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2 8 | BULLDOG | 2 0 1 6 V 1 TAILLIGHTS Farewell to Old Man Winter Mack Trucks help dig out of the snow Hunterdon County, New Jersey took delivery of a fl eet of Mack Granite MHD trucks prior to last winter to help keep its roads and highways clear, which was a good call considering the nearly 30 inches parts of the county received in January's blizzard. In early February, Trans American Trucking Services, South Plainfi eld, NJ, used a Titan by Mack to move several huge electrical transformers, also known as shunt reactors, from a terminal in Philadelphia to a Pennsylvania Power & Light substation in Lower Macungie, Pennsylvania (coincidentally, just down the road from Mack Trucks Lehigh Valley Assembly Operations). Each transformer weighed 133,600 pounds and required a 13-axle perimeter frame lowboy. The Titan was unfazed by the conditions created by a big snowstorm followed by rain a few days earlier, and handled the muddy destination with aplomb. Utah DOT employees Jack Mason and Roger Frantz take a break in front of their Mack ® Granite ® snowplows. These are big-time highway plows with primary responsibility for the Parley Canyon section of I-80. They're equipped with 505 hp MP ® 8 engines and Mack mDRIVE™ HD automated manual transmissions running front, left- and right-hand wing plows through a REPTO. These two units were part of a 25 truck order from the state and Utah operates more than 100 Mack trucks. Six more Granite models with mDRIVE HD are being added to the fl eet. Notice how free of snow the pavement is!