 'AtkiPete' Lynch has sent me these pictures, along with a jaunty "G'day Brian, since your recent posting on Whites, I have spotted a couple of old ones still in service. These will probably appear blue to the untrained eye." Well they'll certainly do at a pinch pete.
Once again I'm left wondering how you Aussies see around your air stacks...! Now click through here for a truck you definitely don't want to see after a heavy night... |
See what I mean? I'm feeling rather bilious just looking at that shade of green...Pete says: "also enclose a couple of their newer brothers in here as well. That refueling truck would be very tough on the eyes, especially if you had too many pies the previous evening. Cheers Pete."
And to finish here's a nice Western Star chipper trailer.....
Strangely enough, Brian, those air intake pipes don't seem to get in the way when you are driving a truck fitted with them. We have some Mack Tridents which are fitted them and you don't even notice they are there; they get hidden behind the windscreen pillars.
I know this seems a bit hard to believe, and I thought the same about them as you do until I drove them, but it is true.
Thanks Aki for keeping the world aware of "we worken pretty dan hard making endz meet down here" I spoke to the boss fella from the coal train hauler turn out and seems they have been taken over by an invester group so their attiude to pictures is yet to be found. We ahve a new guy started running a haul truck on the mine who ahs been selling Mack up here for ten years now taken a back seat so to speak. He pointed out a tug on one of the trians a Mack tri drive Titan one of two in the fleet seems it was bought from Mack having set the largest raod trian record now doing a big day work on the coal run pulling three side tippers Photos @ 9.oo if I allowed.
Hopefully Aki can post the Pic's of my new toy Aki, will be driving it home soon having found the missing brake parts. The truck has a interesting history as a tanker truck first in one of Oz's largest privite fleets may put her back into her working clober with some help from the first owner.