Peterbuilt or International?

[Mackman]

Splitshifter these non-mack guys will never understand.

[Graymist]

Maybe you should lose the sarcasm and just understand that diehard Mack truck fans are very loyal to their favorite brand.

It is impossible to put this entirely into "objective" terms due to the fact that it is a matter of personal preference.

All brands of trucks have their good and bad points.

Mack has offered the Maxidyne engine, with higher torque over a broader RPM range than conventional diesel engines.

Mack is the only truck manufacturer to produce a triple countershaft transmission, other transmissions have only 2 countershafts

Mack trucks has produced it's line of double reduction rear axles for over 60 years and they have a reputation for being the most durable and trouble free rear ends when used in the abusive environments of construction, heavy haul, and refuse hauling.

The Mack camelback rear suspension is the best there is for dump truck, heavy haul, and refuse hauling.

What is your favorite brand of truck?

Why is it your favorite?

Please enlighten us.


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Well, atleast the sarcasm achieved its objective, which was to try and make you eschew your hitherto subjective rhetoric, and state some hard facts for a welcome change.

As to my favourite truck, I have none....I drive what is assigned to me by my employer. I am of the opinion that my employer knows much more about trucks than I do ( or possibly ever will ), and also knows what type of truck is suitable for the task at hand. As it so happens, my employer's trucks are all late model flat-top 18-speed T800s and VN430s, spec'd for heavy hauling. I haul pneumatic bulkers in a super-B configuration. Both types of trucks are also driven off-road, i.e in the bush, during the winter freeze. Driving is more of a challenge in the spring thaw, when they have to negotiate foot-deep cloying mud, and that's where the true mettle of a truck gets tested. My employer had a fleet of Macks, which they're trying desperately to get rid of, as they weren't equal to the task, and kept breaking down. There are a whole bunch of those Macks lying around unused, but my employer doesn't want any of its drivers in those trucks.

Prior to this, I drove concrete mixer trucks ( with tandem steering body-jobs, and tractor trailers ), which were primarily Internationals, and some Western Stars. There too, coincidentally enough, the company that I worked for had decommissioned its fleet of Macks.

[Kranky]

My employer had a fleet of Macks, which they're trying desperately to get rid of, as they weren't equal to the task, and kept breaking down. There are a whole bunch of those Macks lying around unused, but my employer doesn't want any of its drivers in those trucks.

All I can say is that those Macks must have been spec'ed incorrectly in some way for the job they were doing.

[Graymist]

My employer had a fleet of Macks, which they're trying desperately to get rid of, as they weren't equal to the task, and kept breaking down. There are a whole bunch of those Macks lying around unused, but my employer doesn't want any of its drivers in those trucks.

All I can say is that those Macks must have been spec'ed incorrectly in some way for the job they were doing.

Quite improbable, my friend. Both companies in question, have been in business for well over 75 years, so they know a thing or two about trucks and how to spec them out. Where I live, is oil-country....which, by extension, translates to trucking country. Also, the trucks in use currently, have pretty much the same specs as those other ones.

[Kranky]

My employer had a fleet of Macks, which they're trying desperately to get rid of, as they weren't equal to the task, and kept breaking down. There are a whole bunch of those Macks lying around unused, but my employer doesn't want any of its drivers in those trucks.

All I can say is that those Macks must have been spec'ed incorrectly in some way for the job they were doing.

Quite improbable, my friend. Both companies in question, have been in business for well over 75 years, so they know a thing or two about trucks and how to spec them out. Where I live, is oil-country....which, by extension, translates to trucking country. Also, the trucks in use currently, have pretty much the same specs as those other ones.

There has to be a reason, but that reason damn sure ain't that they have a Bulldog on the hood.

In between "pretty much the same specs", and "exactly the same specs" there could be something that has made the Macks problematic in that application.

[Mackmechanic]

My employer had a fleet of Macks, which they're trying desperately to get rid of, as they weren't equal to the task, and kept breaking down. There are a whole bunch of those Macks lying around unused, but my employer doesn't want any of its drivers in those trucks.

All I can say is that those Macks must have been spec'ed incorrectly in some way for the job they were doing.

Quite improbable, my friend. Both companies in question, have been in business for well over 75 years, so they know a thing or two about trucks and how to spec them out. Where I live, is oil-country....which, by extension, translates to trucking country. Also, the trucks in use currently, have pretty much the same specs as those other ones.

This is also oil country, and almost every fleet around here runs macks

I know of only one company that has makcs that hates them.... they are sending them to auction in odessa texas and buying 10 new petes


Their problem was all the trucks were spec'ed incorrectly and not taken care of.


1 truck has broken the bellhousing 3 times :?