Bullheaded

You kinda hit the nail on the head Red Horse. At the time I started there were still a lot of gas jobs working. And those Ford's where everywhere around here doing everything from dump trucks, to loggers to hauling freight. But I had dreams of R Models and Superliners in my head, LOL So you didn't think of Ford as a "real big truck." But the truth was they had a real good frame. Add to that a nice interior, good visibility and maneuverability, etc. The biggest problems I've seen with them is the same as with all old Ford cars and trucks. Cab rust and the vinyl dash that would would crack and split from the sun. It was very hard to find a Ford that didn't have a cracked dash. But ya, that little short hood LTS was a fun truck when you had a 400 or 425 Cat under the hood.

To think back in the day I drove so many of those Ford's I was praying to get out of one because I wanted a Mack. Today I wish I could get back into an old Ford, LOL. They were a good truck. Drove many with 2 stroke Detroit power and a few 3406B Cat's.

Probably get lots of coffee breaks on that job every time it does a parked regen, LOL.

Ya, but even if that ever did happen, Volvo would still make sure Mack ignores the heavy haulers. They would probably limit it to 450 h.p. and 1650 torque. LOL

I would have come un-F'n-glued on that clown, LOL. He would have never heard the end of what a piece of shit is, LOL. I did that at my Star dealer one day. Salesman wasn't too happy. I didn't know he had a customer in a new Star and was making a deal, I only saw him. So I walked up and made the comment about the piece of shit lemon, and then went on about what a piece of crap mine is. LOL.

Not talking about Volvo being smart.....talking about the new owners of the Autocar brand.

I could be wrong, but I thought Autocar had the ACL conventional right to the end. I do know for sure that a couple years later when that group of investors bought the Autocar name and trademark, they also bought the rights to the White Expeditor cab which they still use.

No comments yet?!!! I'm waiting for this one!!!! LOL.

The new Autocar also makes yard shunt trucks too. They are a big seller for them also. https://www.autocartruck.com/

I think it's more that they are smart enough to stick what is profitable for them. They wouldn't have much market share amongst all the other conventionals. And you are right James, I still see lots of old steel hood Autocars at work every day in Michigan too.

And another iconic brand Volvo killed off. Autocar.

Since it's was April Fools and I know you all love Volvo, remember this large car? Volvo's attempt at a long nose owner/op machine. What an ugly bastard, LOL Only thing that was impressive was it had a 625 h.p. motor for a while until they downgraded it to a 600.

They are running these Dramis dumps near me in the mines here. But they are the Kenworth and International HX versions. There are a few companies now that do the twin steer conversions, but Simard does pretty much all the factory installs, except for Western Star. I think they are one of the only companies that builds their own twin steers in-house.

You are correct Brocky. I'm hauling for the city right now. Night and part of day shift. Our city got rid of all their old self propelled V12 Detroit blowers and now has 4 of these LaRue D60 loader mounted blowers. We load under one on the street and this is one (along with a D8 Cat) in one of the 6 snow dumps we have. So in the last two months we have made 6 piles of this size . And yes sometimes it does take until August before it is all gone.

A friend of mine brought these videos to my attention a while back as we both follow a lot of farming stuff. That is a beautiful truck. And hearing the bark out those straight pipes brought back a lot of good memories of my old 9370.

It's too bad they just didn't split it up and have Volvo trucks for the aero fuel economy highway crowd. Give them all the tech crap. And give us Mack guys are old school cabs, heavy specs and big power.

Yep, if we do truly have to have this global economy stuff, I wish Mack and Renault would have just stayed together as they were. I never used to think Volvo was bad, but now that I think about it......Mack has completely vanished from heavy haul, logging and oil field. There's definitely something wrong with that picture. I have disagreed with a lot of Kscarbel opinions in the past, but I see he likes International, so he's good in my books!! LOL.

Welcome to my world, LOL We went through a few weeks of minus 40/minus 50. Now last night it was going from rain to white out snow storm back to rain. And thunder and lightning the whole time. Very strange.

9000 KG per axle. If I had 72 inch rear inter-axle spread it would be a bit more. I don't run 72 inch spreads because they are hard on tires and I don't work ton/mile. I am usually always hourly. So this truck as with mine has an allowable gross of 36,000 KG. So that is 79366.414 pounds. And I gross 140,000 with the three axle pony.

No, they will just kill them off eventually like they did to White, Autocar, Michigan, Champion Motor Graders, etc. LOL.

Interesting to note though, when we were selling the Coronado many Freightliner/Western Star dealers weren't interested in trading it as they told me the FL's have no resale value and sit on their lots? I found that truck way better built than the Star.

I really like our Coronado (sold now). I think I like it better than my current Star 4900. It rode, steered and rode just as nice, was just as quiet and comfortable. It also was a loaded model, so it had a really nice interior. Only thing that could be improved was the doors, just as most Freightliner's, felt very thin and flexy and the door handles are weak. Other than that was a very good truck. Had a LOT better build quality than my Star. Even the paint and chrome plating held up much better.

It's a 21 foot dump box. My Star 4900 is 266 inch wheelbase. The lift has to be 100 inch ahead of the drives here. And now we have a regulation called SPIF...so they all have to be steering lift axles that self equalize and no driver control. They automatically go down with around 4500 KG of load. I install illegal lift switches because despite what the government says, they do not steer on slippery roads or off road. Just another stupid law that doesn't work, made by people that don't drive. As delivered from factory you can raise them by turning the 4-way flashers on for a 3 seconds, then off for three seconds, then back on. Try that when you are sliding out of control towards a car full of someones family.

Ya, those transfer cases in those trucks do not seem very strong if you go beyond their design limits. A friend of mine bought one of those army 6x6's to forward logs in the bush and his grenaded like that too.

That is why I was hoping for a change from Star. Even if the next one is better, one lemon leaves a real bad taste in your mouth. I've always had good luck with International's.....but they were Cat powered, LOL.