If there's someting strange in your neighborhood...

 The first line of the thme song from the Ghostbusters movie goes:

 "If there's something strange in your neighborhood

Who ya gonna call?

Ghostbusters."

There is a big sewer replacement project goin' on in my neighborhood and there are a lot of expensive and very fine Komatsu diggers and loaders, lots of pickups and some very nice support vehicles such Western Stars and Peterbilts, all owned by the Prime Contractor. 

 

When it comes to dump trucks however he has hired independants, and they are bringin' in some very strange equipment - not exactly fresh from the showroom. I'm not gonna a call ghostbusters - not yet anyway.

I believe this twin steer Navistar International is a Paystar model. I like that when the grill was removed, it revealed the original factory paint colour. I preferred the pre-fibreglass Paystars with steel hood and fenders, but this one will do for toughness - aside ftom the weirdly long wheelbase.

This beaut has a fleet number "97-04" on the hood, and it could well be from 1997. Mack introduced the R model cab, and the U and DM model offset cab trucks in the mid 1960s and they ran to about 2004. The DM was a heavier duty model of the U. This guy also has a newer BeauRoc dump body.

This Sterling carries a fleet number 07-038, which seems about right.

For a 2007 truck, it is in remarkable condition however.

Not in my neighbourhood, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it here, is this classic I discovered the other day:

Although it carries a Ford badge, I believe it is in fact a Sterling. The fleet number 09-051, if I am correct, would date it from the last year of production of the Sterling A series. Ford sold the Louisville plants to Freightliner in 1996 and the last Fords were produced in 1998. Sterling produced Louisville and Aeromax style trucks until 2009. They used second generation L cabs and aside from some labels were identical to the last model Fords. I believe it would be easy to swap out the name plate and remove Sterling lettering from the grille.

How about a house for sale with matching dump truck. Or vice versa?

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