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On 2/24/2023 at 11:59 PM, Bullheaded said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKOEf5mz1OM

So what blows my mind is at 32:47 there is a new Mack CH  that is
smoking the drive tires???? LOL

I'd sure like to know what was done to that.

That CH has a Mp10 in it   . I was there last year.

On 7/28/2021 at 10:00 AM, Bigjohn4300 said:

The 14k front and 40k rears max, from what im reading, wont work for us.

You can get a 16k front supposedly but ive never seen a axle forward pinnacle with one . You can also get 46k rears theres alot of them with 46k rears.

A granite can be specced out for severe duty , triple frame heavy planetary rearends. , no steel hood or 15-16 liter engine. In reality a mp8 with super low gear ratio 7.00 or lower could pull just about any load.

11 minutes ago, Hayseed said:

I sincerely Hope Not...

I was told by a long time western star salesmen that yes the old cab is going away . He said no replacement for the 4900ex hood is in the cards.

They copied volvo. 

Interesting.  I heard volvo has placed a good truck man from australia at the helm of the MACK northeast united states region . Dean Bestwick former Mack Trucks Australia vice president of sales and marketing is becoming the northeast regional VP based out of mack corporate head quarters. They say he's a real Truck man and Mack enthusiast that used to drive road trains in Australia.

Same with the autocar conventional,none to be had

Saw this on a mack social media page . Its one of 3 that were added to 7 more dramis mack granites headed to chile.

Maybe GM could do another joint venture with navistar and make a scout/ real blazer together

Most of the mack plow trucks i know in municipalities and state trucks have mp7 and even mp8 . Alot of towns are getting high hp motors now. Our town has a freightliner with a dd13 470hp. I know another town that has a western star with a 505 dd13 . My couzin used to drive a mack granite plow truck with a 405 mp7.

I wonder if the isl could fit in the md series then just add tandem axles ,could be the plan ?

On 5/28/2020 at 2:19 PM, General Ike said:

I get it... pogo stick and associated lines throws me off a bit more than the 5th wheel which is easily removable to another unit.  Just cant imagine using it as a tractor with the frame rails that far behind the axles.  There is obviously a ton of stuff it could be used for.  Maybe going to Canada and will get a dump body and the air and power will be used for a dump trailer?   

Id guess a british columbia logger set up.

Our  mp 10 engine brakes are as strong as our cummins x15's. well tbe mp 10 actually hold back better in the low rpm and will bring you to complete stop almost with out using the air brakes . The cummins work a tad better in the higher rpm but cut out in the lower rpm . Our titans all have original brake shoes and drums , and all of them have over 300k miles loaded heavy all the time.

Mack should find a way to stuff x15 in the anthem pinnacle and granite and offer the x12 as well . I think cummins has the best performing engines right now. Im not a cummins man by any stretch but they seem to be doing good

Yeah ballard is the best mack dealer in new england or atleast they were , because they only sell mack .thats where we bought our titans . 25 yrs ago the other new england mack dealers wanted to sell us western star. 

On 12/19/2019 at 11:55 PM, 41chevy said:

Gabrelli Mack has 4 or 5 dealerships  between them all maybe 2 Macks in the delivery line, but the lots full of Petes and K.W.s. Last year I speced out an Anthem for pulling a low boy with a dozer  or granite blocks for break waters. Dealer flat out told me to go for a Western Star or a Pete because the Mack with all the specs I wanted still did not have a heavy chassis as an option, only the "road" chassis was available. I checked with the Mack dealer in Richmond and got the same story. They both said Volvo only wanted OTR sales and heavy units to be Volvo.  Ended up getting a pair of AM General ex mil power units. Sad state that even the dealers feel screwed. 

I know volvo has screwed mack up but i know you can spec a heavy anthem or pinnacle or granite tractor to do what you wanted,you can get atleast a 10mm thick frame same as a 3/8 rail and up to 16k front and 46k rears in the anthem or pinnacle and heavier stuff in the granites , there is some misimformation out there . Not saying mack isnt basically a shell but you can still buyvsome heavy duty macks 

In a press release Friday morning, Ram announces X15 now available in its 2500-5500 series with up 605 hp and 2050 torque 😂😂😂😂😂 with GCWR of 100,000 lbs. 

That is beastly looking for sure . 

1 hour ago, Maxidyne said:

I'm next to South Dakota where GCW is only limited by bridge formula B and how many axles you can fit into the 81.5' maximum trailers length. Thus we see 146K or so 13 axle grain hopper doubles and 170k 17 axle side dump doubles and even a couple 20 axle side dump doubles at 190k or so. I rarely see a Mack pulling the 13 axle doubles and haven't seen a Mack pulling the 17 axle doubles in years. Paccar pretty much has this market to themselves with the odd Daimler product.

Is it really worth having all those axles and tires to maintain ? I run in alot of miles in Upstate NY and can weigh 107k  on just 6 axles and its alot of maintenance .never mind the fuel mileage must be awful at that weight 

I still see quite a few newer macks in new england and new york state . In NY state you can gross 117k legally with quad axle trailer, ive seen quite a few pinnacles with mp8 pulling quad axle dump trailers in the upstate albany area

Im hauling logs out of a big stone quarry in upstate ny in the mountains between lake champlain and lake george lotta big equipment 

It was only a matter of time at some point they were goi g to run out of good engine cores anyway couldnt last forever

10 hours ago, 1965 said:

I really like the chu trucks; why the couldn’t of made ch700, like the older R models? Put a little more hood on it for bigger hp!

 

I agree put this grill on a chu stretch the hood of it and bingo you have a  superliner 3 offer the mp8 and cummins  x15 or a (scania v8 ) 😉