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Mack’s new single-unit ClearTech One EATS system reduces weight, adds frame space

Mack Trucks has launched the ClearTech One exhaust aftertreatment system (EATS), an update to its existing ClearTech solution that cuts 17 pounds from the weight and removes 11 inches of frame space to create easier access for body upfit options. The new system, announced at the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis, compresses into one unit […]

March 4, 2016

Construction Equipment

Mack adds 13- and 14-speed low-speed reduction mDRIVE HD options for MP series engines

Mack has added two versions of its mDRIVE HD automated manual transmission (AMT) to offer low-speed reduction gear options for MP series engines, adding versatility to the Pinnacle, Granite and Titan trucks. Announced Wednewsday at the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis, the two versions include a 13-speed option designed for easier starting on steep grades […]

March 3, 2016

Technology

Mack Trucks expands telematics program with GuardDog services support

Last year Mack Trucks announced the launch of a telematics program, GuardDog Connect. This year at World of Concrete, the company announced that the service is now available and standard in all Mack TerraPro cabover models equipped with a Mack MP engine. But more importantly it announced the first four dealers that have been trained and certified in […]

February 3, 2016

Construction Equipment

Loader uprights dump truck, gravity quickly ruins everything

As we’ve seen before, rural roads in tropical climates are very unforgiving when it comes to flopping a piece of heavy equipment back onto its wheels. This loader is able to quickly upright a flipped Mack truck, but once the tires hit the pavement, gravity takes over in full effect. Hope they brought a machete. […]

June 12, 2015

Construction Equipment

FIRST DRIVE: A bit of wheel time with Mack’s mDrive HD, the AMT built for construction

Mack announced at the World of Concrete Show in February that it was launching a new, “ruggedized” version of its mDrive automated manual transmission (AMT). Thursday, at the company’s ancestral home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, journalists were given the opportunity to drive the new mDrive HD on various durability courses at the Mack Customer Center—a combined museum […]

May 1, 2015

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: Trucks of every trim, tint and trade throng World of Concrete 2015

[imagebrowser id=191] One of the cool things about World of Concrete each year is that there’s never a shortage of interesting trucks to see. Pickups, service trucks, haulers, pump trucks, mixers—you name it, it’s there and in just about every paint job you can think of. The gallery above contains just about every truck we […]

February 5, 2015

Construction Equipment

Mack unveils mDrive HD, a lightweight automated manual transmission built for construction

[imagebrowser id=184] Mack has announced a “hardened,” yet still lightweight version of its mDrive automated manual transmission designed specifically for the rigors and varied terrains of construction work. During a press event at the World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas Tuesday, Mack took the wraps off the mDrive HD. Stephen Roy, Mack’s president […]

February 3, 2015

Construction Equipment

Volvo and Mack open support center aimed at preventing truck downtime before it happens

Downtime is a killer for fleets with very real bottom line consequences. Customer support specialists for Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America calculate that a commerical vehicle downtime event today can cost a fleet as much as $2,000 a day per event. Obviously, mitigating or even avoiding costly downtime events is a high priority […]

December 10, 2014

Dealers

Case names Diamond Dealer winners; Liebherr continues restructuring; Bobcat, Terex add dealers in this week’s Dealer News Roundup

Welcome to the Dealer News Roundup, your one-stop shop for all the moves going on inside the heavy equipment distributor industry. This week’s edition includes expansions from several major manufacturers. Case names Diamond Dealer award winners Case Construction Equipment has recognized 13 dealers for excellence in sales and support as the 2014 Diamond Dealer recipients. […]

October 3, 2014

Technology

Mack partners with Telogis to launch scalable telematics package for truck fleets

Mack announced a major expansion package to its GuardDog Connect fleet telematics system today. The company’s new Mack Fleet Management Services is a suite of software and technology offerings made possible by an initial partnership with Telogis. The new system, which features three distinct and highly configurable application packages, builds off of Mack’s existing GuardDog […]

September 29, 2014

Construction Equipment

REVIEW: Mack Titan is a beast of a truck with tremendous handling

If you went into a lab and boiled down everything Mack trucks has learned and experienced over the past 114 years to its purest essence—every battlefield Macks have fought on, every jobsite, every bridge, dam and highway they’ve helped build, you’d probably come away with a truck very close to the 2014 Mack Titan. […]

May 1, 2014

Construction Equipment

Burglars drive away with excavator, truck and trailer in quick construction equipment heist

It’s not quite a scene out of Ocean’s Eleven, but the burglars who recently drove away with an excavator, truck and trailer worth $250,000 were pretty bold to do it all during the evening—and in one moment, in sight of the police. According to a report from WABC TV in New York City, the thieves arrived […]

April 2, 2014