Volvo FE

As mentioned last week when I saw a Volvo FL rigged as an RV, Volvo produced the FE tilt cab for North America. They were popular for fire apparatus for a time, (in fact I don't think they sold too many non-fire units!).  Custom  manufacturers, like Spartan could provide a fully tilting crew cab, but Volvo and the other commercial manufacturers never did, and soon withdrew from the fire apparatus line, and from the COE and low cab forward market completely.

Trenton, Nova Scotia ran this 1993 Volvo FE42 chassis with Anderson 1050 /1000 pumper as engine 19-01. It was sold in 2017 to Gore District. 2011 photo.

An unusual service, called Clean Heroes, offers a mobile bunker gear cleaning and sanitizing service out of Stewiacke, NS.

They run this Volvo FE with Metalfab walk in rescue body modified for their use. It has an independent crew cab. September 25, 2018 photo.

The Canadian government in one form or another had a number of Volvos on their rosters, especially the Department of Transport, which provided fire fighting at many airports.

The Almonte salesmen weren't trying too hard to sell this rig, since it had already been bought and paid for by the taxpayers. 1994 photo.

Halifax Airport had this unit, also built by Almonte, on duty in 1996. There are some slight differences with the unit above, but it is essentially the same spec, with the high reach Snozzle foam monitor. Snozzle is a Pierce trade mark.

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