Terry T

This is a collection of my "kids" First is Henry & Elvis. Both of whom we lost several years ago. Niles who went with Kim when she moved out in 2011. Sheldon, who was my rescue & also went with Kim in 2011. Lucy who also went with Kim in 2011 & we lost in 2012. Elsie who we lost in 2011. Skip who we lost in 2010.

The best thing about this forum, everyone has their own opinion of things. I completely dislike that shifter knob. That was one of my favorite things about all of our 5 speed R Models. The straight stick & knob. It was easy to work around when you need to get stuff in & out of the cab & it was far enough out of the way that you never had to worry about it banging your arm when you were on rough roads and the stick & cab were shaking in opposite directions.

Driver went around the crossing gates at the RR crossing with a short hopper bottom and still managed to somehow drive off the shoulder and as he tried to pull it back onto the road he flipped it...

I can toss in a couple of Sheriff Department commission's that got "Tore Up" The marked unit was a reserve deputy (and son of the recently retired Sheriff) responding to a domestic dispute, He over shot a "T" intersection & crashed into a wooded area. When he hadn't made the scene & could not be reached an ISP Trooper went looking for him & found him. He lived but brain injuries have left him partially disabled. The unmarked unit was in a pursuit that went really wrong. 1st portion of the pursuit ended in a pasture when the suspect fled his car on foot in the dark as the deputy chased him he doubled back and got to the commission and took off in it. Fences, cattle gates, trees, utility poles, other police cars and a few ditches later & there was not one straight panel on the car.

A friend of mine worked that ISP crash (WAFFCO Towing & Recovery). Two Troops, rookie & trainer. Both lived, very lucky. They were in the car, in the median running radar when the Pete ran off the road & hit them.

I believe they are a regional thing mostly along the east coast area much like Power Call Sirens. We have began seeing the Roto Ray Lights here in the midwest a little bit. Like maybe 1 in 15 departments and only on 1 of that departments truck.

Driver pulled in & thought that he could swing around & back into one of the two indoor loading docks... The business was a reclamation company and had used industrial cooling oil. Since I had only one winch & cable on this wrecker I poured some of the oil (with the company's permission) onto the tires of the truck and ground & with one cable & 3 (groups of) chains, one to the tow hook in the tractor, one to the frame of tractor between tandems & one to the trailer suspension, all at length to pull evenly, I very slowly, adding oil as needed, winched the truck in a "V" out of his situation. The owners of the company were friends of mine and before I was done with the pull Bob called me & told me not to finish up until he got there as he had not told this driver that he was bringing another driver to finish things up there & take the truck back to the terminal and that the driver who did this was being terminated.

This was in 1978 & Parrish Leasing had won the contract to provide leased units to what was then Wabash Fibre Box in Ft Wayne, IN. We also had to purchase the tractors that were currently under lease which were 7 IHC Fleetstar's which became the Brothers Express fleet of city tractors. There were actually 7 of the R Model's but we only delivered 5 on this Saturday morning. They had already put 2 into service earlier in the week.

While this isn't the 1st Mack that I drove it is from the same era. The first Mack I drove was a 1975 Cruiseliner with an (I believe) ENDT 866 & a 5 speed. Not only was it the 1st Mack that I drove, it was the first licensed vehicle of any kind I had ever driven at age 14. When I see the pic of Mike H's red Cruiselner it puts me in mind of Unit 350 which was the number of the truck. The one pictured is 360. 330 was a V8/5speed powered R700 that was purchased along with the V8 Cruiseliner, 350 then 360 & 361 were I6/5speeds. This began several years of Cruiseliner purchases at Parrish Leasing. When all was said and done we had been through 26 Cruiseliners before going to MH613's. Many of the Cruiseliners were kitted into R Models & early CH600 gliders and the donor's where scrapped.

I'm not a fan of the customized Cruiseliner but it does show some talent to make it look that good.

If I'm not mistaken, that is actually the prototype COE "Prosleeper" that was at IHC's design center on Meyer Rd in Ft Wayne/New Haven IN. The Prosleeper was the "flatfloor" COE. I had the opportunity to be in that truck during a benchmarking session. JB Hunt, at the time, had IHC wrapped around their little finger to the point that they could demand that certain IHC employees be relocated to Arkansas to be closer to Hunt's corporate HQ. This truck was almost completely assembled with cotter pins, duct tape & velcro because it was a prototype and they were moving and fitting everything where they could. It wasn't surprising at all that a prototype would be in Hunt livery at the time but it was only a year or so later that Freightliner got their foot in the door at both Hunt & Schneider and that pretty well spelled doom for IHC as they had put a lot of their eggs in those two baskets.

He has left every forum that I am on. I don't have any info on him. Sorry.

Much less and it's scrap value then everyone on here would be complaining because he's selling it to a scrapper.... A lot of complaining about asking prices being too high, a lot of complaining because guys sell their own property to someone who ships it overseas, a lot of complaining about guys scraping trucks. I wish I had the money to buy at will, but like almost everyone, I don't so I just accept the fate that these vehicles see.

Well... It's not the big stuff but here is my snow removal equipment. I got out of the contract snow removal a couple years ago so I sold the Mule but still have the truck. The last two pic's are from the last weekend in January just a few days before January 2014 became the January with the most snow in the history of record keeping for the Ft Wayne, IN area at 30" which bumped 1982 to #2 & the blizzard of '78 to #4. Incidentally Feb 1st became the wettest Feb 1st in history when we got 1.14 inches of rain.... We're bracing for Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday afternoon now.

Glad you made it over from Just Old Trucks. There are some faces that you will see there & here.

The model kit that was available during that period. I began a build on this painting it like one of our units but never got it completed...

I had a calendar from 1978 that had the three "liners" in it in this paint scheme and the January picture had all three, The Cruiserliner, Superliner & Valueliner lined up. I loved that pic!

Mike H should chime in on the model #'s but MH613 would be a tandem axle, Mack powered tractor, MH612 single axle Mack powered tractor, MH633 tandem w/Cummins, MH632 would be single w/Cummins & I believe MH653/MH652 would be Cat powered. I'm not certain that I am correct in everything here but the XX3 will be tandem axle & XX2 will be single axle.

Hey all, This is obviously not truck related but a very dear friend of mine, Becky is looking for her birth-mother as she was adopted shortly after birth. She is actually the person who took the pic of my tat that I use as my avatar just a couple days after I got it. I am posting this here because her adoptive parents believe that her mother may have been from Penna. She believes that her mothers last name may have been Stutsman (unsure of correct spelling). This is the message that she posted on Facebook along with her picture: "To all my FB friends and everyone who may share this post for me. I would first like to say thanks for the share because the more we share the more chances I may have of finding my birth Mother. I also want to add that I have been contemplating finding my Mother for about 10 years now. I am torn with the fact that back when this happened she was sent away by her family to an unwed mothers school so that there would be no shame in her family. I surely don’t want to disrupt her life now if she in fact never told her family now about me. I of course would love to see her just to see where I came from but I in no way want to hurt her or her current family. I would like her to know that I was adopted and raised by a wonderful, loving family who taught me family values, morals, honesty, to have a great work ethic and to stand up for what you believe in. They have also never kept from me that I was adopted and they are behind me 100% in looking for my birth Mother. I also want her to know that I do not hold anything against her because she really had no choice. If you think you may know my mother or have any information please email me at helpbeckyfindmom@gmail.com . Thank you and God Bless!!!" If those of you who live in Penna could also help share this it would mean the world to me. Becky & I have had each others back through our divorces as well as other problem times & good times as well. I attached her pic with the info that she does have as well as a pic of her and I on one of her visits back to Ft Wayne as she now lives in the Tampa, FL area. Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give to Becky.

Mike, Do as the doctor's tell you. Last March my mom (in Indiana) and my dad (in Florida) both had surgery for preipheral artery disease. Both had the same basic procedure (by-pass of arteries in the left leg). Within days my dad was up & doing well by following the doctors orders. Dad quit smoking back about 1984 but still smokes cigars in the evening. Mom is still struggling to this day but she spends all day sitting on her ass in her kitchen playing solitaire & smoking cigarettes. Just a few weeks ago my dad scored a hole-in-one in one of his two weekly golf leagues. Mom is proud that the gangrene is almost gone but can hardly walk because she has refused to follow doctor recommendations to the point that shortly after surgery she was suppose to be going to the hospital to spend time in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber but she refused to get up before 8am so she could be there by 10am. Please, please follow doctor recommendations. Those guys seem to know what they're talking about.

International Sightliner.

December 7th, 1941

That's not one of the kits. That appears to be part of a conventional KW Aerodyne bunk grafted onto the Cruiseliner.

Don't remember a lot of issues with the '03's but the '04's... Wow! Fan hubs, turbo's and camshaft's. Company that I grew up around is a mostly Mack fleet, has been since the 1970's. They purchased 50 new 2004 CX's. I was running the tow truck for the local Mack/Volvo dealer at the time. I towed 22 of those 2004's. One of them I towed for all 3 of the above reasons. Buy the time all was said & done Mack (corporate) purchased all 50 trucks back. The company purchased available Volvo's to replace the 2004's then Mack arranged for the dealership to take the Volvo's in on trade against 2005 & 2006 Mack's. I do know there were some turbo issues starting with 2001 Mack's and continuing for several years as well as some other things but nothing like what I seen with the 2004's.

a bit belated.. Happy Birthday!!! 25, hmm.... My 25th fell into that abyss of time that is really fuzzy that started around 16 & went until 30. I hope your's was a good one!