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     I saw my first Anthem yesterday, it was from Market Basket Supermarkets, a chain in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and moving into Maine. It has had a fleet of Pinnacles for a few years. I've seen a few

    trucking fleets moving from Mack to other brands, A. Duie Pyle to Freightliners, R & L Carriers to Peterbilts and IHC, Continental Paving to Kenworths, etc. To be fair Continental over the years has used other brands like

    Volvo, IHC, among others; it probably isn't completely through with Mack. One place where Mack is making a comeback in New Hampshire is fire department tanker chassis. After years of departments moving

    to IHC, Peterbilt, etc. there are several new Macks around: Windham Tanker 2, 2017 Granite/Rosenbauer, 1500/3000; Rochester Engine 7, 2017 Granite/Toyne, 1500/3000; Dublin Tanker 1, 2017 Granite/KME, 1500/3500;

   Peterborough Tanker 1, 2015 Granite/KME, 1250/2500; Fitzwilliam Tanker 1, 2008 Granite/Ferrara, 750/2500. It's a start.

                                                   bulldogboy

That pump setup looks home made. Did the department buy a commercial chassis and build a fire truck on it? Do you know what department it came from? Nice little rig!!

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I think those Scania P 490s used in Greece and Spain are sharp looking trucks. They seem to look a little different than the typical European style COE. They don't have crew cabs though. Does the extra firefighting manpower arrive in a separate vehicle?

                                   bulldogboy

Yay, I had my 2007 Ranger's passenger side airbag activator replaced today!!!!

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                     A Massachusetts Mack "Granite".   

                            bulldogboy

I think that Ford's plan was to go with the Mustang next year, anyway. Hope that it stops raining in Loudon soon.

           When I see all your Mack photos from the museum I think that it's a shame that the FDNY Super Pumper and Tender didn't end up there. They certainly were a one of a kind Mack product.

                                              bulldogboy

                           Beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing. The weather looked great for a show.

                                                        bulldogboy

       Hershey's Ice Cream Company, Harrisburg, PA uses this Ford F-650 delivery truck. Hershey's used to have a fleet of GMCs but has switched to mostly Freightliners and Fords.

                                                                        bulldogboy

               Mack/Master Body Works trucks were built for the California Division of Forestry. I wonder what the reason was why it was never put into service, a training vehicle, maybe? 

               Mack "Team Manager" chassis.

                                                                                 bulldogboy 

     Nice to hear that it has been saved and not too far away. Along with Ayer & Goss Oil Company and Skip McKean Transportation, Henniker seems to have quite a few antique Macks. 

     According to McKean, "The Only Henniker On Earth".

                                                                   bulldogboy                    

     I saw a Mack "Freedom" (smaller version) in Merrimack, NH on Friday, 6/1/2018. Travelling in opposite directions so I couldn't get a photo.

                           bulldogboy

                A Massachusetts Mack taking a coffee break.  "CL" model??

                                         bulldogboy

Condolences to you and your family.

11 hours ago, james j neiweem said:

Didn't know that Nashua lasted that long. Did they have U models also? Whites Fords etc.?

I'd say the last 35, 40  years or so, Nashua was an all  Mack fleet using mostly "R" and "U" tractors. They also had a couple of "CH"s. Their trucks were older but everything, tractors and trailers,

were kept in good shape and looked sharp. Blue Line, on the other hand, had a variety of trucks. Their terminal was on top of a landfill, we had a few big fires in the landfill over the years.

Another former trucking company was N&B Express (Northampton & Boston) out of South Deerfield, MA. I compared them to Nashua Motor Express in that they ran sharp looking "R" model tractors.

                   bulldogboy

           Yes, too bad. Everything is gone now, even the terminal has been torn down and replaced with a strip mall.

                                              bulldogboy

St. George's, Bermuda Fire Brigade once ran this Mack "N-95F", 1000/600, pumper as "East 2". St George's and the Hamilton Fire Brigade have mergered

into the island wide Bermuda Fire Service.  Mack Truck photo.

                                               bulldogboy

glitchwrks:

I don't know. I was passing by on my way to Charleston, saw it, and had to take a picture. Three years ago I passed the same location and they had a Mack "CF" fire

truck for sale. It looks like an antique shop and they like to collect old Mack fire trucks. This photo was taken the end of March, 2018.

                         bulldogboy

        This 1980 Mack "MS-200" is for sale down the road from you on Alt. 17 in Walterboro, SC. I drove a 1980 Mack "MS-200" freight truck in the early 1980s. 

        A basic, no frills truck but I liked it.

                                                           bulldogboy

Happy Birthday.

                         I saw a lot of these new Isuzu crew cab Class 3 and 4 trucks in southwest Florida. They are very popular with landscaping companies.

                                                              bulldogboy

I saw quite a few new Ford F-650 and F-750 trucks on my trip down south. Over the years travelling it seems like I've seen more Ford medium duty trucks in the south than in New England. The one thing that I thought I would see, but didn't, was a new F-750 tractor. Coca-Cola trucks were mostly IHC with a few Sterlings.

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                         A Sunbelt Rental Mack making a delivery in Bonita Springs, FL, 2/2018.

                                                           bulldogboy

     A Ford F-650 water truck at a show horse training site in Ocala, FL, 1/2018. Not sure if the tank behind it really is full of Lite beer.

                                                             bulldogboy