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Scot trucks Part 4 of 3 - fire apparatus chassis
When I started my little retrospective on Scot trucks I thought I would just include fire apparatus as part of the C1 and C2 tilt cab section. It then occurred to me that in fact some of the fire...
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Roll ON, Roll OFF
The Port of Halifax is the terminus for a lot of Roll On-Roll Off cargo. Not just new cars (and there are thousands of those) but also the annual flood of European travel vehicles (outbound) at this...
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Sucker trucks
For some reason I saw a lot of vacuum trucks working near the waterfront last week - just lucky I guess.1. and 2. October 16, Pardy's had this new Western Star 4700 with Vactor 2100 setting up at pier...
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Clarke Freightliner and big scoop
A nicely fitted out Freightliner with Trail King tri-axle trailer running for Clarke Road Transport Inc had this big imported bucket to haul today..
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Big load through town
Pulling an oversize load through downtown Halifax on a Saturday morning is an interesting exercise.In today's case it was a classic Kenworth, with dolly and Fontaine four axle trailer, carrying a...
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Dartmouth Fire Department
Pre-amalgamation in 1996, the City of Dartmouth, NS, maintained its own independence on the east side of Halifax harbour. Dartmouth was founded in 1750 (one year after Halifax) and still maintains its...
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Mills Western Star - all feet on the floor
Mills Heavy Hauling pulled this large Cat out of Fairview today. It is not often that I get to see the drop axle actually dropped, and the fourth axle on the trailer also in use. 1. Though my front...
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October round up - north end traffic 24/7
During the past month the north end of peninsular Halifax experienced a boom in traffic. The usual activity at the Fairview Cove container terminal and CN's intermodal yard is significant, but usually...
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Pete from the bright red mud
Red Skye Trucking from Cornwall, PE are daily callers in Halifax with a variety of containers, usually reefer types carrying fish or produce.They may even carry spuds.Today's shot is a nicely spruced...
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Toronto trip - Part 1
A very quick business trip to the big smoke allowed for a few minutes of truck watching while going to and fro between meetings, meals and hotel. Most of what I saw was construction related (except for...
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Toronto Trip - Part 2
Very close to the location of my meetings in Toronto was station 332. Part of the Toronto Fire Service's South Command and very close to the financial district, it is an extraordinarily busy...
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American LaFrance from the shoebox
By way of contrast to modern looking fire apparatus here's a dip into the oldies shoebox from the northern Maine community of Caribou. The classic American LaFrance 'bathtub" is probably the image many...
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Merry Christmas
After a prolonged break Trucfax will be back after Christmas. In the meantime enjoy a peaceful and joyous Christmas.Where's the Fire?In 1971 the old Halifax Infirmary hospital was plagued with false...
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Snow
A major blizzard hit Halifax January 3, so traveling around the streets was out of the question (for me). Even the city buses were parked. However plows were running and so were emergency vehicles.By...
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GO Transit - now (not) extended to Halifax
The ever expanding Government of Ontario Transit system (GO Transit) has been adding buses at a fast rate to serve more distant suburban areas - but not quite as far as Halifax. The latest model,...
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Macks on the job
A major construction project in downtown Halifax is Mack country. Quality Concrete, the ready-mix concrete supplier appears to be a mostly Mack operation, whether it is for their transit mixers or pump...
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Bellemare - slick rigs for big loads
A pair of Bellemare trucks arrived on Friday for some wide and heavy loads out of the Port of Halifax. They were loaded up on Saturday and ready to roll Sunday.Unit 60170 is this well equipped...
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Terberg - just visiting
Always on the look out for strange and unusual trucks, I discovered a particularly rare vehicle (at least for Canada) yesterday. The Saudi Arabian RoRo ship Bahri Tabuk made a one day call in the Port...
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Volvo from Saskatoon
RSB Logistic had a pair of trucks in town this week to pick up containers from Fairview Cove. Nothing terribly distinctive about the trucks except that one was fitted with aerodynamic wheel covers....
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Oldies at work
It was a case of calling all trucks as massive amounts of gravel were needed for the new pier 6 construction at Halifax Shipyard. Most of the material came in with semi-trailer dump trucks, many with...
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