How the new offerings from Mack Trucks aim to meet demand in both the present and the future

How the new offerings from Mack Trucks aim to meet demand in both the present and the future

Amid a year fraught with challenges, Mack Trucks managed to make a splash in two areas of the truck market in 2020: with the LR Electric refuse truck, and its re-entry into the medium-duty market with the MD6 and MD7 lines.

Jonathan Randall, Mack Trucks senior vice president of North American sales and commercial operations, has been with the company for several years and joined at an interesting time in the trucking industry, just as the lights were coming up and the sustainable future started to become visible. In bringing both the LR Electric and the MD Series into existence this year, the OEM showed a simultaneous focus on the past and the future.

FE caught up with Jonathan on both sides of this coin—read the story above to hear about both.

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