[custom_adv] Asghar Ghandchi was one of the first entrepreneurs that started to revolutionise industrial sector by assembling and manufacturing big lorries, later Mack Trucks, that were built to suit the Iranian climate and bad roads in the 70s. [custom_adv] Asghar Ghandchi, founder Kaveh, the first lorry manufacturer, has died at 91. Ghandchi, also known as the father lorry-making industry, died on Monday aged 91 at a hospital. [custom_adv] Strictly speaking, a commercial vehicle without a tractor or other articulation is a "straight truck" while one designed specifically to pull a trailer is not a truck but a "tractor". [custom_adv] Modern trucks are largely powered by diesel engines, although small to medium size trucks with gasoline engines exist in the US, Canada, and Mexico. [custom_adv] He founded Kaveh Industrial Company in 1963. Ghandchi gained an exclusive agreement to be Mack Trucks’ distributor. He customized Mack trucks for roads. The American truck is still operating. [custom_adv] The entrepreneur also helped renovate the Army’s lorries during the eight-year Iraq-Iraq War of 1980, to transport tanks to the forefronts. [custom_adv] Although Mack Trucks’ participation ended in 1979 when the Shah was overthrown, the plant was able to continue production until 1983. Through 1978-1979, 7,152 Mack trucks were produced. [custom_adv] Curcio had been Mack's executive vice president of international operations at the time. “After their break-off of relations with the U.S., the (Mack) plant - where we used to assemble knocked-down trucks - was eventually used by Volvo."
