Carson Volvo quad-axled logger semie

Unusual even in its day when this was photographed in the late eighties/early nineties, this R-series Mack was set up as a dedicated lime and superphosphate spreader, and pulled a three-axle dedicated bulk trailer.

Don Carson operated in Balfour which has some of Southland’s finest plains country spreading out from every point of the compass, and this truck and it’s application resonates with the GMC 6×6 ex-military trucks that were put to work in this application for decades after the war.

It might not have been 6×6 but it certainly would have been a lot quieter and more comfortable…