While crew cabs are all the rage for pickups these days, they have long been used for larger trucks such as utility and fire apparatus.
These days it seems that Freightliner has the larger market share, but Navistar International is also represented.
CN Rail has quantities of both brands, with hi-rail conversions and a variety of utility bodies. Freightliner crew cabs, through the skillful use of sheet metal, uses the same door for driver and passengers.
International however, has a different door for the back seat users. Note the panels in the hood, allowing access to vital fluids without having to tip the bonnet.
One of the most unusual crew cabs I have seen is this extra axle, long hood, FL80, operated by a New Brunswick road building contractor Falls Construction of Grand Falls, NB.
The truck was spotted at Aulac, NB.
Pierce built this Contender 1050/800 pumper tanker on a 2007 Navistar 4400 commercial chassis with crew cab operated by the Oxford, Nova Scotia VFD.
And conveniently just outside a Timmies for the fire truck
ReplyDeleteI should have said there was an actual fire! The free standing cooler behind the store was being hosed down my firefighters, and Tim's was closed.
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