Edmond

On 5/11/2009 at 12:31 AM, huppypuppy said:

Guten tag Ralf,

Thanks for correcting me - it was an Italian mag the pic came from so I assumed they would have been there! I was surprised when I saw your post telling me they were in Iran!

Joe

Yeah diect message me instagram edmondmokasian ill send you 100s of pictures 

On 5/10/2009 at 11:41 AM, koch87 said:

Hi there,

thats me, Ralf Koch from Germany.

No, such trucks was never in operation in Italy.

I was several times in Iran and I know the machines and the heavy hauling business very well.

The shown Macks are in use at Unitrans, Iran Dena, are two F 997SX, built in 1975 for military operations.

The Iranian engineer told me that this two units was part of a series of propably four units, built for the military application at first.

Only this two tractors are known in civilian use now.

Both 6x4 trucks are powered by the E9 V8-engine and 500 hp, manual gear boxes and planetary axles.

Iran Dena is one of the major companies in the Persian heavy hauling business.

More information about this tractors and many other impressive Mack trucks, stories and background information you can find in my book about this business:

It is a book about all heavy transport companies in Iran and about the equipment of each company

About 650 pictures in color, starting from the history with Mack B87SX up to the oversize RD800SX or DM800SX on planetry axles.

Different units was deliverd as customized prototypes, so many models you have never seen before, for sure!!

Check the preview picture to get a feeling about the working condition. Up to 7 tractors, 500hp each, pulling a heavy load!

Other transports have to cross rivers of 5 feet water! ... and most of the tractors are 30 years old!

Heavy Hauling Iran

www.truckbook.de

Best regards

Ralf

Yeah 100% correct, direct message me on instagram i send you 100s pictures of these macks

Edmondmokasian

Find my instagram page  i have pictures of them

Edmondmokasian

all of heavy hauler f900 series are purchased by my company, all of those are healthy and alive 

On 11/12/2008 at 6:46 AM, ThaddeusW said:

I found this on the cover of an Italian heavy haul magazine. I tried to contact them but their contact page is broken.

Here is part of the cover page featuring two Mack F900's with Planidrive axles. The axles have a capacity of 100-110k! Damn I keep finding more and more incredible F models. I Wish I could see them first hand! Real beasts and working hard pulling that vessel. I wonder what they had for power. Anyone know anything about these units? I checked the Mack model production sheets and only 5 variations of the F900 were built. Since very few of these trucks were probably built I can only guess that they are either F995's (5 made), F997's (3 made) or F9976's (4 made). Possibly these are 997's? Could the Mack museum help me find out who purchased these units?