Mack Trucks has shown a retrofitted refuse truck featuring Wrightspeed's turbine-powered electric "Route" powertrain. The truck was at the WasteExpo2016 (yes, that's a thing) in Las Vegas this week.

Talk about hedging your bets. I’ll likely never make it onto orbit, but I did finally get a drive in a garbage truck. Mack’s new LR model, actually, and it was worth the wait. Mack introduced the LR ...

Mack makes the truck’s chassis, but the body up top—the part that squashes the garbage and stores it—comes from one of three different companies and connects to the vehicle’s frame.

The Mack diesel/electric garbage truck is the first American-built hybrid garbage truck, according to Mack, and is expected to increase fuel economy by 20% while reducing greenhouse emissions.

Mack Trucks is donating a 2022 Mack LR Electric refuse chassis to Río Hondo College in Whittier, California. The gift will bolster the college’s efforts to expand its electric vehicle (EV ...

Mack LR electric rear-load waste truck; via Jonathan Segal. Mack showed up to the 2025 ACT Expo with a brand-new Mack Pioneer Class 8 semi and promises of a 300 mile electric version arriving next ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Mack Trucks, Inc. recently unveiled its new chassis, called Advantage, which the company is introducing to better serve the needs of highway customers. The new chassis will be used ...

The garbage truck that rolled backward down a hill and slammed into two vehicles and a hydro pole before tearing into a home in Sandy Hill on Monday had no one in its cab, Ottawa police confirmed ...

WHEN MACK Truck’s press people invited me to drive their electric trash truck at its headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., I was just so there . The very phrase sounded magical.

The truck will be manufactured at Mack’s assembly plant in Lower Macungie Township, which employs about 2,230 people and builds all heavy-duty Mack trucks for North America. Deliveries of the ...

The Mack LR BEV garbage trucks feature two 130 kW motors that produce a combined 496 peak horsepower, 4 NMC lithium-ion batteries, a 600V electrical system, and offer up to 150kW charge power with ...