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Custom Rigs

Mack Pinnacle rolls as memorial in Rolling Thunder rally

A Mack Pinnacle Axle Forward model joined the proceedings at the 26th-annual Rolling Thunder rally in Washington, D.C., over Memorial Day weekend.

May 30, 2013

Business

Mack showcases new fuel-saving suspension system

In a press event that included talk of full integration of Mack products, the future of natural gas in the trucking industry and a few product announcements, Mack, most notably, unveiled a new suspension system – the Twin-Y — that it says can offer fuel savings of up to 25 percent over the current camelback […]

March 21, 2013

Business

Mack to place QRs on trucks

Mack Trucks today announced that all new units will feature a unique QR code to speed service response times and improve customer uptime. QR codes, or quick-response codes, are matrix bar codes that supply rapid retrieval of information when a tablet or other mobile device scans the code. Starting in April, Mack will install QR codes […]

March 11, 2013

Channel 19

Funny car driver at the Mack assembly plant

Bob Tasca III’s NHRA contending funny car is newly being sponsored by Mack — here check out the hauling Pinnacle tractor the race team picked up this past week at Mack’s customer center.

December 15, 2012

Channel 19

Mack takes Manhattan; Got a CB handle for sale or steal?

Mack runs commercials on the CBS building “super screen” in Times Square, NYC, and Todd gets a CB — got a handle for him?

November 26, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Accident took Mack engineer, but his legacy lives on

Hood ornaments of many sorts have become popular with owner-operators in recent years, but it’s still hard to beat one of the originals. It’s the Mack Bulldog, which turns 80 years old today. For you sticklers who wonder what’s special about today, Mack Trucks notes that a patent for the hood ornament was granted Oct. […]

October 11, 2012

Channel 19

Amid big fleet investments, operators stare down high truck prices

Something is going right for the Jacobson Companies 3PL — Mack Trucks announced yesterday that they took delivery of an order of 259 built-in-the-U.S. Mack Pinnacles, 139 daycabs and 120 sleeper trucks, and they’re hiring dedicated company drivers for runs based out of their Des Moines, Iowa, headquarters. Any owner-operators out their run freight for […]

May 27, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Megatron lives!

Mack booth at Mid-America features Megatron in full costume — the same Granite used in the 3rd of “Transformers” movie series.

March 22, 2012

Channel 19

‘Roll On, Truck Driving Girl’: Introducing trucker-songwriter Lisa Godino

Harmony, N.J.-based Lisa Godino (pictured) is a self-proclaimed “folk artist just trying to make a little noise anywhere I can,” she says. It’s not always easy, as the kind of noise she’s talking about isn’t of the Class 8 diesel variety but music, and with “50 hours a week’s worth of trucking, it’s difficult to […]

March 8, 2012

Channel 19

Visiting with Evel Knievel in N.C.

This morning I’m headed out to Brad Wike’s “Brad’s Classic Trucks” shop and home of his BPW Transport company, both of which have gotten the feature treatment on the Speed Channel’s American Trucker show, hosted by Robb Mariani. Mariani helped engineer part of the reason I’m headed to Wike’s shop: Wike’s doing a partial restoration […]

February 17, 2012

Channel 19

Human-powered Mack tractor pull

They’ve called it the “most powerful truck Mack has ever built.” Powered by the Mack MP10 engine with a top rating of 605 hp and 2,060 lb.-ft. of torque, the Titan (pictured) was “engineered for handling the toughest jobs in the most extreme conditions – oil fields, logging, heavy equipment hauling,” says company spokesman John Walsh. […]

December 6, 2011

Business

Oil & 2010 Tech

Most manufacturers have yet to extend change intervals, but oil seems to thrive in the new engines.

November 1, 2011