Mack Titan with Smith built Belly Dumper Roadtrain It’s hot here! Damn hot! The humidity is stifling and the dust a greyish black. But it’s also home to three Cummins powered Mack Titans that haul 160-tonne payloads of processed manganese in an innovative trailer combination built by J Smith and Sons; Howard Shanks joined Kerren Smith for…
Becoming a FIFO road train driver with an old Mack Titan Salaries for FIFO road train drivers are usually well into the six- figures and don’t require tertiary qualifications. Hence, it’s no surprise there is a long list of workers signing up to get behind the wheel of a road train and earn big money.…
King Bullbar protects Mack SuperLiner with mDrive HD option Words and photography Howard Shanks (Images supplied by Kingbars – noted) Slingo Earthmoving have had Mack trucks working in their operation in one form or another for over 50 years and recently taken delivery of a new 685 horsepower Super-Liner coupled to an mDrive transmission with…