The new Medium truck for Canada - 8x8 Mack

[rob love]

Nice looking truck. It is also nice to see it go to a North American manufacture and design, as opposed to a European or Eastern bloc model. I believe Tatra had a horse or two in the race. Not to belittle Tatra, as I am sure they are fine trucks over on the other side of the world where they belong, but they are not native to here.

So now the medium truck has gone from 2-1/2 ton to 5 ton. What will the load capacity of the HLVW replacement program going to be, or is that what the option for 600 more trucks is for.

[Grant Bowker]

Even scarier than Rob's comment on "Medium" having grown from 2-1/2 to 5 tons, the linked article gives a load capacity of 9500 kg (over 10 short tons). I hope they aren't asking the soldiers to shoulder 4 times the load as well.

[maple_leaf_eh]

The MSVS SMP is 10m long, 2.6m wide and 3.5m tall. That is 32 feet long, 8.5 feet wide, 11 1/2 feet tall. By comparison, the HLVW 9m long x 2.5 m wide x 3 m high. Pretty much the same size. But no one asked me.

[rob love]

Grant: Most of the SMP's normal rating was half the highway rating. So even in the good old days, a 2-1/2 ton actually had a highway capacity of 5 tons.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by rob love

Nice looking truck. It is also nice to see it go to a North American manufacture and design, as opposed to a European or Eastern bloc model. I believe Tatra had a horse or two in the race. Not to belittle Tatra, as I am sure they are fine trucks over on the other side of the world where they belong, but they are not native to here.

It looks very European to me - we do build the best trucks and cars in the world, mind you

Mack Trucks is a subsidiary of AB Volvo which purchased Mack along with Renault Trucks in 2000. If you have a close read, you will see Volvo is the driving force behind it and in fact the truck is a re-badged Renault Kerax 8x8 truck. Assembly will be (partly) native, maybe some North American component manufacture (battery, tyres, etc?), but major manufacture and design is European - so much for "native", eh?

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[Frank v R]

just looking at the truck and having worked for Mercedes for 36 years I see no North American design features , this will be a foreign design assembled in Canada vehicle once again , I do hope that they make the truck a dumb truck for the battle field unlike the G-wagon, I know that the chassis will be outstanding considering the design features of European heavy trucks, Mack only in name, my 2 cents,