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I wanna see more of this extended hood CH/CL!!!!!

Beautiful! What is the BCR again?

Well they did say if you we are hauling supplies needed for the pandemic we can run overloaded with no log book!

The big steel mill here that is a BIG supplier to GMC posted today that they will not pay any sick leave to any employees and the steel workers union had no comment. Wonder how that is going to go over when even the government is trying to lock everyone up?

I just ran the Star car to town to drop it off at dealer for the annual saftey before construction season starts. First thing I see at the city limits is a big lighted road sign "Essential Travel Only." Get to dealer, all the doors are locked. They have a walkie talkie outside on a table that apparently is OK for all kinds of us to touch, LOL You have to speak to them inside over the radio then drop your keys in a drop box. Mechanics that were working outside all had medical facemasks on, LOL And every parking lot I passed was empty except the liquor stores.

Aren't most of them? I know they are here, LOL

Agree tenfiveO. Both my kids are out of work now. And I just heard here they are even letting low risk inmates out of of prison?????

Well all the trucking trade shows up here have been postponed, and so have all the antique tractor auctions I follow.

I'm in a different country, but I can say, I'm not taking any of these special payments or anything. Because the one thing I do know is, when it comes to the gov, nothing is "free" You are going to pay for it in the end. Or you are signing over your properties to them. Just going to work and carrying on like every other day.

Yes, Nortrux Mack in Calgary sells a lot of those. They have even been doing tri-drive Anthem's. https://www.nortrux.com/index.php?area_id=1001&page_id=1098

I wish someone would invent a time machine so I can stay stuck in that era.

Just got a spy photo of the first new product announcement to come from the new VW/International Traton partnership. Introducing the new BeatleStar 5000.

Agreed. We can get the subject back on track if we can ever find a customer in North America that will actually order these new axles and see the truck.

Well my friends that run the highway hauling heavy seem to have good luck with their new emission motors. But I know they don't like stop and go construction work and light load snow hauling in cold temps. But I will say I am seeing way better performance and much less problems with my 2020 Detroit than I did with the 2013. Yes it's still new, but the problems with the 2013 started right away. I just hope that trend continues, LOL

Holy! That's cool! That's quite the beast. What motor in it? It didn't have a tilt hood originally?

I had a similar experience. Several years ago forestry dried up here (coming back online now) and dump trucking got bad for me for a while. So I bought another highway tractor and went hauling Coca Cola and Labatt beer and groceries between Ontario and Quebec. I found that any where you went, you as a truck driver where treated as a piece of crap. There was no respect anywhere. So quit doing that and went and hauled new RV trailers from the factories in Indiana. Every where you went you were treated great. They offered you drinks and coffee, clean facilities to use. Pretty much treated you like a respectable human being.

And especially with these new engines. How come we never hear any long term reports? Lets here from some fleets on how the emissions systems and regens are doing after a few years and a 100,000 miles. I don't care about their opinion after a ride around the block in brand new truck.

I wish there were still some credible trucking publications still around. Rolf Lockwood used to do a good job too. it should be like the auto industry. The truck manufacturers should give new models to independent testers to take out, put a REAL load on them and spend some time in them. Then report what was good and what went wrong so buyers can make a somewhat informed decision. I was lucky years ago. Even while I owned my own trucks, if I had periods of no work for mine I had a big local steel hauler fleet I could go drive for any time and they had every brand of truck and updated constantly. So I got to try every make and model that came out. Unfortunately they sold out and it went to crap now. But it used to be great trying all kinds of different trucks to see how they compared.

Yep, same with when they do a "test drive." Back in the day Merv Orr would do them for Driver Owner I think it was? He would haul real loads, do a real trip and do stuff like drop one side off on the shoulder to see how it would react. Now these new guys take a bobtail or put a whopping 30,000 pounds on the deck and take it up a 3% "hill" and tell you how great and powerful every model is. I really laugh every time a freight hauler brags up his 80,000 pounds. I put more on my dump truck bud. LOL

Could have been used on both sides of the border Rob? But we had a Canadian Bulldog magazine here back in the day. Probably up until about the time they closed the factory in Oshawa, Ontario. The old Canadian Bulldog magazines were great. All they were was pictures and descriptions of customers new trucks and they were broke down into each province. And if there was a new model or engine there would be an article on that. But lots of pics. Not like the useless crap mag they have now that focuses on new technology nobody but the mega fleets care about.

One of my favorite Mack adds ever! Back cover of a 1982 Canadian Bulldog magazine. I live in a logging area so I grew up appreciating on/off road trucks more than interstate freight haulers.

Well I wanted to post for Rob after the discussion in the Mack 85,000 pound rears thread as a thank you for some info he has given. I thought I had articles on the Midliner conventionals like he had, but when I dug out my old Canadian Bulldog magazines all I had was the original debut of the cabover model. You may have seen these??

What are you doing with that Quickfarms? Restoration or just some repairs? I'd like to see that all put back together.

Hahahaha, on 3 axles at that! Try doing that today, LOL

There are three Midliners in the town near me. One is a boom truck and two are tractors. And they are still going strong. Actually 4.....there is a box van with a paper shredder in it.