I snapped this photo on September 10th. This is one of Plattsmouth Volunteers Fire Department's newest fire trucks. It is a restored 1985 K30 Chevy, it used to be a former military CUCV other wise known as the M1008. This truck was rescued from a local scrap yard and was basically rebuilt and repainted, a complete ground up restoration then turned into a rural brush fire rescue truck. It has one the meanest paint jobs that I've ever seen on a working fire truck. Who'd have thought that the rescued would be turned into a rescuer.
Perfect paint job for a fire truck. Even if the truck in question isn't a hot rod. When the military retires these, most of them still had a decade of militarily useful life left in them.
Nice! Lots of retired military trucks become off-road fire service trucks of one kind or another. Every year, a small fleet of Hummers have water fire fighting gear strapped in and become fire trucks on Yakima Training Center in central Washington. Every so often, they come in handy by helping the soldiers put out range fires that threaten military training areas.
Well even the military themselves will fit some of their own trucks with fire fighting equipment to use on rural or brush fires. Its quite common to see an ex-military deuce to be painted up red, fitted with a brush guard, and to be carrying a water tank and then used fir fighting brush fire in rural volunteer fire fighting services.
Hey thanks for the fave.
When the military retires these, most of them still had a decade of militarily useful life left in them.
I think lot of people mostly purchase these retired trucks for their military grade.
Lots of retired military trucks become off-road fire service trucks of one kind or another. Every year, a small fleet of Hummers have water fire fighting gear strapped in and become fire trucks on Yakima Training Center in central Washington. Every so often, they come in handy by helping the soldiers put out range fires that threaten military training areas.