Mack Trucks’ Weapons of Mass Construction take Sydney by storm

 Today the company is focussing on its 80 biggest construction customers, and is giving them the opportunity to try its “new breed” Granite, Trident and Metro Liner and Super Liner trucks on Olympic Park roads.

On both days, 3 trucks with bulk aluminium bodies, were endlessly loaded with sand – by Volvo Construction Equipment employees operating a Volvo wheel loader and an excavator – driven around the air conditioned Dome exhibition centre at the Showgrounds, and unloaded on another part of the floor for the cycle to be repeated.
Mack imported 600t of sand specially for the event and specially selected customers and Mack Truck driver trainers performed.
The 12-strong media throng drove a water cart and a ready mixed concrete truck around a modestly testing obstacle course aimed at showing us the difficulty of negotiating obstacles on a typical construction site. Prizes were awarded to those who knocked over the least number of witch’s hats and who could back most accurately. Your scribe was not among them.
Today, I’m told, the witch’s hats will be much closer together and the judging much more rigourous as customers seek to excel.
Mack says it is the only truck maker in Australia to offer 4 models for the construction industry customised to operator requirements at its Brisbane assembly plant.
While the company is looking at hybrid and biofuel engines for its trucks, it has recently produced compressed natural gas powered engines, for Granite trucks operated by Boral as concrete agitators. They were locally developed and engineered by Boral.