Pete

The Mack plant was on the north side of the QEW just west of the on ramp from Royal Windsor past the terminal that used to be the Bond Shed but before Trafalgar Rd. there are newer buildings there now Pete

A friend of mine had what was purported to be the last B model built at the Oakville Ontario (now closed ) plant.It was a fire truck single axle gas powered was never sold ,used as a shunt truck at the plant .Eventually Waste Management got it put a diesel and automatic trans in it and a small packer trailer ,used as an advertisement My friend bought the tractor;painted it black with a big Mack emblem on the door.He kept it for years had a tilt &load trailer with it sold about 3 years ago to a farm tractor collector in the Brantford ON area.Still in use.Can,t find any pictures of it Pete

There was a guy there that owned a 1985 R688 that had been an Active truck.It turned out that the one I bought new was on the same order 1 digit different serial number Pete

Are you the owner that I gave a build sheet for a Mack that was 1 number different from mine Pete

I worked for Grant 2007 to 2009 might know you too Pete

Kent Lister.I bought 3 Macks 2 from John Dowler and 1 from Dave Curran. Might know your Dad Pete

That is a good posibility too.My friend said he heard Evans Ave location .I asked if it was Sottegraf or Performance he said heard MACK Corporate was the rumor thru his grapevine.He worked at the old branch till it closed and retired from Mack Sales later and keeps in touch with other guys. We will see Pete

A retired Mack sales man I know has heard that Mack is going to build a new Mack only company owned dealer in Toronto near the area the old factory branch Kipling Queensway was located ,Be interesting to see as the old factory branch was the last one to be closed. pete

A retired Mack sales man I know has heard that Mack is going to build a new Mack only company owned dealer in Toronto near the area the old factory branch Kipling Queensway was located ,Be interesting to see as the old factory branch was the last one to be closed. pete

Brings back memories ,Canada Diesel (Can Car) with Leyland Diesels .Sicards from Quebec and Scots from the east coast

Name: Brockway N361 (1971) Date Added: 04 January 2009 - 07:55 AM Owner: Pete Short Description: Tandem tractor View Vehicle

I sold my 96 CH 427 18 speed,38 rears all Mack front to back 198 wb 42"bunk good shape 840,000 mile $12000.00 in March 2006 Pete

Brockways used vendor parts no Mack stuff to my knowledge.It was a wholly owned subsiduary run seperately.The late Brockway and R cabs look the same but they are not.There are differences in the cowls and maybe the doors.this was discussed on the Brockway site a while back.I don't know if the entire cab would fit on a R model. I think the Brockway cabs were made by Budd.Scheller Globe my mistake pete

A friend of mine had a B 42 with a 413 in it from the factory early 60's not sure of year of truck. Pete

Check out truck exhaust specialists.There are couple around here,they make the stuff while you wait. Pete

Nobleton truck wreckers Nobleton ON been inbusiness since the 60's.Brooks Truck Parts ,Freelton Truck Wrecker ,both in Freelton ON which is on Hwy 6 between hwy 5 and 401. Pete

Both my R models ,85,86 came like that.Up here nearly all trailers except for a few fleets were spoke wheels, a lot of guys changed there own flats,so you carried one spare as we figured the chance of getting a flat on the steering was a lot less.They put discs on the steering so as they ran truer,so they said .Back then getting a Budd wheel flat changed was a bit of a hassle especially in smaller places.Alot of guys had to use those gear wrenches to change them .As hub pilots got more popular that all changed.They used to bring alot of them in with low profile radialls on the steering,standard on the rest.My 86 I told them I wanted standard all round ,we used to cap our tires an lo pro casings were useless to us and had not much resale value. Pete

There were some B42's in Canada that had Chrysler (Dodge) truck 413 V8's.A friend of mine had one,he bought it used around 63 or 64.I think it was 2 or 3 years old when he bought it. Pete

Since my other post our assistant manager told me that they figure 1 MPG less for the automatics they use a formula to figure how much time is spent pumping. Pete

I have no idea about fuel mileage on our trucks .I don't get the same truck every day,we do alot of short haul but we use the engines to blow off the loads (2 hrs) per load ,2 or 3 a day.I had one with 129000km,80000 miles and it had around 3500hrs on the engine so fuel economy in our operation is almost impossible to figure out. Pete

My employer has Eaton Auto shifts 10 speeds in all our newer Macks.We have a clutch for start up and PTO's.They work OK but off road they are't so great.We haul dry cement up to 139000# gross.They take a little getting used to.I usualy use the manual buttons up to 5 or 6,sometimes they don't want to shift in 2or3 ,go to top RPM and if you back off they slow right down and bounce around like you don't know what you are doing.It seems the older ones don't do it as much,maybe they wear in or need adjustment. Pete

My employer has new Macks pulling 132,000 gross that seem pretty good. But here in Canada they trail Western Star in sales and are losing some of their former stangle hold the mixer market to WS.Mack dealers have Volvos on their lots except in places that there were already Volvo dealers. It does'nyt look good to me. Pete