Mack

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Mack is Lightning McQueen's trailer truck, a supporting hero in the Cars franchise, a supporting hero in Cars, a minor hero in Cars 2, and a major hero in Cars 3. He is voiced by John Ratzenberger who also voiced Hamm in Toy Story.

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Cars[]

Mack is responsible for transporting Lightning McQueen to all his races. McQueen exhorts Mack to drive through the night to his tiebreaker race with Chick Hicks (Michael Keaton) and The King (Richard Petty) in Los Angeles, despite federal DOT regulations which legally grant Mack 11 hours daily of much-needed off-duty rest alongside "all those sleeping trucks" at the last truck stop on I-40. McQueen hopes to reach the venue first and to hang out with the Dinoco team. As a result, Mack falls asleep and, distracted by the Delinquent Road Hazards (who attempt to push him off the road to the shoulder), loses McQueen in the process. He is seen on television as he arrives in California and discovers that McQueen is gone.

Later Mack arrives in Radiator Springs after Doc Hudson (Paul Newman) reveals McQueen's location and is both very relieved ("Thank the Manufacturer, you're alive!") and apologetic ("I'm so sorry I lost you, boss. I'll make it up to you..."). Lightning, who is glad to see him, forgives him. Mack takes the reluctant McQueen out of Radiator Springs to compete in the race.

At the final race, he was to act as McQueen's pit crew before the Radiator Springs folks came. During the credits, he watches parodies of other Pixar movies and notes that all of them feature a character played by John Ratzenberger, and amusingly, he is voiced by Ratzenberger as well ("Wait a minute, here. They're just using the same actor over and over! What kind of cut-rate production is this?!").

Cars 2[]

Mack makes a couple minor appearances as part of McQueen's Piston Cup racing team. He also has some slight differences in his design in this film, possibly to take on McQueen's own redesign: while in the original film his cap-shaped wind deflector is white, here it is red. The design of his trailer is also different.

In the sequel, he is briefly seen at the beginning when McQueen comes back to Radiator Springs, where he says one of his only two lines, "Oh, these best friend greetings are getting longer every year." He doesn't accompany him to the World Grand Prix due to being on vacation. At the end he talks with Lizzie (Katherine Helmond) and says the other of his only two lines of the movie, "Oh, those two are perfect for each other."

Cars 3[]

Mack returns in Cars 3, in which he transports McQueen to the 2016 and 2017 Piston Cup races. They travel through various areas, including a large mountain range, a small bridge crossing a stream, and over a highway bridge.

Trivia[]

In the sequel, Mack has the least amount of dialogue out of all of John Ratzenberger's Pixar roles because he only had two lines.

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