on blocks and stripped! My guess is elapsed time was under 45 minutes. I'm sure nothing has changed.

In this age of instant communication, should be a quick job for the cops. we are not talking about doors for an "88 F-150" here. Plus hotel would have to have security cameras in place unless it was a flea bag he was staying at.

The International is a "B" series-probably a B-160 -1960/61 vintage. I drove a B-180 dump, V-345 5 and a 2. I was a young kid but I drove that better than some older guys and would split shift while carrying 10-12 ton. The truck had a factory plate of 24,000 lbs. A bit overloaded??? And with juice brakes, and 9:00 20 rubber. V-345 was a great motor.

Detroit News reports Volvo is trimming white collar workers to save 620 million. This in my mind cannot be good news for Mack. Sooner or later the bean counters will say..."we can't afford the duplication in staffing". Hope I'm wrong but......."Monkey See-Monkey Do". (Freightliner- Sterling, White-Reo-Diamond T-Diamond Reo etc) By the way, some genius at Detroit News who put the story together posts a picture of a Volvo S-60 sedan with the article. I bet he is having a bad day.

That for sure is NOT a 58. It is a 59 or 60 and is an F-800 IMO. The guy that Matt is talking about in Hamden Conn. goes by the business name of Chuck's Trucks. I thought I picked up a card of his at the 2012 ATHS National in Springfield but can't find it. Old Ford trucks though are his specialty.

Now THAT front hub looks like its a driving axle!!

"OLD" Mystic KW's? Like how "old"? 2 yrs-look pretty new to me. And Mystic is now "Anchor"-

Lazaro Paving had a nice open house at their Shirley Mass shop on Saturday. Good chance to see a first class shop and a ton of current equipment including milling machines and their Wirtgen reclaimer that I believe can do up to 14"=then again I think this thing is around 800 HP so 14" is not so much given that kind of power-talk about a big roto-tiller! They also invited guys to bring their trucks-shame on me-I started taking pix and then got side tracked-too much conversation-but then again that is the best part of an event like this- In any case attached is a shot of Mike Pacitto's beautiful 761 Brockway and another shot of Lazaro's "old timers" lined upnext to the shop.

Can you believe the Ford guy's comment..."people are looking at us now because others have dropped out"-or words to that effect. Nothing like putting a positive spin on why people are buying your product- like maybe..We are the only class 6 gas option etc. I can't believe how inept these guys are.

Nice guys-interesting thread

Does this meet US emissions standards?

To this and J Hancock's point-my sister lived in Simsbury for 50 years till they needed a house on one floor and moved to Bloomfield. But in both towns, still some shade grown tobacco but the nursery stock business seems to have taken over. There is one lot in Simsbury that looks like it has about 10 loading dock positions-thats a lot of outbound shrubs. No doubt- a lot of development between McMansions and office parks but still a lot of agriculture of one form or another going on. Including tobacco-but for sure that I would say is the minor use now.

Just busting them Matt. Conn. not noted for big FWD's-at least in my days. My uncles were weekend warrior farmers in Hamden, North Haven and Wallingford using 8N's!. Fields in back of my house as a kid were all Farmal.

EJ- next time you are on a road trip call me-What town?

What? There isn 't a field big enough in North Branford to turn one of those around.

Mass. About 2-1/2 hrs from Albany

Sorry to hear of your loss. You were lucky to have shared a common interest with him.

To add to the chorus, 237's were for sure a standard in the bulk transport industry where max loads were every load. When they came out 73280 lbs was max GCW on 5 axles but when law went to 80,000 on 5 axles plenty of those 237's were still running. My guess is the fact its a 10 speed says it was altered-here in US if it was a Maxidyne it was a 5 or 6 speed. Perhaps you should get the build sheet from Mack Museum to see just how the truck is built.

Nice-what is the power train? Wow 30,000 lb single rear-don't see those much!

So KS-much discussion about Cat trucks- these are built in which plant? what is the Navistar content percentage in these trucks??? I can't believe they will survive.

For sure on that- I'll bet between the LN-8000 and the C series they had more than half of the home heating oil business here in the Northeast

Agree on some towns buying used BIG trucks. But I woujld say more and more towns in this area are buying one tons or at max, 550's. I'm sure the CDL issue is part of it but given the capability say of a 550, it can do the job. think of a Ford F-600 or C-65 Chevy of the 60's. What did it have for HP and Torque? 200 and 300 ft lbs? Now a 19,500 gvw 550 with a P-Stroke is what 400HP and 700 ft lbs???

Well I think Bill Ford has been quoted as saying they want to be in the big truck business-better that he is saying that vs.."not our core business". Also remember when they were in it, they were a solid player with 8-10% in class 8 and usually around 20% of 7? Of course they had a broad product line then. What they offer today is very basic. And I still say, the increasing use of intermodal freight, will change the market for class 8's. there will always be a market for 500 HP "Large cars" but the bigger market I would bet will be the lower end of the scale as you will be looking at a basic tractor that goes from the rail yard to a distribution/break bulk terminal-short miles.