Terry T

Tuesday morning at 9:16am a maroon Buick drove into our dealership, drove all the way around the building and pulled up between two service bay doors, the guy popped his trunk lid, got out and put 3 used brake drums in the trunk, and one in the front passenger seat. Closed the door, closed the trunk lid, got in the car and was out of the lot in less than 1.5 minutes. One of our parts runners seen him as he was getting back into his car (just 15 seconds too late). We had the entire thing on camera, I headed out down the road and seen a Buick that could have been it at TSC and so did a FWPD officer, we both set on it for a minute then deterimined it wasn't it. PD left and within 30 seconds stopped a 2nd Buick that was not it either. Unless you have a very expensive system that can zoom in a picture after it is recorded (which we do) to check a plate, if you get lucky enough to have a good shot at the plate you have little or no chance of having better results then not having cameras at all. Most of these people are rather brazen, have been doing it for some time and they scout out all there marks, watch them, see what is where and strike when they are ready. I might also add that at any given time there are 4 parts runners, 10 other parts salesman and counter guys, the warehouse manager and a number of mechanics coming and going through the area. These people don't care they just grab and run...

http://www.indianafiretrucks.com/Station.aspx?StationId=632

Most of our Cruiseliners became CH600's as did several R's.

I'll add to my comment about getting directions: I always ask to speak with the shipping/receiving departments due to once asking for directions from the receptionist/operator who answered my inquiry with "um.... I don't really think, um... I don't know how to tell you to get here...." My reasoning/experience is that these are the people who typically deal directly with the drivers coming into their facility and, as we all know, truck drivers will always give you their piece of mind if there is an issue with directions and it seems that the folks in these departments have the best knowledge of directions due to this. It is also good for verifying ship/recv hours, appointments, etc...

a bit of a timeline for Mack Trucks. As you can see, Mack hasn't been Mack since 1967 1967: Mack Trucks becomes a part of the Signal Oil and Gas Company. Later that year Signal changes its name to The Signal Companies, Inc. 1970: Mack moves into its new Allentown world headquarters. 1979: Renault buys 10% of Mack Trucks, Inc. 1982: Renault increases ownership stake to 20%, Signal lowers its stake to 10%. 1983: Mack Trucks conducts an IPO and issues 15.7 million shares of common stock. Renault increases holdings to 40%, while Signal reduces its stake to 10.3%. 1987: Renault reorganizes; Renault Véhicules Industriels buys Renault's Mack shares. 1990: Mack Trucks become a wholly owned subsidiary of Renault Véhicules Industriels 2001: Mack together with Renault Véhicules Industriels becomes part of Volvo AB of Sweden, the parent company Renault S. A. receives a 20% stake in the combined company. (In 2002 Renault Véhicules Industriels changes its name to Renault Trucks.) 2006: Mack has a record sale year. 2008: Mack announces relocation of corporate headquarters to Greensboro, North Carolina

The dropped coil is the responsibility of the towing company. The reason for the tow is the responsibility of the driver, not the GPS. I don't use GPS in my personal vehicles and I wouldn't use one in a truck. I will always call for directions because only a person familiar with the area can tell you about the "rouge" tree limb that the city won't do anything about or that 3 blocks of that one street that are strickly residentual, etc. At least once a week I see a truck someplace he has no business being and I can just about guarantee that the driver is following a GPS unit. A GPS unit will never replace an atlas and good old common sense.

Indiana got hit with it as well. At the time my dad was living in my cousin's apartment. The cousin was a captian with the Ft Wayne Fire Dept. Norm called dad and said the FWFD needed his snowmobiles and they would have a FF on a snowmobile there in an hour to get the keys to the building that the sleds were kept in. Fire & PD borrowed every sled available and the FD, PD and Street Dept went to every car dealership in town and took every 4X4 on every lot in town and pressed them into service as emergency vehicles. In 1978 there were not nearly as many snowmobiles, 4X4's 4X4's with blades, snowblowers... None of the things we pretty well take for granted today. I lived with my mom & step-dad on a dead end street that was 3 blocks long with no cross streets. Everyone pitched in and we all dug out, using 3 snowblowers and a whole lot of shovels and muscles, our driveways and the street in front of our homes. We could get to the next "major roadway" but that was it. It was two days before the city got it opened. In 1983, when I was 17 I bought my first 4X4 and have had one ever since with the exception of one winter.

I'm very suprised that no one has linked to this site. I had forgotten that I had this book marked until a few minutes ago. http://www.restoreevelrig.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=56

They were first built in Emeryville, CA and later in Ft Wayne, IN if I remember correctly.

Several of the guys over at Hanks got up in arms over the past few years because of different people setting up "Truck Spotting" websites then taking the pictures off of other sites like Hanks and posting the pics as their own. I understand why they got upset over those issues but at the same time once you put something on the web, it's on the web.... I think Michael Martinelli (FDNYtrucks.com) has the set up and if the guys over at Hanks are all so concerned about their pic's being stolen then they should do what Michael has done.

If you think about it, one might be better off under the truck. The thing that often causes the fatal injury to the occupants of a tractor is the crushing between two trailers. In this situation, depending on where the axles of the trailer ahead are, there is a good chance that the cargo area of the Strick will make solid contact with the truck ahead before the Strick cab has a chance to crush. Re-ending a car would not be much different in this then in the front of a passenger van... Just an opinion.

I don't remember the model, but I'm going to have to go with the Corbitt as well. One was featured in WoT a while back. That was a long way up (or down!).

Just Old Trucks is not in anyway a part of ATHS. It was created by the same group who rebuilt the ATHS forums a few years back. Some issues occurred and Just Old Trucks was created for old truck people. Most of the ATHS forum regulars moved to JOT, a few are on both sites and as Mike H mentioned there is still some issues at JOT once in a while, but nothing like what was occurring at ATHS. I really think that what Mike is referring to was a very unusual incident and it's too bad that it happened.

http://www.mydeathspace.com/article/2007/01/20/Samantha_Merchant_(17)_was_electrocuted_after_crashing_into_a_power_pole This happened in 2006, it doesn't seem that long ago, to a couple local kids & a couple by-standers who just wanted to help. Always be completely aware of your surroundings.

So... Mikey was playing with chicken lights while you were bustin' your butt? Son, you and me.... We need to talk!

Back in '99 when I worked for Evans Equip one of our drivers was traveling near Sulphur Springs, TX on I-30 in a new IHC company truck. An illegal driving an un-insured pickup truck crossed the median and hit our truck in the left steer tire and fuel tank, the IHC burst into flames. Killed the illegal instantly, our driver got out of the truck with minor burns. He had recently filed for divorce and had everything he owned in the truck, tax papers, titles, clothes. Everything burned up. It took him more than a year to get everything squared away.

Ben, I think it's the same trailer and in the pic of the blue paint scheme the trailer is a tandem. Enlarge it and look again.

I guess I see things a bit differently. As mentioned Haiti is among the poorest countries in the world, a few years ago devastating earthquakes added insult to injury there. I have a couple friends who perform missionary work to Haiti from their church in Tampa, FL several times a year. The pictures & stories that they bring back will make you cry and turn your stomach at the same time. The simple fact that these trucks continue to do what they were built to do makes me happy, There is probably just barely enough money to keep them running and no where near enough to maintain them. Had they never been exported they would have been scrapped. Everyone on this board and several other boards want every truck saved. Can't do it, there isn't enough disposable income in our society with the current economy so the next best thing to happen to these trucks is for them to live on doing what they are suppose to do in these less than desirable situations.

I have wondered what ever happened to this truck. It disappeared from Corunna, IN a while back, I was afraid it had been cut. Cannot remember the guy's name who owned it but he is a stick hauler.

Well I was gonna paste the article that I read about this last week but for some reason I can't paste anything to this thread. The article was from a local TV station and stated that she fired all 6 rounds, 5 hit the perp and he had 4 exit wounds with punctured lungs, a punctured liver & a punctured stomach and was on a vent.

I have these and maybe a few others. Sold a couple on ebay so far but I would love to put a value on them before blindly selling them.

Is that Rick's Truck Service in Converse, IN?

Merry Christmas everyone!

It's a fun place to visit. Mike & family are wonderful people. (don't tell him I said that though...)

Can anyone guess this place?