Well, this little company based out of Brooklyn, New York, not only manufactured their own engines they designed them! One of their earliest advancements was the automatic starter.
We have all seen the movies where they crank and crank to get their car started, well the automatic starter made the crank follow the dinosaurs. Through such great innovation, Mack builds a solid reputation.
But there was another completely unrelated industry that had a large impact. Some might say even bigger than the militarist transportation needs. So which industry was it? Would you believe the logging industry?
That’s right; the logging industry had a major hand in helping to evolve the semi-trailer trucks into what we have today.
While Mack was busy on the East Coast, Peterbilt was solving problems in the Northwest, Washington State to be exact.
The loggers were frustrated with their limited means of getting logs from the forest to the lumber mills.
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