Mack Trucks is the safest conventional truck in Australia
Mack Trucks are the safest conventional trucks in the Australian market. What makes our trucks so safe? Mack Trucks has partnered with Bendix Wingman Fusion to provide our customers with industry leading active safety technology, coupled with our inherent passive safety features, to deliver the most advanced safety package in a conventional truck.
Bendix® Wingman® Fusion™
The Bendix® Wingman® Fusion™ safety system integrates camera, radar, and brakes into one of the most comprehensive and powerful driver assistance systems in the Australian and New Zealand Conventional truck market today.
Features of the new system include:
- Collision Mitigation - potential prevention of possible collisions with forward moving vehicles
- Adaptive Cruise Control With Braking
- Alerts including: Lane Departure Warning, Following Distance, Impact and Stationary Object
- Bendix® BlindSpotter™*
- Electronic Stability System (ESP) / Mack Road Stability Advantage (RSA)**
Road Stability Advantage (RSA)
Watch how this full-stability system helps drivers mitigate rollovers and loss-of-control situations on wet and dry roads. The system helps to mitigate vehicle jack-knifes, slides, skids and loss-of-control through advanced monitoring of a variety of vehicle parameters and automatic and selective application of vehicle brakes. Mack RSA, through its roll stability program, helps to mitigate rollovers through advanced sensing and automatic application of vehicle brakes.
Collision Mitigation
Watch how the Bendix Wingman Fusion Stationary vehicle Braking feature provides an alert and braking intervention when the system definitively identifies a large, stationary vehicle in the lane, to help you driver mitigate a collision.
Mack Trucks inherent safety features
Every Mack trucks comes with these inherent safety features built in.
- Core ABS braking
- Park brake door alarm
- Front and side underrun protection (FUPs and SUPs)
- Automated Manual Transmission - reducing driver fatigue
- Grade Gripper
- Cabin strength - steel cabins have undergone testing to comply with UN ECE regulations 29R
- High-visibility doors
- Integrated seat belt/suspension seat
- Bonnet absorbs impact
No country for the faint hearted
From factory floor to blistering Outback, with pure guts and iron determination, together we’ve faced down the odds to carve out a country. Nothing binds us together like the sweat of a long day’s work well done. Always believing the hardest jobs are the ones worth doing, knowing that it’s the men and women of this great industry that drives Australia forward. On the highway, in the outback, on the farm and on busy city streets. From the bush to the city, Mack is there.
For a century, Mack has stood behind our customers with trucks built for business, meeting the challenge of our gruelling conditions and the expectations of the hard working men and women of this great southern land.
Mack Trucks. Born Ready.
Click on the play button to watch the Mack Trucks video celebrating Australia's hardworking transport industry.
Bendix® Wingman® Fusion™ and Bendix® Blindspotter™ are available on new truck orders only and cannot be retrofitted.
*Bendix® Wingman® Fusion™ and Bendix® Blindspotter™ are offered as an option on applicable models having Bendix ESP/Mack RSA in the specification.
**ESP/RSA is a required option supporting Bendix® Wingman® Fusion™ including BlindSpotter™ package."