A Mixed Bag

 Catching up on several days worth of photos, I realized it is a bit of a mixed bag.

As usual I have some outsize loads. There are lots of farm equipment imports these days, as harvest season is fast approaching.

S+M Trucking from Sydney, NS has their big Freightliner lashed up with a four axle trailer (fourth axle is folded up on the deck) to haul a Massey Ferguson tractor.

[Massey, the Canadian company founded in 1847, later called Massey-Harris, joined with the British company Ferguson in 1953, forming Massey-Harris-Ferguson. They dropped Harris from the name in 1958. With numerous bailouts, international mergers and takeovers, ownership moved to the US, but it is still the largest tractor manufacturer in the world. It has manufacturing facilities in Jackson, Minnesota. This particular unit has a European license plate, so may be used.]

Forestry companies are also buying new equipment, much of which is imported from Scandinavia. XLR Transport from Terrebonne, QC had this sharp Peterbilt in Halifax to pick up a Komatsu loader.

Komatsu is headquartered in Japan, but is a multi-national company, and has its forestry division, based in Sweden, where it took over Partek (formerly Valtra and Valmet). This unit is a good fit on the Manac 35 tonne capacity trailer.

The biggest traffic generator in Halifax is container hauling, and there are hundreds of trucks involved on a daily basis. They are also usually on the move, making picture taking difficult. Occasionally I am in the right place at the right time:

This Navistar International Eagle model is a bit more high specification than most of the "sea can" haulers.

One of the over the road haulers that I seldom see, but is active running in and out of Halifax is C.A.T. The Coteau-du-Lac (near Montreal) based company took over the Sears Canada owned SLH in 2017.

This big Western Star is a bit of a departure from its usual Freightliners. The copmany also has some compressed natural gas (CNG) fueled tractors. Seven of them were destroyed in a fire in February, but have since been replaced. They also have some hybrid CNG assisted electric vehicles.

 When I see a load like this I wonder if Big Box Stores get their merchandise in Big Boxes? In this case however these crates are headed for Stelia Aerospace, a Lunenburg, NS based manufacturer of aircraft components made of "advanced composites".

I didn't catch the name of the operator of this handsome Peterbilt, due to the fog and rain, but it is likely from the local area. He also has a 35 tonne Manac trailer. The yellow spray painted "HAL SUN" means the crates were transported to HALifax on the ship Atlantic SUN.

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