Make and year of this truck
Discussion in 'Truckers' Photo Shack | Art Gallery' started by DannyB, Nov 26, 2023.
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I can't remember what else I said when I published the original photo, but at the risk of repeating myself, I will recount the time when I was looking for work in Sydney and, spotting a driver taking a break in an Oskosh and semi I got into conversation with him.
He was an owner driver about to start his regular run to Melbourne, almost 900 km (550 miles) to the south. He offered me a job on the spot but I declined. A cramped, cold, uncomfortable cab was not exactly on my wish list and I had previously been driving roadtrains with a B61 Mack, so you can see how bad this truck appeared to me. -
I believe the B61 was nicknamed “King of the Road”.
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But you can see that if that is the way I thought about 900kms in the dark in a space no bigger than my car, rearward sloping screen at the bottom and little space left between it and my nose, how bad it must have been. I gave up searching in Sydney and rode the rails north to the tropics of N. Queensland where I had a variety of jobs and when I returned to Sydney, became a taxi driver.
BTW, some of those Australian RHD Macks found their way to England where we were mightily impressed, to join some LHD direct imports and those definitely had 'King of the Road' emblazoned across the front bumper.Rideandrepair and Sons Hero Thank this. -
Were these like some of the newer Macks, catch an ##* whippin before you catch 10th gear?
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My Mack, Columbus, MS to LA/Frisco weekly, 1/57 to 5/58. Steady dependable little hoss....
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