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Old 04-07-2014, 10:24 PM   #515
willett
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Re: Trucks Are Beautiful

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Originally Posted by special-K View Post
Don't forget the Hayes trucks that started it all on '22..."The Bear". In '69 they sold out to Mack who sold to KW in '75 who shut them down. Pacific was started by former Hayes employees in '47 and sold to International in '70. They kept it till '81 when they sold it to a company in Singapore. Last Pacific was built in '91. What was left of the business (parts,etc) was sold to CCC out of Oklahoma who sold the Pacific name in '02 to an outfit back in British Columbia

Big Hayes 6x6


That thing in front of the bumper is for attaching it to the rear of another truck to make a 'road train' There's some cool photos on the intraweb of 4-500ton loads on the move with 3 or 4 trucks that size in series.
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