Mack Trucks
Mack Trucks is a famous United States truck making company, owned by Volvo. Mack Trucks, along with Ford Trucks, Kenworth, Peterbilt and others, are one of the most popular trucks on the market. The company has shipped trucks to many customers worldwide, and it has manufacturing facilities at Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia, Venezuela, South Africa and Phoenix.
The company's headquarters are located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Mack Trucks have been sold in 45 countries.
Each of Mack's Trucks carries the company's particular logo, a silver colored bulldog, on the truck's hood.
Mack Trucks timeline
- 1890: John M. Mack gets a job at Fallesen & Berry, a carriage and wagon company in Brooklyn, New York.
- 1893: Mack and his brother, Augustus F. Mack, buy the company John worked for.
- 1894: A third Mack brother, William C. Mack joins his brothers in the company's operations. The Macks try working with steam powered and electric motor cars.
- 1900s: Inspired by Orville and Wilbur Wright, Willis Carrier and Henry Ford's inventions, John Mack has a vision, dreaming about producing heavy duty trucks and engines.
- 1900: The Macks open their first bus manufacturing plant. The Mack bus, ordered by a sightseeing company, is delivered.
- 1902: The Mack Brothers Company established in New York.
- 1904: The company introduces the name Manhattan on its products.
- 1905: Allentown selected as the home of main manufacturing operations. A fourth Mack brother, Joseph, becomes a stockholder. Mack begins to make rail cars and locomotives.
- 1909: A junior model 1-1/2 ton truck is introduced.
- 1910: The Manhattan name changed; from now on, the trucks are known as Mack Trucks. Mack delivers the first motorized hook and ladder firetruck used by the city of Morristown, New Jersey. Charles Mack, a fifth Mack brother, joins the company.
- 1911: The company is sold, but it keeps operating as Mack Trucks.
- 1912: Brothers John and Joseph Mack leave.
- 1914: The Mack ABs are introduced.
- 1916: The Mack ACs are introduced. Ultimately, over 40,000 of these models are sold.
- World War I: Mack delivers over 6,000 trucks, both to the United States and Britain's military. A legend surfaces that British soldiers would call for Mack Bulldogs to be sent when facing adversity.
- 1918: Mack becomes the first manufacturer to apply air cleaners and oil filters to their trucks.
- 1919: The United States Army conducts a trans-continental project using Mack Trucks to study the need for national highway systems.
- 1920: Mack Trucks are the first with power brakes on their trucks.
- 1922: The bulldog is accepted as the company's corporate symbol.
- 1924: Jack Mack dies in a car crash in Weatherly, Pennylvania.
- 1927: Mack's BJ and BB models built.
- 1932: The Bulldog starts to travel on the hoods of Mack trucks.
- 1933: Mack Trucks helps in the building of many American structures, including the Boulder Dam.
- 1936: The Mack E series introduced. Mack Jr trucks introduced.
- 1938: Mack trucks is the first company to produce its own heavy-duty diesel engines.
- World War II: Mack trucks used by the military in various capacities. Mack trucks built many heavy-duty trucks to help the allied forces.
- 1953: The Mack B series introduced.
- 1962: The first of the COE family of trucks is introduced: The F Model all steel sleeper or non sleeper is the first of this family of models.
- 1965: Mack releases the Super Pumper System, to be used by the New York City fire department. It would help put out 2,200 fires.
- 1966: The R Series introduced, to substitute the B Series. The RW model built at Hayward, California.
- 1967: Mack Trucks becomes a part of the Signal Oil and Gas Company.
- 1969: Mack patents the cab air suspension.
