storkmack

On 2/8/2020 at 7:29 AM, mackey58 said:

Any one make the truck show in Peoria 

We went a few years ago, nothing much to see there

Even though its not a 700, it appears to have a 700 frame.  

Our Granites all have cab mounted exhaust and have a pile of miles.  None of them have broken out.

46 minutes ago, Rob said:

I like the looks of this International. For sale on Boston Craigslist:

https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/hvo/d/accord-1996-international-tractor/7049536793.html

For the money, if it has an M11 Cummins, that would be a damn cheap work horse.   

Keep all this IH talk rolling on this Mack page!

We have the same trailer, except ours is on 4 spring and we don’t have the ramps.   Great trailer. 

Truck looks pretty decent for the money.  Is that an old Suzuki Endro sitting along side of it?

I’m not up on ELDs , but our gps tracking units work in our old mechanical Mack’s.  And those units track all the things that I assume  the ELDs track.  We use Flletmatics from Verizon.  

6 minutes ago, Rob said:

Passed one your trucks on I-80 at mile marker 100 headed east this morning. Charcoal/silver newer KW pulling a pneumatic tanker. I had a pickup in Montgomery at a garage door manufacturing plant.

Not a big fan of that one.  Should be getting painted soon.   Funny how Pete and KW use a common cab, but I care for the Pete more.

Not us.  I’ve seen Berkley pulling your guy’s trailers before.  

We deliver salt in there for the plow crew 

5 hours ago, Rob said:

No worries. Do you have any IH equipment with air brakes? I found a "Service" glad hand which is cast iron and plainly branded with "IH" and "Service" in the casting. Also found a front header panel emblem from an old "LoadStar" IIRC. 

We have a couple "modern" IH 9200's  cheap power we bought when the 2012 Mack's were killing us.

8 hours ago, Rob said:

Brad;

USPS shows package delivered 12/10/2019 @ 10:22a.m.  Want to ensure you have possession and I shipped it correctly.

Thanks,

Rob

Arrived as promised.   Thank you again. The problem now is that packages may come to you, from here.

I don't care what I hear about you, you are all right!  Enjoy the Grand Daughter.   My mother has had some medical issues here as of late.  We all realized how precious our time is here and to not take it for granted.  

12 hours ago, Rob said:

Hey Brad;

Can you use this for any of your IH trucks? These were original to my 1965 R-190 which I've had since 1974.

Never been out of the box I know of in all the years.

Rob

They would look awfully nice in the yellow truck.  

2 hours ago, 85snowdog said:

How about a 1976 Loadstar 1700 .

Its almost  Storkmack colours?   lol 

 

 

Stark colors in an International stripe scheme, what’s not to love about it?

That’s a fair deal SuperDog. 

Grain Truck is an A130

66DC75, I agree with your comment about the age of the Grain Truck.

10 hours ago, Bullheaded said:

And that's  the whole argument they use to keep bringing more in and giving them licenses. This supposed "driver shortage."

 

No, they can hire these people and "use and abuse" them to no end. They will do anything for any kind of pathetic pay. Don't matter if it is low pay or bad working conditions....they do it. And the industry takes advantage of that. They are modern day slaves.

It's funny too, how hard they make it for you to renew your license with 4 pages of tests with trick questions, yet most of these people cannot even speak english and they all have licenses.

It's almost like they WANT all the old professionals gone....you know the guys with 30 and more accident and conviction free years. You see a lot of these guys failing their tests just because they can't figure out the trick wording in a lot of the questions. Yet they have NEVER had an incident on the roads.

Well said!  Shortage of people wanting to work for sub par wages.  

13 hours ago, MackSTL68 said:

That’s a first never seen a HD Superliner Bumper sure looks like a DM 

We have a painted one off of a Value-Liner mixer that was rolled.    Bumper is in good condition and it is waiting for the proper truck to be put on.  

2 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

The X12 is NOT available from Paccar. The previous ISX12 was available.....and popular. But this year, when the X12 replaced the ISX12, Paccar did not sign a purchase agreement with Cummins for the X12, opting to only offer its own Paccar engines.

Currently, only Autocar, Freightliner (a new development) and Western Star offer the X12 in the U.S. market.

Paccar, I feel, shot themselves in the foot. Customers like choice, and the X12 is a great option. Their arrogant decision has already alienated a lot of Paccar customers.

Well the Pete we speced was in the fall of 17’ and we liked the  X15 enough that we didn’t even ask about it on the one we ordered this  spring.  Told them, to send another just like the last one.  You know, like we used to do with Mack. 

The X12 was an option in our 567 Pete’s.   We went with X15’s though.