james j neiweem

Do they use petercrappers also?

Is that an Autocar or a Mack?

Maybe some American company can buy volvo truck and Mack and then dump volvo and bring back A-Car. Wishfull thinking of course.

Nothing better than a fleet of brand new B's

Like those B model plows. Those DM's may be White Oak (only a guess) I think they numbered there trucks on the grill guard like that. Numbers seem to be close.

As I remember Mutrie also had a number of White 4000's

Green and white R models. Remember them well. B models and White 4000's also.

Talk about crashing through the barn door 100 yards away.

Vision 386. I feel your pain but don't get overly bent out of shape- over one Hank's site pissant contributor Mr. S---K. 99% of their contributors are decent sorts as far as I can tell.

I believe that Chicago cab also made the B model cab which also somewhat looked like the IH KB and the Reo cabs and studebacker for that matter.

BCR Another Illinois when I was a kid story. I never saw the Olson of Greenbay R/BCR Macks. What I used to see were a few GMC cannonball's and a ton of cracker boxes with the 6v-53 or 8v-53's detroits.They definately had a unique sound. Kind of quiet. Not like the 71 series at all. There colors used to be maroon and yellow. There was also another Olson that used to come down from Wisconsin They were all IH's with the 549 V-8 gasers. Their colors were orange with black trim.

Seems like the Illinois truck manufacturers IH/Diamond-T/Hendrickson shared alot of components and technology.

fullfuel01 Just saw that myself. You beat me to it. Good detective work

As has been said volvos and Macks share many common parts. With that in mind I see very few fleets that use both volvos and Macks. You would think there would be more of them. I remember in a Bulldog magazine they featured Duie Pyle and were hoping for a long relationship in the future. Ever since that article Duie has gone freightliner and volvo. Volvo must have pulled the rug out from under Mack in this instance. I see a few big fleets that have newer volvos will have Macks but they are usually second hand CH 600's (yellow/New Penn for instance)

They called the original mack H model (H-61) the cherry picker because it was so high. Later on they dropped the heigth by about a foot (H-67). At the now defunct (unfortunately) truck museum in Connecticut I stood next to an IH cabover DC 405? (before the emeryville). The one that had the little IH comfort cab on top( same as r-190 cab). This thing was tall. I'm guessing maybee higher than the cherry picker. It was dark blue as I remember. There was also a KW bullnose (light blue) there and the IH was definately higher.

I believe Mason Dixon had a bunch of big rad B-65's or 67's

I believe FWD and Sicard also used the IH comfort cab.

Superdog. I agree with you with the Granite VS T 800. However here in Ct it seems that Mack just can't make much headway into Paccar domination. Gateway/Tilcon/O&G/Rawson/American/Suzio. I guess we will see what happens when the Paccars get to the end of there life cycle. I am sure they will not have second lives the way the old Macks had.

I believe suzio still runs R Model tractors with dump trailers (maybe 3 or 4). After retiring their DM 800's (#45) they bought a few pete tri axle dumps. I believe there newest tri axles are KW.

If you go to bing maps and view the Suzio yard in meriden you can see lots of old iron.

Who makes the Rockwell rear ends or who bought them out.

BCR All of the Crystal Lake Hendricksons that I saw as a kid were red tractors with huge red trailers. The trailers sat higher than the Dundee trailers. Maybee the Crystal Lake tractors were more heavily speced or had taller rubber. All were Cummins power except for one Harnishfegger. There was another company in the area that had dundee colors but were B-61 macks. I notice that there still is a Dundee sand and gravel up in Wisconsin.

I remember those Crystal Lake and Dundee Hendrickson tandem tractor dumps from the early 60's. I never took a liking to them because there were so many Celli Macks around. I did like the black and yellow Dundee colors. Two of the sharpest dump tractors I ever saw from that time were a red and black Diamond-T 921RB and a red and black Mack B-61 for OK trucking. I think they must have been brand new at the time. Later on OK was a freight company using Mack F's and Louiville fords as I recall.

I'm thinkin she could give you a concusion.

Seems like the CXU is keeping everything afloat. It 's good competition for Shacker and Navistar. Now they need to upgrade the CHU to Superliner and add (MP-10 and Cummns) to compete with Paccar. Navistar was on the ropes and moved quickly to Cummins. Need to upgrade the Granite to compete with the T-800. If we got a coalition of Watts Mackers together I think we could run Mack better than Volvo although we could use their deep pockets. Modernize the MB. Modify the MB to include a front discharge mixer. Expand the application of the class seven Mack. Hello its not selling. Put a big sleeper on the Titan. Change the the Titan hood to a Superliner or Tridant.