ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Mack Defense officially delivered to the U.S. Army and the U.S. Army Reserve the first M917A3 heavy dump trucks during a tented ceremony Sept. 23. The new production line for the dump ...

Mack Trucks Inc. is manufacturing a four-axle, heavy-duty dump truck for the U.S. Army designated the M917A3. It has a GVW of 94,500 pounds with a maximum payload of 54,000 pounds, and is offered with ...

Mack Defense, a subsidiary of Mack Trucks, is displaying the M917A3 heavy duty dump trucks with an armored cab for the first time in public. Mack Defense, a subsidiary of Mack Trucks, is displaying ...

Mack Trucks is again building some heavy-duty vehicles in Allentown — the first time the company has produced trucks in the city in more than 30 years. The company on Thursday announced Mack Defense ...

Non-armored doesn’t mean less rugged. It may not have the capabilities of its cooler cousins, the armored military vehicles, but the Mack Defense Heavy Dump Truck (HDT) still comes with some ...

While that might seem like a random assortment of letters and numbers, it’s the name of the program that Mack Defense has ingrained in its head as it gears up to provide hundreds of heavy dump trucks ...

The U.S. Army has awarded Mack Defense a five-year contract worth up to $221.8 million for continued production of the M917A3 Heavy Dump Truck (HDT). The agreement, announced June 24, 2025, covers up ...

ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania—Note to truck manufacturers looking to win a nine-figure U.S. Army contract: Start with a commercially available vehicle that’s already 80% of the way to the top-tier military ...

The U.S. Army took delivery of the first five Mack Granite model-based M917A3 heavy-dump trucks (HDT). In July, the trucks will enter up to 40 weeks of durability testing. Mack Defense to Showcase ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In order to better fulfill a military contract, Mack ...

Mack Defense announced today that the U.S. Army ordered 99 Mack Defense M917A3 non-armored Heavy Dump Trucks (HDT) as part of the previously announced firm-fixed-price $296.4 million contract between ...

A lot of ink, pixels, and synapses get spent trying to figure out how to make heavy duty electric trucks that can travel 500 to 1,000 miles in a day and get a fast enough recharge before heading back ...