Bulldog Built for Battle

Mack Defense, an arm of Mack Trucks, built several of these prototype M915 military-grade line haul tractors – based on Mack’s Granite tractor chassis – a few years back to compete for a U.S. Army vehicle competition that never got off the ground. Yet this “next generation” M915 caught the eye of filmmakers, who used one to play the role of the nefarious “Megatron” in the third installment of the “Transformers” movie series.

Sean Kilcarr

Oct. 16, 2013

Mack Defense, an arm of Mack Trucks, built several of these prototype M915 military-grade linehaul tractors – based on the OEM's Granite chassis – a few years back to compete for a U.S. Army vehicle competition that never got off the ground. Yet this “next generation” M915 caught the eye of filmmakers, who used one to play the role of the nefarious “Megatron” in the third installment of the “Transformers” movie series.

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Sean Kilcarr

Editor in Chief

Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.