"Tell 'em Large Marge Sent Ya"

So Last Friday I got to go to the Mid-American Truck Show and had a great time looking at all the stuff there. I felt like the show was a book and I only looked at the pictures. There was so much to see! I definitely have set the recorded for the most pictures in one post so I will get right to it. I will include a brief description above each picture or group of pictures. Enjoy!


First thing is first I drove my truck to the show. It was held in Louisville Kentucky.



The show was everything to do with trucks (Semi-Trucks) but some of the displays where just there for kicks.




I really had a great time looking around and asking all the sales guys tough questions. Here are a few of the trucks themselves.



The logo on the back of this is carved out and lit with the brakes.



One thing that really caught my eye was these lifts that pick up whole box truck into the air! having worked under these for a while I can imagine how nice this would be.



The best part though was getting to see the engines on display with all the new releases. Here is a 6.7 liter inline 6 cylinder Cummis that they put into the Dodge Ram diesel truck. I hope to one day own that truck. My plan is that its value will go down and my income will go up! (Just for reference my truck that I own is a v6 4.3 liter engine)






Next is Cummins new release for the year the ISX15. It also is a inline six cylinder but has 15 liters of displacement. It goes in the big trucks. (note the man standing behind it)




Here is a Mack engine (I believe) that caught my eye. Sorry I don't have the specs for it.



This is the Detroit Diesel that I rebuilt at school. I saw it and pointed it out to my friend and as we where looking the sales rep. came up to us and said "let me guess. You have rebuilt this engine." I think he was tired of all the students coming up. If I remember right it is an 12 liter engine.




One of the greatest parts of the show was getting to see the cut away models of all the products. What could be better then a hands on model with a rep. from the company right there to tell you how it all works? Here are some of the engine cut-aways. Its scary that I know how most of these work.




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With all that engine you need somewhere for it to go. I had a great talk with a sales rep about this Allison Transmission cut-away.





After the transmission comes the rear end gearing.




Maybe big trucks don't float your boat but I had a awesome experience at my first Truck Show looking at all of parts that break and need someone to fix them :)