# Where have all the Mack trucks gone?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-mack-trucks-gone/789562>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 21, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-mack-trucks-gone/789562 "2017-06-21T19:55:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-mack-trucks-gone/789562/21 "2017-06-23T16:37:04Z")

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Yeah - after seeing this thread title the other day, the first truck I saw was a Mack dirt hauler.

What made me post, tho, was the fact that Townes Van Zandt’s White Freightliner Blues has been my current earworm lately! Hopeing to infect some of youse guys!😛

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**Author:** ![dan1500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@dan1500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dan1500)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-mack-trucks-gone/789562/22 "2017-06-25T00:33:32Z")

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> [@dtilque](#):
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> So are Freightliner and Western Star. They may be owned by Daimler, but they’re made in Portland and North Carolina.

Freightliners are also made in Saltillo and Santiago Mexico

[https://www.daimler.com/company/north-america/daimler-trucks-mexico.html](https://www.daimler.com/company/north-america/daimler-trucks-mexico.html)

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-mack-trucks-gone/789562/23 "2017-06-25T06:43:25Z")

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> [@dan1500](#):
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> Freightliners are also made in Saltillo and Santiago Mexico
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> [https://www.daimler.com/company/north-america/daimler-trucks-mexico.html](https://www.daimler.com/company/north-america/daimler-trucks-mexico.html)

Yeah well, the US is not the only market for semitrucks. I understand they buy them in Mexico and Central America, too.

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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-mack-trucks-gone/789562/24 "2017-06-25T16:28:33Z")

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> [@boytyperanma](#):
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> To me most Mack trucks aren’t tractor trailers. A majority of Mack trucks I see are Class B’s. Dump trucks, Garbage trucks, stake beds etc. Styles of trucks that see less time on the highway.

Yep. We call them tandems. As in two rear axles. “I need a tandem load of gravel” About 8-10 yards, depending on the work site and what pass it has to be hauled over.

Plenty of Mac tandems in Colorado mountains.

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**Author:** ![dan1500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@dan1500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dan1500)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-mack-trucks-gone/789562/25 "2017-06-26T00:10:30Z")

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> [@dtilque](#):
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> Yeah well, the US is not the only market for semitrucks. I understand they buy them in Mexico and Central America, too.

They do buy trucks there, although most are used trucks from the U.S. Most of the new trucks built in Mexico are shipped to the U.S. to be sold.

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