Cab Extensions (ii)

A unique idea - a woodlands tour in a truck! What's the fun of taking a bus tour if you could take a TRUCK tour? That's the idea that this gentleman and his daughter had, and so they fitted out a Ford Aeromax with a large sleeper box, then converted the sleeper to passenger seating, with overhead and side and back windows, to get a view of the woods.

The tractor was fully fitted out to work as a commercial timber hauler, which it did in the off season, but during the summer it was reserved for tours.

A glimpse in the background shows some other members of the fleet - all days cabs. Transport Janifer, Sacré-Coeur, Saguenay, QC, June 29, 1996.

.

Cab Extensions (i)

Factory sleepers are back in with most manufacturers these days, so it is not unusual to see extended cabs, and of course there are four-door crew cabs. However non-sleeper cab extensions are pretty rare, except in fire apparatus.
On June 2, 1990 I was passing the Commercial Safety College in Belmont NS, near Truro, and had the presence of mind to take the following series of photos.
In these trucks, cab extensions were built to accommodate student drivers and instructors. CSC had a wide variety of trucks, no two the same, presumably to give students experience on a variety of engines, transmissions and makes of trucks.

1. Ford Louisville tractor.

2. Chev and International Harvester.

3. Freightliner, Western Star and Chev Bruin.

4. Ford Louisville straight truck.

.