HeavyGunner

Sounds like the same problem NAPA had with their electrical parts about 8 years ago. I know more than business owner who quit buying from them because their electrical stuff was absolute junk. I quit buying from them for that reason as well. I put 6 Napa Gold lifetime warranty starters in one pickup in 7 months. One of them wouldn’t even work right out of the box when it was installed. Napa store told me they were not going to honor the lifetime warranty any longer. I made some calls and they changed their minds on not honoring the warranty. Did I mention during all of this they blamed the pickup? I took it to a mechanic and spent $200 for him tell me nothing is wrong with the pickup. Never been back to NAPA after that fiasco. 

Montana is way more laid back about it. People are pulling lots of different trailers behind semis with no cdl licensed as rv’s. 

Where or who would service this truck? Does it use thing like bearings and suck that regular vehicles use or is everything proprietary to Tesla?  

1 hour ago, 1977vega said:

That’s the good thing about the weekends, scales are closed for the most part. How about roadside stops? The lines get very blurry when it comes to historic plates and being over GVW for combinations. Like I’ve said before, I’d like to pick a B up to pull my trailer to the track, as I live about 20 miles for Atco raceway. About a 70-80 mile ride to hit Cecil or Maple Grove, but as you said, crossing state lines

So license it as an rv.  If your trailer doesn’t have living quarters in it put a cot in there and I’d think you’d be covered. 

That is a neat truck, I’d like to take it for a spin. 

Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you’ll get through this hard time. It’s no fun when the rain storm settles in your world but on the bright side this will make you really appreciate when things are going well. Hope things get better soon, merry Christmas. 

That was a really cool build video KS.  The size of that boom and counterweight is amazing. Any idea what any of the parts weigh?

Are you sure 3.50’s wouldn’t be way too tall for a small diesel with a 2 speed trans?  I am not a mechanic but that sounds like a real big jump t me. I’m curious what you find out. Keep us posted on your progress. Very cool bus. 

Looks really sharp. So is my understanding correct that this will be a limited edition truck available to the public?

yep

That’s the same error I get 95% of the time I try I upload a pic. 

That is a beaut for sure, thanks for sharing. 

9 hours ago, j hancock said:

That is a Mack W-71 built between 1953-1958.

So was that model the start of the end for H models?  

What model is that blue and white cab over? It appears to be the missing link between the H model and G model to me. 

On 11/30/2019 at 5:42 PM, Jamaican Bulldog said:

Thats amazing! Have you considered casting and selling that? there are few if any roll off kits this hobby

 

Scan it and 3D print it. 

Very cool, understanding that the gifts are not actually free I think it’s a really nice gesture from WS to show a little thanks to a customer while marketing their product. 

1 hour ago, alex g said:

My wife had a custom mailbox made for my birthday. It's a one off but if anyone is interested the guys website is Sault Built Fabrication. She sent him pics of my R model he built it from that. My northern corespondent Snow Dog is gonna post pics later today for me since of my technical difficulties. 

Are you going to paint it to match your R?

For the longest time I could take a picture with my iPhone and post it on here. Now it’s very finicky and gives me errors when I try most of the time so I’ve pretty much given up posting pics on here. I’m not interested in signing up for a 3rd party host just to post on here. Now back to all those wonderful Mack collectibles. Speaking of which I found a Mack tach and speedo in my new to me shop while cleaning it. 

Glad I’m not the only one struggling to post pictures. 

On 11/26/2019 at 7:56 AM, Bullheaded said:

We have mostly all these no name carriers up here. And they all have funny head dress. Not being racist. Just stating obvious facts.

 

Had a Canadian grain hauler refer to the mass influx of middle eastern and Indian drivers as the New Canadians. 

6 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

OOOOH Dear Teamster Grrl!! I may not have gotten an A in economics, but I got an A+ in Psychology. You my dearie are, as I previously Identified you, a pathological antagonist. I agreed with you and you disagreed with my agreeability and corrected me by repeating what I told you in the first place which already agreed with what you previously said as though you yourself authored it.   

 

Teamsterr Girl said "Back during the recession when a high percentage of home sales were foreclosures auctions did in fact set the market."  "

Mack Technician said "houses sold on the courthouse steps set the value of all local real estate"

Teamsterr Girl said "auctions give the best public measure of a trucks worth, which tends to be 10-20% of new price for a 10 or more year old truck."

Mack Technician said "Auctions set the value of all used trucks."

Teamsterr Girl then said "Sorry Mack Tech, you aren't doin' that well at economics."

 

When you COULD have said...…. "Well, I'm glad my schooling hasn't fallen COMPLETELY upon deaf ears. Thank you for stepping up to the higher calling of sound reason Mack Tech."

 

Which would still be obnoxious, but...…. would then mean you'd have had to, even sarcastically, agree to my statement......which is physiologically impossible for you. You cannot because you see antagonism as your greatest form of intellectual self-expression...…meanwhile driving the world immediately surrounding you insane and the Benevolent League of BMT Patriarchs (AKA- Cool old truckers with awesome toys) to want to stone you in the town square.

 

Your time for transformation to a social-able, positive, non-antagonistic, contributor is ticking away. You are, as you yourself said, "an old fart" and farts make but a ~poof~ and gone. Change your ways. A day's coming, I hope it doesn't, when you'll run out of ideas for new Monikers and have to use idiotic names like "Ol'Minnesota Farts" or "Grandma Cranky's CH ". This might be falling on deaf ears, but I want to be known as the person who "tried".       

 

 

Well said Mack Tech, I wish I was well spoken as you but I am not so I blocked her. 😝

Sharp looking truck

My folks added trucks to their business for a few years.  Paid the drivers 1/3 of what the truck grossed and driver after driver would work a year or so then quit and go buy their own truck to make the big bucks only to go broke because of the reasons you listed above. They couldn’t see that my folks had a 30+ year profitable company that they added trucks to which made it a lot easier to absorb maintenance and repair costs. 

38 minutes ago, JoeH said:

I fail to see where in this thread he needed a smackdown.

Go search gearheadgrrrl or teamstergrrrl in bmt. She has continually harassed people on here for using older trucks, pickups and anything bigger than her lawn tractor. Yes she has been much much quieter this past year or so but just wait. This latest reincarnation will get mouthy and obnoxious again, Barry will ban that username and she'll come back and do it again. Oh and did I mention if you don’t agree with her you’ll get called everything but human by her. Yes we have little to no patience for her but there’s lots of reasons why. Now back to the thread. 

2 hours ago, TS7 said:

I know what you mean Heavy Gunner, I thought Barry fixed that. 

Nope.