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    airport crash tenders are probably the coolest vehicles about, I've spent all of my adult years on airfields maintaining light aircraft and am now based on a tiny grass strip in England's east midlands. our current response vehicle is a landrover deffender V8 with super wide flotation tyres to get over the ploughed fields pilots like to land in (video is a few years old) https://www.facebook.com/matthew.mit...type=2&theater and here are a couple of shots of the Rangerover my boss purchased as a project, 6x4, GRP body over an ally tank and spectacularly leaky pump set up looks like something out of thunderbirds Two-headed fire truck - photo-11329764_10207224676321685_2020718636058774503_n.jpgTwo-headed fire truck - photo-11350615_10207224677801722_3715713495183890974_n.jpgTwo-headed fire truck - photo-11246847_10207224673481614_6804696550934397554_n.jpgTwo-headed fire truck - photo-11110882_10207224674641643_2604417258032457804_n.jpg we pulled it out of the field where it had been sat for 10 years, stuck some fuel and a battery in it and drove it 100 miles back home hitting the sirens every time we passed a pedestrian. I love my job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
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    I like how the driver slew the rear over to block that car form encroaching on his right while making the exit.
    Sometimes a feature like that would be handy on semi tractor trailer rigs since the average car driver doesn't realize that when a truck swings to the left to make a right turn he is doing so to allow for the length of the rig to be able to negotiate a turn, and not a signal for the car to go around on the right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
    I like how the driver slew the rear over to block that car form encroaching on his right while making the exit.
    Sometimes a feature like that would be handy on semi tractor trailer rigs since the average car driver doesn't realize that when a truck swings to the left to make a right turn he is doing so to allow for the length of the rig to be able to negotiate a turn, and not a signal for the car to go around on the right.
    The driver doesn't control the tender, there's a tiller man sitting in a cab over the rear axle. They are in constant communication



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