BAD DOG Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Tuesday afternoon we took deivery of the 1st of 3 new Pinnacles the boss just puchased. He's been buying Kw's and a couple of Cat trucks recently. I was surprised to see him get Macks again. He asked what I thought of it and I told him it was'nt a Superliner, but at least it's a mack. It's a nice little day cab 3/8" single frame MP8 505 HP 18 spd eaton rears on hendrickson air ride. It should do what we want it ti do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Tuesday afternoon we took deivery of the 1st of 3 new Pinnacles the boss just puchased. He's been buying Kw's and a couple of Cat trucks recently. I was surprised to see him get Macks again. He asked what I thought of it and I told him it was'nt a Superliner, but at least it's a mack. It's a nice little day cab 3/8" single frame MP8 505 HP 18 spd eaton rears on hendrickson air ride. It should do what we want it ti do.ahrite good deal,,,my company was buying all kenworths,,,now were moving downwards,,and winding up with mostly volva,,,in reno,,,rest of the country gets macks,KW IH,and freightliners,,,were stuck with these ugly piles a shit,,,much rather be in pinnacle.only thing i dont like about new macks,,,the dashboards are really boring,,,and thats the part your always looking at,,,wake up mack designers lol..bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucerne tractor Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 I'll tell yah what. Texas sure loves the new Macks, Most of the oil field service yards are loaded with new Macks, Kenworth T800 is popular but it almost looks like Mack is taking over. The new Mack Pinnacle CU? square nose with midroof sleeper and twin stacks is an eye catcher. I know the cabs and sleepers are comfortable because they are the same as mine. I might be looking into a new one some day soon. The Rawhide series is sweet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAD DOG Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 :SMOKIE-RT:Finally got to give the new pinnacle a real test for the whole day yesterday. I drove it a couple times before for half a day pulling a 4 axle tanker hauling tar grossed out at about 130 something thousand lbs. I thought it was one of the biggest pigs I ever seen, really gutless. we had it back to the dealer for the last week to have the wetline installed for our dump trailers, and get a driveline vibration looked at and an electronic malfunction code wiped, they must have changed some software in it. Difference between night and day. I pulled a dump trailer yesterday and ran with one of our KWs with an ISX 550 Cummins. WE were pulling 3 axle dumps about 115,000 lbs gross. I had no problem keeping up with him and fuel milage was about the same. I was impressed it does a really good job. I still wouldn't trade my E9 powered Superliner for 10 of them, but I wouldn't trade it for anything any way. So I would have to say though the pinnacle is a good value for the price the boss got it for. He just took one tractor for now, but bought 2 Grannite tri axle dump trucks though, we got 2 cats in the summer and we don't like them, they are in the shop as much as we work them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatcity Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Glad they got it right.That driveline vibration- air ride control adjustment? Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAD DOG Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 Glad they got it right.That driveline vibration- air ride control adjustment? Yes thats what they found it to be too high. They ordered some shocks in for it. Its much better now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb502 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 :SMOKIE-RT:Finally got to give the new pinnacle a real test for the whole day yesterday. I drove it a couple times before for half a day pulling a 4 axle tanker hauling tar grossed out at about 130 something thousand lbs. I thought it was one of the biggest pigs I ever seen, really gutless. we had it back to the dealer for the last week to have the wetline installed for our dump trailers, and get a driveline vibration looked at and an electronic malfunction code wiped, they must have changed some software in it. Difference between night and day. I pulled a dump trailer yesterday and ran with one of our KWs with an ISX 550 Cummins. WE were pulling 3 axle dumps about 115,000 lbs gross. I had no problem keeping up with him and fuel milage was about the same. I was impressed it does a really good job. I still wouldn't trade my E9 powered Superliner for 10 of them, but I wouldn't trade it for anything any way. So I would have to say though the pinnacle is a good value for the price the boss got it for. He just took one tractor for now, but bought 2 Grannite tri axle dump trucks though, we got 2 cats in the summer and we don't like them, they are in the shop as much as we work them.You really want to tell the boss what makes it worth buying more of those trucks, tell him that 13 liter ran right with the 15 liter cummins, if I had to bet you will probably get better fuel mileage than the Cummins after Break in and as for the Cat's, Why? just why? the Acert engines have been crap since they came out and you go buy an international with a cat badge and an Acert engine, WHY? 1 Quote "Any Society that would give up a little LIBERTY to gain a little SECURITY will Deserve Neither and LOSE BOTH" -Benjamin Franklin"If your gonna be STUPID, you gotta be TOUGH" "You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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