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PS.......it did not sound like a V8.

Well for the second time this week I tried to get a pic of this awesome working Superliner and this all all I got both times......the trailers. And I even clicked my phone well before it got to me. I was so P'd off!!!! It's a sweet looking daycab. What's even stranger is I radio'd back to my buddy behind me and said get a pic of that Superliner and both times he said nothing passed him and we were on 2 lane highway with no side roads???? So either it vanished or I just see Superliner's in my head??? I vow I will get a pic for you guys at some point this summer!!!!!

That's what they have at their terminals here. There are "holes" in the front of the building at the dock doors, that the rear tandems and fifth wheel drive in under the dock. They still have many of the Argosy COE's still in service.

Damn good numbers for being smoke free!!! Best motors ever made.

Awesome pics as usual Tim. I can understand what that is like. I used to work in forestry and hauled for a company that had big Morbark and Beast wood grinders and I used to see the havock chunks of metal going through the grinders would cause. Even with chips and bark coming out of a sawmill, you would be surprised to see what you find in those piles, LOL

A long time Canada wide fleet, Manitoulin Transport. The first to have what they termed the "supertrucks" which were all Freightliner cabovers with drom boxes. Then when coe's and the Argosy went away they switched them to FL 114SD's. But today I saw brand new International HV's.

Here's what this morning looked like. And didn't see the Superliner again yet, but saw another Anthem pulling a possum belly.

Well worked out better than expected. I got a really nice kitchenette room in a town one hour away from the job. A very nice couple from Wisconsin bought a motel up here and totally renovated it, so it is all new. Very nice place and very nice people. The Outdoorsman in Wawa, Ontario. Still ice on the small lakes and it snowed today. Was nice the first part of the week though. Saw a Superliner still working, pulling a possum belly wood chip trailer. My mission is to get a pic. Also saw an IH 9670 cabover cattle hauler today too. More impressed with my little DD13 505/1850. It is getting stronger as it breaks in. Pulls like a champ and I am averaging 5.4 US MPG working all day in constant hills loaded both ways, and I get 6.4 on the hour run back to the nearest town. Not disappointed in going to a smaller motor. No regens so far. I'm the black 2020 in the middle.

22 metric Tonne Tim. Allowable is 36,000 KG and empty weight is 14,000. Yes, I have "essential" highway construction to do mrsmackpaul, LOL Not going to be fun. I'll be an hour away from anything and will be starting and ending work before I can get back to any town with anything open. Going to have a cab full of groceries and stuff. All the town up where I am going are all on reduced hours for any services.

My party is over too. Got the call, no more relaxing at home. Got my load of blasted rock on and ready to hit the highway for a big highway reconstruction job up north.

I like them all. I both drove and pulled for Trans Provincial and for another local company and ran R's identical to that one. With both spoke and budds on the steers and some with straight pipes between the cab and bunk and some with the stacks behind the bunk. Those R's all pulled heavy. Multi axle trailers pulling steel and dump trailers.

No, super single budd on a dump truck steering lift axle. And yes, I do have to deal with the odd stone in the rear axles. But the bad thing is with no plates it's easy for the MTO (DOT) to look inside and some of those guys will see a scratch and say "it's cracker, out of service." The less they can see, the better. Right on Maddog. I spent a lot of years pulling dump trailer also with R Models. Mostly tri-axle 30/36 King dump trailers, a framelss Raglan with a bath tub box and two Raglan 5 axle Hydra-Glides (48 foot frame with a 36 foot box that slides back to dump.)

I hear ya. I don't know the owners story either. Was in a bad mood this morning. Had to replace a cracked dust/inspection plate on my lift axle because the original cracked and was rattling. And of coarse dealer had none in stock when they did annual safety the other day. So simple job....one nut and one hose clamp. But hendrickson in their infinite wisdom designed it so you have to pull the wheel and the brake drum to get that one nut and bolt off. Awesome. Just what I wanted to do at 6:30 am.

Could be a nice truck but me myself I would have spent my chrome stack money on some body work and maintenance. Not meaning to offend. But I see it all the time and wonder why some people don't fix the truck up but will load it with chrome?

Oh ok Red Horse. I didn't catch on to the 'joint venture" LOL. I think book time for lifting the cab is 4 or 5 hours i can't remember which now. Or (in the 6 litre days anyway) you could make a permanent "dent" in the firewall which allowed you get the heads off with the cab on. My only issue with lifting the cab is I only seem to have very incompetent dealers and dealer mechanics where i live. They can't even replace a rear view mirror head properly, so I really don't want these people removing my cab and bolting it back on, LOL

Ya, poor old girl really got picked over too before it was restored eh. You would think famous trucks like that would have been kept and not abandoned. Glad to see the great work they did to bring it back to life.

And good pics. Thanks for posting.

The International is a CV Red Horse, not JV. Just to save confusion. No matter how bad these look, still 100% better than lifting the cab off a Superduty to do engine work, LOL But very glad to see the 7.3 Gasser in the new Ford's. I would absolutely buy that over a diesel if I ever had to replace my current F550. And besides, with the gas engine what real access to the engine do you need? Other than spark plugs nothing ever really needs to be touched with them, unlike the new diesel's.

I love the one I got when I listed our 2012 Coronado dump truck for sale. it kinda went like this: "Hello I would love to attend the viewing but i work in offshore drilling rig. I send address and you put in shipping container and I send payment." Sure, I'll get right on that, LOL

I have a friend in New Zealand I email back and forth with Tim. One thing I notice, there seems to be a lot of people that have pride in their trucks and equipment there. He sends me pics and there seems to be a lot of really nice rigging in your country. That float trailer on the Star....is that one of those ones that changes width hydraulically? I've seen them used in Australia and always wondered why they never caught on over here for over width loads.

My Detroit DD's are close, but Cummins Jake still has an edge. Does your truck have the 6 position Jake? One of CL's I drove had that 6 position switch. After driving Mack Dynatard and Jake's, the first time I was coming up to an intersection with that Cummins I hit the Jake.......then had to get back on the throttle to make it to where I had to stop, LOL

They were alright to drive. I drove one when they came out in the CL. A tuned Signature still won't touch a tuned E9 Mack though. Except for engine braking. NOTHING has a Jake as strong as a Signature or an ISX.

Don't want to derail this thread...but why would they omit the gauges? Especially engine temperature. Didd they want their drivers to just drive no matter what? LOL

I don't wanna freak you out sbrem. I've just seen a few, not sure why.

Nice pics. Looks like a nice Western Star there too.