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  1. Thank you all. @Vladislav, i will certainly pick up the book. @NY-B61, i already have a good idea about it; it almost certainly will be a F-series model. But, as you said, i have plenty of time.
  2. Hello everyone, my name is Gerard from the Netherlands. Unlike a lot of you, i do not own a Mack. Probably in the future, but for the coming few years there are no plans. To get food on the table i earn my living as a logistics and waste manager for a company that is specialized in industrial cleaning. So, the Rolling stock are mainly tractor/semi and rigids. The majority are DAF trucks, there is a Ginaf 5 axle rigid, a MAN rigid and two Scania rigids. Lately i have Some time on my hands due to a vertibral hernia. A few months before i borrowed a book about package services and freight shippers throughout Friesland (in Dutch Met Beurtschippers En Boderijders Door Friesland), the province i live in. The book subscribes the history of shippers and messengers from town to town. My specific attention was drawn by the vehicles that were used before and after the war in the last century. Before the war there were a lot of Opel, Chevrolet, Ford. But after the war there were a lot surplus of the American, Canadian and British forces. There was also a handful of German trucks. For the messenger/package service the Chevy C15-C60, their Ford derivatives, Dodge Beeps and Opels would suffice. But for the hauling of bricks, concrete tubes, iow, the more heavy stuff, the bigger trucks came in such as Autocar, Diamond, IH and Mack. Of these afformentioned truck makes, Mack only vanished during the 80's from the Dutch heavy hauling theatre. That got me digging a bit further in the history that started after the war period. Born in '66, you might say that i am a '70s kid. As a young boy a saw the Mack F-series for the first time. My old man drove goods for a distributer of supermarkets for a moment and as the co driver i encountered a lot of, for me, special stuff. I already mentioned the F-series, but the R and DM series as well. While my dad drove a Daf, the company had Volvo as well. Dad drove the 2300, but another driver had the F88. That truck was a lot higher, had a teriffic noise and the interior had a big engine hump. To a kid this was awesome. The Mack was even bigger, had an even better noise and had a stack behind the cab. That was cool! The municipal services had these Magirus Jupiter, with aircooled v8 (or v6) wich you saw everyday. But during some construction works in our town a huge truck came down our street. As i found out later it was a DM800 4 axle rigid. From then on i was hooked. To the bulldog that was standing on top of the hood. I sincerely hope to find out more about Mack throughout the years in reading through the topics and perhaps i might be able to contribute on the forum. For now, thank you. Regards, Gerard
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