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I know. I'm in love, LOL I'd rather drive this than the loaded 2020 4900 Western Star, LOL It's got one crack in the passenger side dash top and the door weather stripping and window felts are pretty dried out and brittle. That's about it.

That's what's nice about fire trucks....they are kept in excellent shape and low miles. It was outside and even at cold start there wasn't a puff of smoke from that 3208. I'd rather drive this than the new truck, LOL

We just picked this up today. What a beauty. It reminded me of how much I liked these old Ford's as I drove it to our yard. Going to get a PTO drive for the water pump, and 4 corner sprayers and a gravity bar on the back and used as a flusher truck. Use it to fill pools also. Getting amber lenses for the red lights that are on it. Has a 3208 V8 Cat turbo, 250 h.p. Allison auto, rubber block rear and 24.5 rubber.

That is nice. Color works well too.

Ya, all sounds good, but the construction company we hire out to is sending a crew of their guys north for a highway job. So, a bunch of guys in crew cab pickups, and two to a motel room in a rural town which may or may not even have any restaurants open. And the mine my buddy works for...they are still operating. They have big greyhound buses that they bus their men in for the two hour ride to the mine. Once there, sure you have your own room and washroom.....but they all have to eat in a common dining room. Still lots of stuff like that going on.

I t says it is an original fire truck, but it sure seems to look like it was a repurposed fire truck, no??

Just saw the show again. The Mack was a 1930.

Just saw this on TV and I'm in love. I wish I knew about this last year when it was in the auction. It sold for $17,300. I would have grabbed that in a heartbeat. https://www.mecum.com/lots/GA0319-365617/1948-international-kb-5-dealership-service-truck/

A guy in town here that collects cars just had one of those VW's delivered. Same color too, but a little less rust. Or "patina" as it is now known, LOL

Don't worry, the alcohol will kill their germs.

Yes, I can't believe the rash of failures on the 5.7 Hemi due to that MDS. Some customers were without their new trucks for up to 10 months because they didn't even have parts to fix them. One of my friends even went to a tuning shop as they have a way to delete the MDS and they wanted thousands of dollars to do it. So he just traded it for another brand truck.

Well there is a positive to all this. Even though it is hurting the economy overall, it is putting the hurt on big oil and I LOVE IT!!! The barrel is dropping like a rock. And while we are still being gouged at the pump, I love seeing nobody buying fuel. But I guess I shouldn't get too excited.....big oil will screw us over for this eventually. I just saw pics of Hwy 401 through Toronto. One of the busiest highways in the world. There is nobody on it!

That's a sweet setup! There is a company here in Northern Ontario (Raglan Industries) that makes a quick change setup kinda like that. The fifth wheel stays on the truck and the dump box goes over it. And you have a winch rack you just back under, lift the box up and drive out from under it. Many of us used to take the box off in winter, throw a headache rack on and go logging for the winter. I'd love to have that truck for it.

A company I used to run for many years ago had 70 plus trucks. Everything from R's to Superliners and two MH Ultraliner V8 cabovers. Along with the newer CH's and CL's. They still have almost all of them sitting in their back yard. Just rotting. Got E9 500 V8's in storage trailers, brand new rebuild kits for them. Won't sell anything and no intention of doing anything with them. Just let them sit and rot and go to waste. Probably enough good stuff there you could build a new R model or Superliner. I get depressed every time I walk through the yard.

Was just talking about this with someone the other day. I spent many years in the bush with 38,000 rears in my 78 IH. I finally broke one axle shaft and I wasn't stuck or spinning. But the truck was bought used and was wore out already, LOL Also drove a DM dump truck with a 237 and 5 speed Mack. Probably why the highways were safer back then too. Well mostly because we were better drivers, but the average speeds weren't as high in days past. Most of out trucks topped out at 55 MPH at 2100 RPM in the old days, LOL

Ya, if it's all trumps fault, then why is Canada also short and having stores price gouging right now? Give me a break. I WISH we had a Trump running our country instead of the loser we got now. I sure wish Harper didn't retire. He was about the best we ever had. At least he had our budget balanced.

That's what I was thinking.These would be a good coal hauler or mining dump spec. And the MP8 is all the power you ever need there with low axle ratios. Logging (at least up here) I don't think the road trucks would spec anything like that, and the off road trucks are using planetaries. Most of the road trucks are running 46's on 52,000 air suspension, but many still running rubber block. As for power. I pulled 140,000 pound loads up and down 12% hills for many years with an E6 350 and they did the job just fine. Even did it once with a 300 plus. Having said that....I like power!! LOL. And often times big power means the difference between chaining and not having to chain up.

OK, thanks. I had forgot about that.

We may as well kill time until we see some new Mack 85,000 pound rears at work, LOL.

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