Old Mack day cab tractor

[mjeff87]

I got a real treat driving home from work today on the interstate.  Was tooling along and noticed a tractor trailer up ahead in the slow lane, belching out some good looking exhaust from twin chrome cab stacks.  I caught up with him and saw he was pulling an Amazon trailer, and then I saw the tractor.  An old vintage (but not antique) Mack day cab set up for heavy haul.  Dude was just cruising it around 65 mph, window down and elbow on the sill.  As I passed him, I hit my horn and gave him a big thumbs up and he blipped his air horns back at me.  I knew the exit he was getting off by the Amazon van he was pulling, the same one I take, so I sort of got into the KJ a bit to get there (about 8 miles down road) in time to pull off on the shoulder to get set up to grab a couple quick pics as he motored on by on the exit road.  I only had my crappy cell phone camera, but to see him rounding that curve in that awesome old iron was incredible.  Driver was an O/O, and he took a lot of pride in that old Mack you could tell right away.  That thing was IMMACULATE.  He saw me hanging out the driver side window with my cell camera, recognized me, double-clutch down shifted and absolutely lit up the chrome air horns on the cab roof as he went by me.  Totally awesome.  I gave him another big thumbs up as he passed and got another pic as he got stopped at the intersection light (he was going left to the big Amazon distribution center we have here).

 

If any of you guys here are more familiar with old tractors and can give any details on this one, feel free.  I'm not an expert, all I know is that it was semi-vintage (maybe 80's, early 90's?), and was absolutely gorgeous.  Driver was proud of it, and for good reason.  I'm guessing he was semi-local too....I can't imagine him driving it for a long haul.  It might even be a localish shop truck that pulled the van the rest of the way in after whatever Volvo POS hauling it broke down en route and got hauled in for a repair.  Either way, one beautiful rig.

 

Crappy cell phone pics.....

[Pete M]

old iron is awesome.  old iron still working its day job is just off the scale  

[DirtyComanche]

Good to see there's still owner/operators that care about there equipment.

[mjeff87]

I cross posted this over on garage journal last night too.  Couple guys over there were able to shed some light on just exactly what that beautiful machine was.  A Mack Superliner, aka "Superdog", apparently a pretty rare bird

 

atomic is right.
It's a Mack Superliner, model RW (the W inpleyed west coast model), built off same cab as a R model, the Superliner, with it's large under hood area, could be built with large V8 Mack, Cummins or CAT engines. Aluminum frames, non-mack driveline, air ride and longer wheelbase were the norm

Hard to say year, as Mack built the R series from 1972 to 1998 without changing a lot....but Superliner was about late 70's to late 80's

The entire grill is also the A/C condenser, very easy damaged, bet I've replaced a thousand, lol....

That's a rare in the wild specimen! Looks great. I'm digging the day cab

 

 

[Drahcir495]

That is a nice rig for sure!