Posted by Determined on February 05, 2019 at 07:05:04 from (216.130.212.201):
In Reply to: Mack trucks posted by SVcummins on February 04, 2019 at 21:38:35:
Out of curiosity I did a quick search to find out about the trucks in the photos you posted.
Found the following on Truckersnews;
Eleven monster Macks equipped with 600 hp diesel engines, 5-foot-tall tires and 5,500-gallon fuel tanks carried the personnel and equipment to inside the Arctic Circle to construct the DEW Line defense project in 1956.
The beastly bulldogs were shipped by rail from Allentown, Pennsylvania to Seattle. From there they were loaded on barges and taken to Valdez, Alaska. They had conventional highway travel and then 500 miles over wilderness trails cut by bulldozers. Then came 500 miles over the frozen Arctic Ocean.
Temperatures were as low as -65 degrees as truckers drove in 12-hour shifts and then slept, ate and relaxed in 65-foot-long trailers.
The Dew Line was a series of radar stations meant to warn North America of potential attack from bombers of the former U.S.S.R. during the Cold War.
There is also a video showing these trucks in action, yes they get stuck too.
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