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any more of those catom r modle pics ?damn nice truck.i remembe when they bought out day and night lowboy service got some nice ch s in that deal

so if dave stellman was the "black sheep" then jeff stellman must have been off the charts lol

isnt that dave stellmans brother?he had stellman trucking in plainfield.

rememder when markaty in addison had all those r models.and siebert in naperville.i know siebert closed when emil siebert died i think markaty is still around

man i was working at the old skelly truckstop in plainfield when this overdrive magazine came out and i saw this pic and thats when got the mack fever.fixin tires and oil changes thats when i really waned to drive .local construction hired me to drive a ford hey was a start. remember i wanted to work for a company called stellman trucking in plainfield he had 7 or 8 mack s.he hauled for prairie alot.

wow you guys out east have wild weight laws.in ill i can gross 50000 on a tamdem dump. 3400 on tandem 2000 on single but i dont have the bridge to carry 54000.in indiana the run tri axle and quad axle .wish illinois would allow tri axle dumps.are roads are already crap.but our bridges are worse.love all those swett dump pics!

i think the top one pops. seems to stand out more but thinkin on the pinstriping?or go old logo in blue maybe?tuff call

yea he does.hes got a nice cl tri axle and rd tri axle lowboy truck too

you folks need to check sid kamps website.go to the gallery page and look at all the sweeties there.superliners r 's and b models he had and then his new ones .plus job site pics

Damn computer!

Yeah but The o/o they use now suck.run junk and can't speak can't call them owner operators cause they don't take pride in there trucks half the time you can't even see the taillights for the mud but that's what the pits want ok I'm off my soapbox I love this thread them old macks built Chicago and the rest of the usa

Yeah but The o/o they use now suck.run junk and can't speak can't call them owner operators cause they don't take pride in there trucks half the time you can't even see the taillights for the mud but that's what the pits want ok I'm off my soapbox I love this thread them old macks built Chicago and the rest of the usa

the granite palumbo die cast 4 axle lowboy tractor and talbert 3 axle tralier sold on e bay for 475.00

get to drive a cat 725 or 740 some time they ride pretty good at least you can brace your left leg to keep from flyin around the cab.in a terex35not old one po rides for shit miss my camel back .beter to use the off road in the crap thenmy o5 granite lts of mud and knee deep water.

god that was a cool plant they put the trucks inside had a big bulldog emblem on the front of the building it was down from us steel which aint here any more eitherthts pretty cool

or they put it too low.somebody didnt give em the revised print. damn shame all the big guys are just about gone.miss seeing all those r and rd s working.even more cool when i was a kid there was a ready mix co on collins st that had b model mixers THAT was cool to watch them .i think the co was called newkirk concrete

yeah they must of had that many cause here in joliet when they did rt 30 they had about 40 plus mixers rd s . one time in 2001 at chicago mack i saw 20 new rd s and the window sticker said "ganna specs"if i find that pic i ll post it.i thnk when they redid rt 30 here in joilet thats what put em down they didnt get the revised print and they where 8 " too high plus they pulled up a gas main

Nice tks I try to be first in line when they work me miss those old r and rs and all that work here in il

do any of you guys have any pics of the macks that worked on the big dig site?

dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm !!!!! waitn for a wardrobe manfunction!!

damn!!!! tks for that 2nd jones pic

that r jones pulled up next to me on 355one day about a year ago while i was going up to mundeline and i about tapped da car in front of me !! it looked like it just rolled out of the dealer.it is a very beautiful truck that blue and chrome really pops in the sun

amen!! 57bcr the pits and companies dont want good drivers just bodies in a truck.we had aguy in a harrys truck back into a sewer ditch and it was 4foot wide!! and im sitting home!! loli miss the old days

hell yea!!

LOL DAMN 57 nice!!!