Mack Super Liner tractor under containers
Mainfreight Mack Super Liner tractor under a tri-axle semi trailer hauling containers. New Zealand 1980s Auckland "Angel of Darkness' LW2193
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This eight-wheeler Mack Ultra Liner MF2000 worked out of the Auckland branch for Mainfreight, and replete with its four-axle trailer was one of the most recognisable combinations in New Zealand during the eighties.
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Mainfreight was one of those companies that embraced Pacifica, and I have a heap of shots of Mainfreight (mainly Barry Docherty and his Steelbro Sideflifter) promotional shots showing how road-and-sea combine to move freight...mind you, they were big supporters of rail too - but ask the public even to this day - and they associate the branding with trucks - Mainfreight founders Neil Graham, Howard Smith and Bruce Plested were way ahead of their time...
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This T2670 International was contracted to Mainfreight by LH Gibb and it worked out of Auckland, in an era of alloy bull-bars , and unfettered freedom from de-regulation that allowed rigs like this to go from one end of the country to other, a pleasure denied the industry just a few years earlier.
B-trains revolutionised long distance haulage as seen with this early example.
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'Misty Blue' - International Paystar contracted to Mainfreight by Trevor Lowrey in the eighties, and I believe it was powered by a 6V92 Detroit Diesel.
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Mainfreight FR700 1984 HX1757
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