A dramatic staged photo illustration of a 1940s Mack semi pulling a Fruehauf Corporation (1918-1996) trailer near Greenville, Alabama. Mack Trucks gained a reputation for dependable service. In the early Thirties, their famous icon and logo, a tenacious Bulldog, began appearing on the hood of the trucks. "Built Like a Mack Truck" became common slang for anything indestructible.
In 1900, the three Mack brothers opened their first bus manufacturing plant to complete an order from a sightseeing company. The first "Mack bus" was delivered. Two years later The Mack Brothers Company moved to Brooklyn and in 1905 moved their headquarters to Allentown, Pennsylvania, remaining there for over a century until their relocation in 2009 to Greensboro, North Carolina, home of its parent company, Volvo.
Photo by John Vachon via shorpy dot com
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