Grantsville, Maryland-based owner-operator Thomas Menges showed this classic beauty at the 2023 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, in March.
Menges, owner of Thomas W. Menges Trucking, Inc., has been in business since 1973 and hauls mostly general freight. At one time in his career, he had as many as 15 trucks in the fleet. Today, he's down to one road tractor and three snow plows that he operates.
Almost all of the paint on the truck is original, including the rig's nickname shown here on the side of the hood.All photos by Matt Cole unless otherwise noted
One of the few changes to the paint on the truck is the bulldog on the back of the cab.
The 1986 Mack Super-Liner is still mostly original, including the paint and the 500-hp Mack V8 under the hood. Most of the changes Menges has made to it are with the lights and interior. Menges estimates that the truck only has about 400,000 original miles on it.
He bought it in April 2022, after it had been parked "in the weeds" for 11 years. He's been familiar with the truck since it was new and said the original owner took it to Mack truck shows for about seven years before he parked it.
