Jamaican Bulldog

On 3/2/2020 at 11:20 PM, Mike Harbison said:

Yes,but not very many

Thanks. Do you know which Mack models had them?

Was Allis Chalmers engines ever used in Macks from the factory?

On 2/6/2020 at 1:43 PM, Red Horse said:

Ford is another example.   Every time I've ever questioned why Ford did not offer a Cummins/Allison option on the BON website I get the ..."too expensive" excuse.  Forget about the fact that they offered that option in the old 650/750-both the ones built at the Ford plant in Cautilan (Sp?) Mexico (2000-2003) but also the ones built in the Bluediamond JV plant at Escobedo from 2004 until the move to the Ford Avon Lake plant.  Not exactly a major  engineering effort to put that power train combo back  in the mix.  

So right about that. After the excellent 7.3 power stroke if they had gone Cummins/allison they would not have had to go through the expensive warranty costs associated with the disastrous 6.0 plus losing droves of customers. I am not sure if Dodge/Ram had exclusivity on the Cummins in the class 2 to 5 and can't see why it would have been more expensive to have those vendor components. 

On 2/3/2020 at 8:03 AM, convoyduel said:

The R&D costs of designing Class 8 trucks and remaining on top of government vehicle mandates, emissions mandates and the like cannot be carried within the pricing of relatively low volume, high production cost Class 8 trucks.  The European companies that are buying into American truck brands have R&D and engineering resources through their other automotive brands.  Modem vehicle technologies like lighting, electrical systems, canbus and multiplex electrical architecture cannot be supported by Class 8 sales alone yet remain at or near the leading edge of the various technologies.  

Great points. Sound good unviable  government mandates simultaneously helped killed domestic makers while putting many truckers out of business. You are right many European makers were large enough and could spread R&D throughput other vehicle lines. GM and Ford could have done that too but abandoned class 8 as they mismanaged the rest of their auto business.

On 1/31/2020 at 6:47 AM, kscarbel2 said:

VW purchased its stake in Navistar in September 2016, laying the groundwork for a footprint in North America, the truck industry’s largest source of profits. Daimler’s Freightliner and Volvo’s Mack divisions generate significant sales in the region.

I still can't get over how North America is the truck industry's largest source of profits but somehow most of the American brands of heavy trucks eventually became European or foreign owned. SMH

2 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

But there’s nothing special about it. It has nothing at all over the T270/370, which is at this late stage firmly established in the market. 
Unless they price them competitively, which Volvo never does..........

It will be interesting to see if it offers other engine and transmission options or if there will be a cab over medium duty Mack again. Hino also seems to be gaining in this market too. I see alot more on the road especially as tow and utility trucks in NY.

Nice! looks nice too. Glad to see Mack in the medium truck business and using Cummins. As often discussed here they have greatly missed to while others are doing well especially the Japanese. Hopefully Mack will sell many as tow trucks too. 

Will there be a Volvo version to syphon sales from Mack intros segment?

I build and collect model trucks as a hobby and have a friend who has business doing custom model trucks. Probably his biggest sellers are trash trucks of all kinds especially roll off. It is popular for both the kids and adults

Will Mack still offer manual transmissions from vendor components?

On 12/29/2019 at 11:41 AM, kscarbel2 said:

Mack engineers were developing an AMT version of the "world's best" Maxitorque triple countershaft transmissions, but Volvo canned it.

Another evolution of a proven Mack design that was aborted by Volvo and gone to waste

12 hours ago, mowerman said:

my DM is 23 ft long 8 and a half ft tall....bob

Is it a tractor and what type of DM?

I have been thinking of doing the same thing and I might be able to out a truck in my back yard without the neighbors seeing it. Does anyone know about how long and tall is a day cab tandem axle R model Mack?

On 2/24/2014 at 4:46 AM, bulldogmack58 said:

OK Superdog, I'm with you! We've answered my question pretty well so now I'd like to see a DML800 too! Anyone got something? This is half the the fun of it for me, tracking down the odd, different models that Mack produced over the years. Cheers Mick

p.s. are they anything to do with the detroit powered DM's seen on the net?

What is a DML800?

Really a damn shame. I know automatics are becoming more a common place due to less people knowing how to drive one and the whole powertrain integration for emissions etc but Mack brand equity is carelessly and in some ways purposely wasted

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/922434804779476/

Not mine but it is an interesting heavy truck that someone here may want to have

18 hours ago, DJC said:

Everything pertaining to the roll off was scratch built.

Thats amazing! Have you considered casting and selling that? there are few if any roll off kits this hobby

5 hours ago, DJC said:

Here's a couple of pics of my DM600 roll-off. It's in 1/25 scale☺️

Did you scratch build the roll off or did you purchase as a kit?

1 hour ago, kscarbel2 said:

At this time of the year, with Mack brand sales slowing, Volvo will consider the strike a blessing in disguise.

When you observe the late model tractors on U.S. highways, Freightliner accounts for 40-45 percent, Paccar (Kenworth and Peterbilt) 40-45 percent, Navistar International 5-10 percent, Volvo 3-6 percent, Mack 2-5 percent and Western Star 1 percent.

https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/56885-mack-trucks-market-share-continues-decline/?tab=comments#comment-421305

 

I have been making a mental note of the new brands on the road in relation to new Macks. Seems about right but noticing more and more Volvos even as vocational trucks. Very few Anthems. Shame

It is still opened on a Wednesday but I think you have to call. I believe there may still be trucks in side. Many are now with the Mahan collection in NJ

On 9/29/2019 at 4:57 PM, Vladislav said:

Was keeping an eye for an MH tandem tractor which was in service in Southern part of Russia. Actually a city of Novorossiysk - a big sea port at Black sea. It used to tow trailers with containers from the port and do other hauls until got a synchro issue and lost hi range in its T2090 9-speed. Overall condition was poor either and the owner was running out of money and went out of business as the follow. So the truck was put for sale about a year back or so. The price tag was way out of common sence but he made a drop in a month and I called him. Learned some basic facts and put the deal on a back burner. Than this past spring I had a side business in the region so I made a 1600km road trip with a car and checked out the truck in person. Wasn't lucky observing the chassis condition and didn't make any offer. Actually just kicked the tires. Than I took 3 more months having the truck on my mind and finily resolved to buy it since as long as I could figure there were only two MH's survived all over the country. One was already in my yard and that was the other. So I got my breath away, made a call and offered 80% of the last discussed cost. The owner took 2 days and than said Ok.

Further story was relatively smooth. I took my former wifey for the company (to drive a car) and she was eager for a travel. Got to the place in two days, arranged all paperwork with the owner in two days more and fixed a couple of small troubles on the 3rd day. After that I asked him to drive the truck myself when still with him to see how the things actually were. He drove 10 or so km, made a U-turn and I continued myself. First trouble was shifting since the shifter was really worn and almost impossible to put it in the top hole. Another issue was me always keeping right too much since I never drove cabovers and didn't use to be sitting right above the left wheel. But further events made me sad. After getting back closer to the place the truck was parked I couldn't shift into Lo (Lo gear of the high range was the lowest since he blocked compound in high range due to the synchro fail). After some more attempts the owner took driver's place and finally stated he couldn't get either Lo or reverse. And his suggestion was a broken shift fork in the main box since he had something similar in the past. I had doubts on that because seemed of not so easy for such brake doing nothing extraordinal to the shift lever. But having no other options we removed the top cover. Good thing cabover has free access to it. To my big surprise we found a half of fork sattling on the lo/rev sliding clutch. Good thing it didn't fall further into gears and another good thing the owner had a spare tranny apart including two forks. He had a brake down in the past indeed but not the same gears. It took us an hour or less to swap the part and put the cover back on. After that I thought to myself to drive the truck home hoping for no serious issues but being ready to call towing service to put it to nearest parking lot or a shop for further suggestions. Actually it was original plan since I didn't expect really smooth way of things from well worn rig.

Being at a Black sea coast we took a day on a beach. In fact the woman already spent a day there when I dealt with Mack but I could catch only one. Sure preference of spending time sunbathing or driving a Mack is questionable to some guys so I started the trip back home. Ufff... About no shifting, tire bouncing and smell of transmission oil pretty soon since it started getting off from the shifter on the top cover. All that wasn't really bad since the truck continued moving. Forgot to mention one "nice" especiallity. Probably fuel supply pump was bad or so and the owner installed small electrip pump into supply fuel line. The pump was off injector car but the way of attachment... It was put in between two portions of rubber hose hanging on them between left hand fuel tand and chassis rail (and leaking ocassionally). The wires were a top notch job. One took its way straight from positive battery pole and wrapped over the pump terminal. Another wrapped over the 2nd terminal and than attached (sure just wrapped over) some chassis part. And when you park the truck and going to off the pump you reattach the positive wire off the terminal. And sure if you leave it falling down and catch any chassis part it was making sparks. I could live with that during the trip but in some first 50 km the engine shut off and the reason was that loose wire. The shoulder was empty and it didn't happen again. Further things turned out very well since the truck survived the trip and we got home in two days. I made 600 km on the 1st day (we started about noon) and covered 1000 km more on the 2nd one. Oh, and all that was with tranny in direct so the fasted I did was 80km/h. Maybe that was good.

LOL Those Lada lights don't look too bad either

A similar think is happening with regular cars especially with more powerful and efficient  turbo engines at smaller displacement. However I hope with the truck market the transition will be primarily be  because of technology and market demand and not due to govt mandates by people who couldn't even identify 3 parts under the hood.

I would go just to look. 😀

https://www.todaystrucking.com/mack-pumped-about-truck-sales-construction-business/?fbclid=IwAR3_TMnKP4Nks4A74iy8zl_sk8G6bo81GdhWw-9QlBd8g4D7qXghr3q5a_0

23 hours ago, Red Horse said:

JB- to me that does not look like an offset cab-look at air cleaner.  Good looking regardless-lot of engine inside that cab!

Ohhh ok, I had thought it was the short nose that made it a U model. You are right that does not seem off set. This actual truck is local. I am going to try to take a closer look.

20 hours ago, 41chevy said:

That is a DC 94 Series conventional  "driver cab"

Another bit of knowledge I didn't know. This type seems to be rare,  I have only seen one like this. If I meet the owner I will encourage to take to a show. It is still a working truck.