Truckfax has made very few road trips recently, so a brief loop through northern mainland Nova Scotia on September10 was the first in many months. The destination was Pictou County - noted for lots of trucks - and as it turned out, several vintage Fords.
Ford L- series trucks, known as Louisvilles were produced from 1970 to 1998 and a surprising number are still around.
This unusual looking Louisville has an L9000 hood, but I suspect the rest of the truck is another model. The eggcrate grille last appeared in 1988, and I would be amazed to see a 1988 model with as little rust on the cab as this one.
The 9000s were more frequently tandems too, so this is likely a "composite".
The unusual white cab and blue frame may tell a story. The truck was spotted at the Kenworth dealer in Westville, NS.
Not far away in Stellarton, NS, MacCulloch's Truck Services has a few wreckers, but this "Draggin Wagon" probably doesn't see much action despite a heavy duty wrecker body.
At the fishermen's dock in Caribou, NS, on the Northumberland Strait, this boom truck does useful work hauling gear on and off boats with its Pitman hydraulic boom.
A little further along the way the Abercrombie Volunteer Fire Department has a splendid apparatus roster of four units, all maintained in spotless condition. They show no favourites for chassis providers with an International (Engine 1), Kenworth (Tanker 1), Freightliner (Rescue 1) and this 1996 Ford F-800 (Pumper 1).
Ford stopped producing the Louisville model in 1997 and sold the manufacturing facility to Daimler / Freightliner, who renamed it Sterling. They continued to produce essentially the same truck. Ford then concentrated on lighter duty "Class 7" trucks, using as many pickup truck components as they could. I suspect it would be no fun squeezing into an F-series cab while wearing full bunker gear!
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