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The Mack Granite is a series of heavy duty and severe service trucks built by Mack Trucks.It has a long, low-profile hood and a high-visibility cab. Designed as straight trucks for local construction, waste removal, and other vocational jobs, it is also available as a semi-tractor.
Concrete pumps have a multi-stage folding boom pivoted near the center of the truck and a hopper at the rear to load the pump. The pump itself is the load and the truck always operates at maximum weight. In transit the boom is folded front to rear. In use the pump uses outriggers and the boom unfolds forward over the cab or to either side.
The cab is mounted very low and forward, allowing a step up from the ground to the cab floor of only 17 inches (43 cm). It has a stand-up right-side (curb) driving position. Total loaded weight can be up to 72,000 pounds (33,000 kg). Advanced electronics are used for engine, chassis, and body controls, as well as maintenance. The trucks have ...
The Mack MC/MR series, also known as the "Cruise-Hauler", is a cabover truck first introduced in 1978. [1] It is of a distinct "set back front axle" design (first seen on the Mack FM), with the driver compartment mounted ahead of the front axle and with a large, flat, divided windscreen covering almost half of the truck's frontal aspect.
1973 Ford L600 box truck Ford L9000 Fire tank truck 1981 Ford LTS 9000 concrete mixer. For 1970, the L-series was introduced in four size ranges and two hood lengths and grille styles, and with single or tandem (denoted by the "T" in the model designation) rear axles. Powertrains included a wide range of gasoline and diesel engines, based on GVWR.
Tatra 815-6 Force (ultra-heavy fire-fighting offroad truck) There is wide variety of superstructures built on Tatra T815 ranging from tipper S1 and S3 trucks, flatbed truck, tanker, drilling platform (used notably in Australia and Russia), autocrane, excavator, concrete mixer, semitrailer tractor and many other. Military Tatra 815 Armax
The successor to the 1940-1956 Mack L series, [2] the B-series was a line of heavy conventional-cab trucks. Adopting a more streamlined appearance over its predecessor, the B-series was designed with a sloped windshield and larger, rounded fenders [ 1 ] The model line was sold in multiple configurations, including tractors and straight/rigid ...
Trucks weigh 9,100 to 14,000 kilograms (20,000 to 30,000 lb), and can carry roughly 20,000 kilograms (40,000 lb) of concrete although many varying sizes of mixer truck are currently in use. The most common truck capacity is 10 cubic yards (7.6 m 3). Most concrete mixers in the UK are limited to a speed of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph).