To acually answer the original question....Would we (as Operators and Owners) support a change...

Yes for me Options are nice as long as cost isn't outragious. 

I think that the cost is the same, or so close as to make no difference.

Concord may have had a reason, at that time, for the cost difference. The boys from BC were the first to give a pump purchaser a truck with something other than the "Grind-O-Dyne" 9 speed. Maybe they had to sell their stock of special order Macs and that is why they wanted extra for the change......... just a guess.

Could be I was to cheap at that point to ask....

Moot point anyway.

As to the original question.. I would say that it is long past time. Yes!

My only fear is that some would "spec-down" a chasis for a few $ savings and leave a customer with a

AWESOME PIC...

THAT IS PERFECT!!!!!

just got a quote on 2 trucks and brand A wanted 15,000 more to mount on a condor ,not a mack,I Heard you would save that much.Is the a tactic between them and mack to keep macks corner on the market,if so,maybe its time for the unsatisfied customers to be heard,  

pudg

Perhaps we can get Dave, from Alliance on here to fill us in on the difference.

How was the Condor equiped? Do you have a spec sheet for the carrier?