CF HLVW Photo reference gallery

[Robin Craig]

Another weekend and some more slides scanned.

My favourite truck in any fleet is always a wrecker because of it being a live animated all singing all dancing truck. I adore vehicles that work for a living and are all business.

The crane seen in the side shot at Chateau Montebello on 92982 in 1995 is only one of 3 business ends of the machine. the stinger arm on 93007 taken at Petawawa in 1994 is being readied for a casualty.

The HLVW fleet were as a whole painted in the factory in a camouflage scheme to the same pattern. Magnetic sheeting masks were used and they were supposed to be all the same as the signed off vehicle that was the standard.

That was great, but then when an overseas UN deployment had them all painted white, they returned and were painted monotone green (93029) in 1998 as doing the cam scheme over was too costly, and what if they when on a UN mission again?

For the D Day anniversary in Ottawa the CF supported the movement of vehicles. Here we see a wrecker 93090 lifting a universal wotsit onto the back deck of a trailer. Curiously I saw someone else attempt to load a Carrier to the same style of deck by driving it up and fail, but that is another story.