Athearn Mack B Tractors: Were They Around in 1971?

[randgust]

I'll do better than that, I checked the net and here's a video.  I think this is the same outfit - certainly the truck color scheme is the same.

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I wonder if anybody, in any scale, has ever done that as a scene.    It wouldn't have to move, you could have it hung up on wires, stuck, blocking an intersection...wow, the potential there!

[Wlal13again]

My Father drove a B Model in 1970 pulling a fuel oil tanker.. and as late as 1991 Alpo pet foods in Allentown PA was using a B to move trailers from one warehouse to another..Macks don't lie about their age..they brag about it..As a Mack certified mechanic in the 90`s most of what we saw was 10 to 20 year old trucks..if you don't want to work on old stuff, don't work for Mack..

[randgust]

Found my old pictures, but they are undated.

It was Dziuba Building Movers in Millertown, PA.   They have shots of the bulding they moved in our town on the website.

One shot on their website in Watertown, NY shows the Mack tractors pretty clearly.    There are lots of shots of their rigs, houses, etc.

http://www.dbmovers.com/slides.htm

[daniel_leavitt2000]

I always wondered how the post Volvo Granites compaired to the previous R and B trucks. I think the most reliable trucks you could get were the R/B 800 series with the steel hood. Those things mever break. A few DPW crews around here use ones that are pushing 45 years.

My Father drove a B Model in 1970 pulling a fuel oil tanker.. and as late as 1991 Alpo pet foods in Allentown PA was using a B to move trailers from one warehouse to another..Macks don't lie about their age..they brag about it..As a Mack certified mechanic in the 90`s most of what we saw was 10 to 20 year old trucks..if you don't want to work on old stuff, don't work for Mack..

[Wlal13again]

I don't think there is much of a comparison Daniel, While I still say the Granite and Pinnacle are good products, the R`s U`s DM`s and Superliners are so tough, even in the 90`s when the CH came out you could see things were lighter and thinner, to save fuel and such..The Steel hooded DM`s just look mean..I guess thats why thousands of R`s and such still ply the roads everyday..just too tough to die..

[strummer]

When I first moved to the Oregon Coast in the mid 70's, my next door neighbor had a 10-wheeled B-series dump truck. It was equipped with a turbo (or something), so when he revved the engine, you could hear a powerful-sounding whine over the exhaust noise. Very impressive.

He used it 'till the very early 80's, then switched over to the White "Western Star" type. I believe he's stayed with that brand ever since...

Mark in Oregon