What sorts of exciting/strange trucks have you seen irl?

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15 Dec 2015 20:37

I live on the side of the Canadian 401 highway where I have to cross it to get food or go into the city. The 401 is the highway that everything must come through from eastern Canada, Europe, or northern Africa to get to 80% of north america (where consumers are, anyways), so it is mostly truck traffic here, and I wanted to vent off some of the great trucks I see going by sometimes, other than the usual Freightliner and Volvo trucks.

Some notable trucks are:
- One Scania T! Never was available in most of north america, hasn't been in production for 10 years! This was an exciting thing to see!
- Today, two russian trucks! I couldn't read them, though, so I can't say what kinds of trucks they were.
- Also today, a cab-over kenworth, the same one I see come by here once in a while.
- A small truck pulling a heavy, oversize cargo. This one made me sort of nervous to be near since the cargo was round and it wobbled a fair bit, and didn't seem to be tied down adequately.
- A regular old Volvo VNL, but with a really cool paint job. It used two relatively dark shades of blue and looked as though the truck was torn away towards the trailer in its design.
- On a really busy night, a bunch really old Peterbilts with various cool paint jobs! I was frightened by the loud noises these trucks made, though.

So what have you guys seen?

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15 Dec 2015 20:58

A Volvo FH with 700bhp, yesterday. Pretty unusual sight.
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15 Dec 2015 23:06

I have seen Kenworth in UK and it was not a show one

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16 Dec 2015 16:38

I have seen a rigid DAF E6 ( pretty unusual here )
and a Mack which the treiler was the owner's actual house
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16 Dec 2015 18:27

All of the trucks that go to Tallinn port use Narva maantee, and that's the main way i go to school, so i see ALOT of trucks.
Most of them are quite bland, but one looked exactly like the Magma Heat paintjob - from DLC Force of Nature.
That was visually quite stunning :)
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18 Dec 2015 05:23

I saw another Scania T today, this one was black.

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18 Dec 2015 06:48

I saw a Scania T too, it's one damn ugly truck irl. Damn
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18 Dec 2015 09:14

Saw Coca-Cola Volvo today at city.
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18 Dec 2015 14:29

This Coca-Cola publicity is pretty common actually, you can even track locations where the Coca-Cola truck will "share happiness" of Christmas. I remember it from when I was a little lad, I always looked forward to these trucks to appear, it meant that Christmas came.
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18 Dec 2015 16:43

I've already posted this (post burried now, I guess), but I once saw an MAN 8x4 with an enormous CAT digger on a beam trailer with rear wheel steering on the back on my way to work. It was followed by two regular flatbeds carrying the tracks for the digger.
I didn't get a look at the model number, but it sounded pretty potent.
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