The new venture lasted approximately through the early 1990s. After that time, Rand exited the industry, and the Rand Classic/Truxmore MSL vanished forever. Only the circular-bodied Rand Champion/EMCO design survives as of this writing. Versions of the this packer are still being produced by Pendpac division of Labrie Enviroquip (Impac SL) and also Southwestern Equipment Company of Justin, Texas (SEC Challenger). SEC's choice of names is confusing, since Challenger was originally applied to Rand's rectangular-bodied ASL. Left to right; Rand Champion (EMCO), Classic (Truxmore), and Challenger Truxmore survived briefly as the Rand Classic, virtually unchanged since the 1960s The old EMCO became the Rand Champion, now built as the Impac by Pendpac and the Challenger by SEC. THE RAND CHALLENGER     Rand literature makes no mention of the origin of the Challenger ASL, but it could trace its lineage back to a side loader called the Tite-Pak. The Tite-Pak was first introduced in 1971 by the Helix Corporation of Crown Point, Indiana. In 1973, Helix was bought out by Harsco Industries, parent company of Cobey Waste Control Systems, and became a division of the latter. By 1981, the remains of the old Cobey lineup (including the Tite-Pak) were acquired by Athey Products of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Athey product line included a gripper-arm ASL version of the Tite-Pak called the CWC 300. By mid-decade, Athey had dropped all of the Cobey-designed refuse bodies except for the Tite-Pak side loader (in MSL configuration), which stayed in production through the early 1990s. The Rand Challenger appeared about the same time Athey dropped the CWC 300 from their product line. Rand Challenger's ancestors: Helix, Cobey and Athey A 1991 Loadmaster ASL. Note the Rand control panel in the lower left Behemoth 1991 Rand Champion commercial side loader with Truxmore tailgate
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