The Brockway Truck Factory: How Mack Trucks Destroyed Cortland's 65-Year Trucking Empire

The Brockway Truck Factory: How Mack Trucks Destroyed Cortland's 65-Year Trucking Empire. For sixty-five years, Brockway built some of the most respected heavy trucks in America — one at a time, by hand, in a factory in Cortland, New York that never switched to assembly lines even when everyone else did. New York City sanitation. Northeast fire departments. Construction dump trucks across the region. If you worked hard for a living in the northeastern United States, you probably drove a Brockway. Then in August 1956, Mack Trucks bought them. Twenty-one years later, in June 1977, Mack closed the Cortland plant and walked away. This is the full story — from William Brockway's carriage shop in Homer, NY in 1875, to George Brockway's first motor truck in 1912, through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the iconic 260 Series and 300 Series, the Husky hood ornament, the wildcat strike of 1977, and the community that refused to let the memory die. 🔔 Subscribe for deep-dive stories on American manufacturing, forgotten companies, and the communities that built them. 👍 If this story moved you, hit like — it helps more people find stories like this one. 💬 Drop your Brockway story in the comments. Did you drive one, own one, work at the plant, or ride on a fire truck with a Husky on the hood? We read every comment. . . . . . . . #BrockwayTrucks #vintagetrucks #HeavyTrucks #custombuilttrucks #TruckHistory #americanmanufacturing