When shopping for a truck, he found a 1985 Mack Superliner ... construction equipment, gravel and grain across the upper Midwest from its home base in north-central Minnesota.

Ben Ickert of Amboy, Wash., hauls logs throughout the state with his nearly 30-year-old Mack Superliner. Ickert, of Amboy bought the truck three years ago and says he’s had to put $50,000 into ...