Notable Appearances in Media
Five 1970s Mack RS700 series trucks were used in the motion picture Convoy starring Kris Kristofferson as Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald and Ali MacGraw as Melissa.
A 1970s Mack R-600 truck with a "coolpower" engine setup is used to haul an oil tanker in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.
Maximum Overdrive (1986) is a horror tale of machinery come to life which includes a truck stop with various vehicles.
A Mack M915 (LHRT) Line-Haul Replacement Tractor (military version of the Mack Granite GU713 10-wheeler) with a (military version M970 fuel tanker) semi-trailer, will be the vehicle mode for Megatron in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
A 1984 Mack Superliner, owned by J.R. Collins Pulling Team, is also officially sponsored by Mack. The truck (named "Buckeye Bulldog") runs in the NTPA (National Tractor Pulling Association) in the "Super Semi" class.
Dale Gribble, a character from King of the Hill, is rarely seen without his Mack cap.
Optimus Prime, a primary protagonist in the Transformers franchise, was typically portrayed as a cab-over Mack until the 2007 live action film when he was changed to a Peterbilt.
In Bad Boys II (2003), a 2000 Mack CX 613 Vision truck is used by the villains.
In the film Cars, Mack is Lightning McQueen's transport, an animated 1985 Mack Super-Liner voiced by John Ratzenberger. Ratzenberger's father drove a Mack truck to deliver oil for three decades. On the "Disney/Pixar Road Trip '06", which promoted the film in a four-month tour of forty-one cities, "Mack" is a 2006 CH Rawhide 460-horsepower Mack truck carrying an Eddie Paul customised Trans Am as "Lightning".
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