Memories for us old truckers

[Hank R]

Looks like a safety meeting or company picnic??

 

[JaredV]

One thing I notice about that outfit- they weren't brand snobs. They didn't seem to be afraid to run whatever was best suited to the application. That Pete is beautiful! Was it the fleet flagship?

 

[Hank R]

It was a owner/operator truck. those little Ford were great around town, my fried Tip says.

 

[Hank R]

 

[JaredV]

Looks like a chunk of the stern of a ship. I see prop shaft bearings and rudder pintles. Must have been moving it in the yard.

 

[crane operator]

 

[Truck Shop]

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[Truck Shop]

 

[mitch504]

Georgetown Steel used similar Macks to haul out the slag pots when I was in there in the early '90s. They had been there since the mill started up in '69, and are probably still operable. They aren't running the furnaces now since they are in a legal battle with the city, who rezoned the mill property for condos and declared them noncompliant with zoning.

I did see one of those snag one of our R-models, loaded to about 90,000 lbs, and pull the cab clean off, then drag the whole truck 100' or so. The guy in the big Mack never knew he had it.

 

[colson04]

I did see one of those snag one of our R-models, loaded to about 90,000 lbs, and pull the cab clean off, then drag the whole truck 100' or so. The guy in the big Mack never knew he had it.

Dang. Hope your driver wasn't in the truck when that happened.

 

[Hank R]

Loading Alfalfa Pellets Creston.

 

[mitch504]

Dang. Hope your driver wasn't in the truck when that happened.

Nope, he had stopped on the edge of the haul road (instead of 50' further up in the parking area) to get something from the vending machine.

 

[crane operator]

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You're famous! So are they going to give you a royalty on your design?

 

[Truck Shop]

You're famous! So are they going to give you a royalty on your design?

I don't think so wasn't planning on it. Although it's made 90 plus tows since built, ten were outside for
U.S. Foods and Sysco to Spokane area.

 

[Truck Shop]

Mid 50's Emeryville.

 

[Hank R]

Grand Forks 1975.

 

[Truck Shop]

That photo reminds of something years ago. In my old town Boy Scouts were have a old newspaper drive,
no one used a kingpin support. The boys stacked the newspaper to the roof and it nosed over.

 

[Truck Shop]

Eisenhower Tunnel truck, and used through out the country for tunnel duty.

 

[DB2]

Shorty. I’d like to see how the apparatus on the front was used.

 

[Truck Shop]

It just slides up to match a surface to push on.