Bullheaded

Nice. I wish I would have kept some of mine. Only one I still have all the books from is the 88 R model.

These trucks are sweet, but when I saw the episode with the company making the new Power Wagons I looked them up. Since I wasn't born rich I really ain't gunna spend $200,000 on these pickups, LOL.

I had my puff limiter plumbed into the air switch on my dash that was for the Mack 12 speed as my truck was converted to a 15 over Eaton before i got it. Two settings....driving through the scales compliant and full throttle response!! LOL. Before that when I was driving multiple company trucks I always had a pile of roofing nails in my tool box. They plug those air lines quite nicely. LOL.

Saw your truck featured in Todays Trucking awhile back. very nice!

Kinda like White. look at the powerhouse they used to be. They had 5 major truck brands, a bunch of major agricultural brands, some major heavy equipment brands, power generation companies etc. How does a corporation like that fail????

Me too. Always loved the RD800. Where I am in Ontario we don't have the fat trucks like the CL350ST (even though they were built here) but we had RD800's and CL700 loggers with E9 V8's and planetary rears hauling 200,000 pounds. There are still one RD800 and one CL sitting in a mill just north of me, but all the rest have pretty much been replaced by Stars now.

I asked one of my friends that lives and used to work around these beasts. His reply: Do not know if they were that good. There would of been tons around. The cabs were shit as well they put Pacific cabs on after they were driven for a few years. the Mack shacks shook apart There is lot of info and pics about them here. https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/mack-cl350-st-logging-truck.20056/

I saw this too. Yes it is sad, but I can't say it surprises me. Mack didn't do anything to promote their driveline in the last several years. And just about every truck on dealer lots has vendor drivelines. And EVERY time I spoke with dealers about ordering an all Mack truck they ALL talked me out of it and pushed Eaton and Meritor. So it's pretty sad when the MACK DEALERS talked you out of buying Mack drivelines.

I don't know if you can say the CL350ST was built heavier than the Hayes or Pacific's but they were all pretty similar. I know they had some issues with the doors and cabs cracking and may were retrofitted with Hayes or pacific doors. It was also very interesting that the Challenger truck that came along later, designed by John Casanave, was offered with the Mack E9 V8 engine. He said they had very good power to weight to fuel economy ratio compared to the V12 Detroit's that were most common in those big trucks. I scanned a brochure for them on this forum somewhere a while back.

I've thought this before after seeing a few heavy spec Anthem's here pulling live bottoms. They had the 385 wide base steer tires and I thought they make a better looking vocational truck than a highway truck. I still HATE those ugly square hood side vents though.

Yes and another benefit is I go through the inspection scales and they don't even give you a second look when it looks like you are maintaining your stuff.

Not anything I thought you would ever see. This dealer always has some interesting specs in stock. https://www.nortrux.com/index.php?area_id=1001&page_id=1098&page_element_id=68&item_id=631&LIMIT68=20#element68

Here's the site specific to the XD Off Road. It shows all their alliances with the different body makers. https://www.westernstartrucks.com/Trucks/XD/ This could have been Mack.

I would guess the yellow DM's are E6 Mack's.

Hahaha, that's funny and ironic.

I think all Volvo has Mack for is to sell tee shirts and online merchandise to those of us that remember what Mack once was.

Ya, notice how many prominent Mack dealers now have more Volvo signage than anything. My local dealer Mack North....they even made them remove Mack from the name. Now they are All North. There are many other companies that got swallowed up by Volvo that I won't get in to, but what they have done to Mack and Champion Motor Graders really strikes a nerve with me.

Ya. They will build you a 6900XD off road with planetary rears and an Galaxy stand up sleeper if you want it. Want twin steer on that too? Sure. Want 600 h.p. and 2050 torque? No problem. Hell, up until just last year they would still give you a tier 3 Series 60 engine for off road use.

You got that right!! Nice white chassis for a life in the Alberta mud! LOL

So to add to the What is This Thread where I added the other pics, here are a couple more. The introduction of the Canadian developed and built RD800. The awesome CL350ST. The description is #2. A very cool Superliner add. And a Superliner Boom truck I have drooled over ever since I first saw it.

I really want that yellow DM dump!

My night shift snow haul got cancelled because they need the equipment to plow. So I dug up two of my old Canadian Bulldog mags. Sorry though....I took the easy way out and just took pics. But if you save them they can blow up to be easily read. And no I DON"T CARE if anyone uses my pics, LOL Got a couple other cool ones to show you but I'll start a separate thread. The DM's here were not out of the ordinary.....but it was those steel hood R's that caught my eye when I first saw this, because this was just before the RD800 was released.

I gets depressing looking at the antique and classic Mack section of the forum and seeing all the dominant heavy haulers Mack once had. Like the DM800's to the CL350ST to the M Series off road trucks. Sure you can say those markets have shrank to the point of being unprofitable. But Western Star and KW seem to be doing OK with it. Especially now that Mack HANDED over all their customers to them. Just look at the Western Star 6900XD line and all their partnerships with body companies to equip them. https://www.westernstartrucks.com/Trucks/6900/ Tell any of the loggers here to buy a Mack and they will laugh you out of the forest. All the heavy float and logging operations around here that had CL700's and Titan's all have Stars now. The Titan could have made it.......IF they gave customers what they wanted at a price that was comparable to Star and KW.

I'll see if I can dig them up and scan or something.

I have two Bulldog magazines from 1982 I think (because they covered the introduction of the Canadian built RD800 and also featured the CL350ST's) and they have a lot of these steel hood R's in these issues. There was a bunch shipped to Sri Lanka for some big project.