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  1. Red Horse
    64 dollar question is why? What took our initiative away? My first thought is we (American business) remain too focused on short term results. Unless a payout is right around the corner, it seems no one has the stomach for the long haul.. Its all about looking good for the next quarterly report. I remember when Ford after spending millions redesigning the class 7/8's, sells out to Daimler for a mere 300 million. I remember press coverage applauding Ford for its "short term focus"! I don't think thast was the train of thought when I was in school. Shows you how old I am right?
  2. Red Horse
    Actually the 650 is doing well-my suspicion is its all V-10 gas jobs- 12 mos 2015 they had 26.8% of class 6. Feb YTD they are at 35.9% of class 6. class 7 another story- 12 mos 2015 they had 4.85% of class 7. Feb ytd they are down to 3.93. I don't think the Power Stroke has a lot of interested buyers at 33,000lb GVW. If they don't get a good 6 cyl. diesel-or a bigger gas (make that gaseous-gas, LP, CNG) motor for class 7 they are toast IMO. By the way- Jim H- how does your friend like his new 650 V-10 ramp truck??
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    Ok- time for Ford to wake up. Isuzu diesel power coupled with a much larger dealer network has to spell trouble for Ford. Transit sales are booming but Ford will have nothing that is diesel powered over 10,000 lbs that is NOT a conventional cab. and not everyone wants to push a "long hood" around city streets with a clueless non-CDL driver. Just don't understand when they have a decent cab available in the lighter weight range Cargo.
  4. Red Horse
    As always-key point. Could this motor be certified for use in US and if not what would it take to get that certification.
  5. Red Horse
    Bringing the work from Westport should be a positive from a quality perspective. Understanding how some outsourced assembly might make sense, it would seem to me the more you have under one roof, the more focused everyone is. If a glitch comes up, not a matter of an email or a phone call-rather-"get your ass over here and look at this!
  6. Red Horse
    Guys- I should have added- I was BS-ing with the owner driver and could see this thing had the custom interior from the era-you had two choices back then-one was shades of brown with orange accents, the other was shades of gray-this thing had the gray-headliner looked immaculate-should have asked him to open the door to get a shot. Oh and fxymn-this wasn't a new hood on a 70's cab-it had the pull type door latches which were the last improvement before the HN-80 style came out in 98. Guy was not familiar with BlueOvalNews or BigMacktrucks site as I told him the truck would be on both sites that nite! As I'm sure you all can relate when you get a thumbs up from someone-made this guys day.
  7. Red Horse
    I can't understand why they could not do some creative engineering to come up with one BBC that would accommodate both engines.-be it axle forward or set back. Four BBC's- I can think of a lot of trucks that accommodated big bloc Cats or Cummins with as little as 106-granted-I'm sure all the emissions issues have complicated things but still........ 4?
  8. Red Horse

    Well THIS got everyone's attention!

  9. Red Horse
    Took this shot of a Louisville today working a road job in Brewster Ma. Dummy I did not get the year but newest would be 96/7, oldest with that grill 88?? In any case, LT-9000, 425 old school Cat, 18 front 46 rears with a 3rd lift.. Imacculate! Guy was waiting his turn at the excavator, so I made his day. He had rebuilt the motor (I guess that is where the 425 came from as I don't think they ever offered the 3406 with that rating as a factory option.) He also at one time owned an LT-9000 tractor that he picked up as a drive away at KTP.
  10. Red Horse
    We ran DM-400 NYC spec tank trucks in late 60's/early 70's. Allisons and I do believe they were Scanias. replaced the Scanias with V-185 Cummins power. From the frying pan to the fire!
  11. Red Horse

    Kevin,

    Regarding the Northway, bill Semple is pres.of our ATCA chapter . I'm treasurer.  Needless to say I am very familiar with this truck.  It was the only thing he sold at his auction  that brought him any kind of reasonable "profit"-not that you are supposed to make money on old trucks-"yuk-yuk".

    He had a couple of early Whites that surprisingly went for bargain rates.

  12. Red Horse
    Hope they have a remote "destruct" feature to save us a lot of trouble when they are abandoned and ISIS gets them!
  13. Red Horse
    Unhappy with German leadership?...Hmnn shades of Chrysler?
  14. Red Horse
    Hah! For sure Jim- the neighbors are not happy about their pot holes!
  15. Red Horse
    Well guys-thx for all the good advice. Picked up two new 1050 CCA (@32) from Fleet Pride (they are made by Exide) put them in and I could not get my finger off the starter button fast enough before it fired up. 20 minutes spent welding new angle irons in each battery box to lock them in and I'm done. Also interesting side note-was at the tire shop today and a Napa guy was in- he does fleet work for a Napa with about 6 locations. He told me 4 battery mfg's in US- East Penn-(Deka) Exide-(Fleet Pride one of their labels), Johnson Controls-(Interstate) and one other player that I forgot that does a lot of minor pvt. labels. MrCat- Mike-called your guy-he only went as high as 940. Price okay but given fact I was going from 4 to 2, wanted as much punch as I could get.
  16. Red Horse
    Thx for posting-another dimension!
  17. Red Horse
    Hmnn- you DO get around!
  18. Red Horse
    I hear you-just the practical side of me
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    Jim, I never knew the history of Merk's truck-thx. Some of these fire trucksgo for unbelievable numbers. A town on Cape-to remain nameless-sold a 237 powered pumper about three years ago- friend attended the bid opening-that did not happen. Truck went to a "local". Yank the 5 speed, put a 6 speed in, shorten up WB and you would have a single axle dump for a lifetime!
  20. Red Horse
    B-dog thx for the history. Remember the 69 R and the MB. The MB was converted to a DPW sander-until a women blew a stop sign, hit it and it rolled over.! Don't remember the "type 45+-unless that is a American LaFrance which is the current muster truck. the current R is a Triplex-someone was thinking of its "afterlife"! give me a heads up next time you are headed for the Country Cupboard.
  21. Red Horse

    Mike-tried calling you on 978-256-4379

    shoot me your guys contact info if you don't mind and I'll see what he says.  1000 CCA Interstate is listing for about 150 bucks- I can also get 1000 CCA at Advance auto for 141 less A 20% COUPON I HAVE.  Think I'm going to cut back to two-one on each side.

    Bob

  22. Red Horse

    Kevin

    Pardon my political incorrectness but is this a diversity hire?  When you see a track record like that, "diversity" is the first thing that comes to my mind.

    By the way, did you know Joe Rossetti?  He was a New England guy that I think made it to the VP of sales level.  I think early in his history he was the branch manager in Providence or Boston.  Also, national Accounts guys that were my reps were Homer Milliken and Rick Vessela-but I'm dating myself and both were probably gone before your time.

    Bob

  23. Red Horse
    10-4, Apples and High taxes!
  24. Red Horse
    so Larry-what do you have for CCA? I'm thinking when guys I bought the truck from converted from 4 -6V with the SP switch, they "filled the battery boxes" with 4 -12 V. I don't ever remember buying trucks with a total of 4800 CCA.-and that includes tractors that had to have a hot wire for a tailgate Will do Mike.
  25. Red Horse
    Bulldog-here are some pix-sorry could not get it outside.

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