13 Facts About Mack Trucks

1.

Mack Trucks, Inc, is an American truck manufacturing company and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,569
2.

Mack Trucks is a subsidiary of AB Volvo, which purchased Mack along with its then parent company Renault Vehicules Industriels in 2000.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,570
3.

Mack Trucks products are produced in Lower Macungie, Pennsylvania, and Salem, Virginia, with all powertrain products produced in its Hagerstown, Maryland plant.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,571
4.

Mack Trucks maintains additional assembly plants in Pennsylvania, Australia, and Venezuela.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,572
5.

Mack Trucks once maintained plants in Hayward, California and Oakville, Ontario, though both of these have been closed.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,573
6.

Mack Trucks is one of the top producers in the vocational and on-road vehicle market, class 8 through class 13.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,574
7.

Mack Trucks started to produce the Mack Trucks R series in 1966 for highway use, and the RD, DM, and all wheel drive RM and DMM models for construction use.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,575
8.

Mack Trucks started making diesels in 1938, in 1957 the END and turbocharged ENDT 673 diesel were introduced.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,576
9.

Mack Trucks produced railroad cars and locomotives between 1905 and 1930.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,577
10.

Mack developed a competing design, when the M39 was standardized Mack built a relatively small number of M51 dump trucks.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,578
11.

Mack Trucks built 392 M123s, used with a lowboy trailer to recover and transport tanks, and all 552 M125s, between 1955 and 1957.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,579
12.

Mack Trucks believes he must seek out a person named "Mack" as it the only word he is able to recall.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,580
13.

Mack Trucks later realizes the significant of "Mack" is in fact his recollection of his vehicle being intentionally hit by a Mack truck.

FactSnippet No. 1,279,581