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Great new video showcasing Load One.
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Nice truck.
Nice video.
I cut my theeth on R Model Mack’s..
Growing up in the shop, prior to computers, my Friday nite date nite was spent at various dealerships looking at micro fisch films and paper build sheets of each truck.
I’m thinking how far we’ve gone.
Also, we’ve returned to integrated drivetrains, engine/trans/rears all by OEM. A feature we enjoyed on those old Mack’s.,
Like we’ve gone full circle.
Nice video.
I cut my theeth on R Model Mack’s..
Growing up in the shop, prior to computers, my Friday nite date nite was spent at various dealerships looking at micro fisch films and paper build sheets of each truck.
I’m thinking how far we’ve gone.
Also, we’ve returned to integrated drivetrains, engine/trans/rears all by OEM. A feature we enjoyed on those old Mack’s.,
Like we’ve gone full circle.
Same here except I had to pay my dues in several B Models first.
The Golden Bulldog (purebred) up front with its nose in the air.
Looking at the back of the dog, did you have to tolerate “Its one A-Hole looking at another “ comments ?
Or, when I dressed one up “ Puttin chrome on a Mack is like puttin perfume on a pig “.
Or, when I dressed one up “ Puttin chrome on a Mack is like puttin perfume on a pig “.
Memories.....
Favorite truck to ever drive was a RS700L with an air shift 4x4 .I think they called it a 12 speed.
I just remember it was so smooth and had 4 reverses.
Favorite truck to ever drive was a RS700L with an air shift 4x4 .I think they called it a 12 speed.
I just remember it was so smooth and had 4 reverses.
how far the trucks have come, my 1st truck was UD1800, did the job, than as I learned what I wanted each truck was a little better than the last one. that why it is important to read, study, research , go to truck show each year.
good job.
good job.
Started on a B with a quadraplex. No power steering no air ride seats. Seats were bolted to the floor. Stack of springs 16” thick. The wing window would break your pinky finger it was that close to the steering wheel. Didn’t have enough power to pull a sick whre off a poop pot. I’m that old lol.
Cold and drafty in the winter and hot in the summer. I used sticks to keep the wing window propped open. Never drove a quadraplex but plenty of duplexes and triplexes in Bs, Fs, Rs and one U model. Eventually I got into an F model with a 5 speed, a whopping 237 HP Maxidyne, and power steering.
That Maxidyne was so advanced technically that people couldn’t understand it.
I was hauling gas in Chicago and we bought a U model as it was priced so much less than a R Model.
I loved that sidecar.
It’s rare to talk to another U model driver.
Moot, what was your U model experience like ?
The other drivers avoided it like a plague. I guess it wasn’t macho.
We were Teamsters, so I guess it all paid the same.
I was hauling gas in Chicago and we bought a U model as it was priced so much less than a R Model.
I loved that sidecar.
It’s rare to talk to another U model driver.
Moot, what was your U model experience like ?
The other drivers avoided it like a plague. I guess it wasn’t macho.
We were Teamsters, so I guess it all paid the same.
Moot, hearing you have so much Mack experience, and often have a similar thought process as me, I wonder if the Mack ride of old van be linked to CTE ?
I guess we kinda hijacked the Load One/Freightliner thread.
5th gear provided, 35 mph to the 60s.
Yeah, you could lug the snot out those, 1200 -2100 rpm. What was amazing was the speed range
5th gear provided, 35 mph to the 60s.
My U model experience is limited. The one U this family owned company had was a tandem tractor stretched and a dump body added. I drove it to the dump and scrap yard a few times and spent one day farmed out to a ready mix company hauling sand from pit to plant. I didn't like the narrow cab only because the "passenger side" mirror was on a long mount and vibrated like crazy. Also I believe the doghouse intruded further into the cab than on an R.
Maybe but I was often told I was born this way.
