michael c

I am looking to buy a B 57 in any reasonable condition. If you know where one might be available feel free to contact me any time childresstrucking@yahoo.com or cell (812) 239-3962 thanks, michael

I have a couple of DM 690's the one I just bought has a bad body pannel on passenger side that the lower mirror bracket bolts to. I am unbolting the pannel and the three bolts that go to the cab behind the aircleaner the welds on the nuts broke. I cannot tell where the nuts are to get to them? It looks like if I remove the bottem passenger door hinge they might be inside the door jam frame. Dose anybody know?

I don't know how many liberty superdogs were made but being in Indiana I bet I know who purchased that one new. I drove it a couple of times!

16390 I feel your pain I found one of the nicest single B-61's I had ever found for a project. I was delivering a load of stone one day not too far from home and I spotted a mid 70's U model in a woods with a junk demo trailer hooked to it. The more I thought about it the more I woundered what other goodies might be in there with it. About a two day later I went back and asked the property owner if I could go scavenger hunt she said no problem. On my adventure a little farther in the trees I found this excellent single axl B-61. I looked the truck over good and could not belive the shape it was in, other than a broke air horn and winshild form a tree limb that had fell visibly I couldn't find much wrong at all. The cab had no rust even at the bottem in the back seem where they are usually bad, the seats were not even torn "sweet". Needles to say it was coming home with me I didn't even care if it ran. I skipped back to the house and played it up like I would do them favor and get that "junk" out of there, she said I could just have the truck if I come got it, so I told her I would be back in about a week once I got done on a job with my little dozer to drag it out "ok" she said. In the mean time the county the truck was in just passed a new ordance that any vehicle without plates and not garaged the property owner would be fined. About a week and half went by and I went back for the truck and what I found was sickning. When the old woman found out about the ordnance she must of paniced she had her grandson go ahead and drag the truck out with his tractor but instead of chaining it around the bumper or even the axle he looped it through the cab and drug the truck over on its top totally and competely destroying it! Needles to say that was slightly dissipointing.

I grew up in macks these are not macks. Grandad had two old Michigan loaders volvo destroyed Clark Michigan thats what they do they are a cancer they assimilate the good and replace it with garbage. They are not capable of any good designs of there own so they buy everyone elses. There could be improvements made on the old macks nobody says all change is bad but how long can you go with morphing one brand into another that knowone likes before you do the Clark Michigan magic trick and it dissapears. Where I live macks in the construction industry are by far the prefered brand there are virtually no volvo's. I know some guys who bought some "vhd's" with big milage, reliability and preformance promises "wa wa wa" none of the above, he got rid of all of them! This isn't a third world country people work hard for what they have and expect what the have to work hard for them. If I spend $xxx,xxx.00 on a piece of equiptment I expect it to be the best it can be not the cheapest or the flimsiest. As for the service dept. with the "your mack is homorphodite" attitude there is probably no place and no one thing in this country that they could lay a finger on that a MACK TRUCK wasn't a part of building, hauling, moving or whatever else you can think of.......So remember when you see the old "DM" or the "R" or every once and a while the "B" that is not just a truck or a piece of iron its coal to the power plant, rock to the ready mix, blacktop to the highway, a ride with grandpa on a warm summer day black smoke rolling, its history.

Where was the snow plowing photo from cause I don't want to live there!!!!!!!!!!

One of these days when I get rich and powerful ha ha I would like to build a b triaxle. There were a match pair at one time I don't know what happen to LITTLE JOE the other LITTLE JENNY was turned over and burnt. I found another factory triaxle years ago but when I returned a few months later to buy it they had cut it for scrap. I was to young to remember them but they were always my favorite. When we were little me and my two brothers would load up in the old R "OLD BLUE" and go with grandad back in the woods behind the shop and load a load of coal and head to the Hickory tipple or down to Poland and fire up the ol 175 michigan and load a load of bank gravel and truck it up. Usually at some point by the end of the day end up at the dairy queen under the shade tree. GOOD TIMES!

Here are some pics of a couple of grandads macks and mine. Hope you guy enjoy some of these I'll will work on getting some more.

My name is Michael I live in indiana. My grandad was in the dump trucking business for over 40 years. Sience he passed I have had dump trucks for the past 10. Nearly the whole time we have had macks. I have grown up in the cab of macks and I'll probably go out in one, and thats fine with me. There has been B models, R's, RD's, RB's, and DM's running around our lot for years. I am looking foward to sharing stories with fellow mack fans. THANKS!