Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Mack and Trout

 Interesting exports from Halifax in recent weeks include: some Trout River live bottom trailers. I have never seen a trailer with six axles before. Even with one axle air lifted they must be beasts to turn.

A nice Kenworth hauled the trailers to Halfax.

Trout River Industries is based in Coleman, Prince Edward Island.

A Freightliner from White City, Saskatchewan (near Regina) made the long trip to Halifax with a very rough looking load.

It is hard to believe that it would be worth hauling a very beat up Mack Model R all the way here and then export it to some third world country. Produced from 1966 to 2005, it was the longest production run of any North American truck.(Some were also built in Australia and Iran.) So this beast must be closing on twenty years of age or more, but apparenely still runs and has some value - perhaps as a rolling parts pile.

I hope the driver has a backhaul it's a long trip home.

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