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A Hayes-Anderson truck from 1933. The Hayes Manufacturing Company was established in Vancouver in 1920 by Douglas Hayes, an owner of a parts dealer, [1] and entrepreneur W. E. Anderson from Quadra Island, [1] as Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd. [2] The company sold American-built trucks and truck parts for the first two years, then built their own trucks, because the trucks weren’t strong ...
Pacific built both highway and off-road trucks, particularly for the logging industry, heavy haulers, and fire trucks. In 1947, three former Hayes Truck employees set up their truck-building shop, Pacific Truck & Trailer. Initially based on a shipping wharf at West Coast Shipyards on False Creek, in 1948 it moved to Franklin Street, East ...
A logging truck or timber lorry is a large truck used to carry logs. [1] Some have integrated flatbeds , some are discrete tractor units , and some are configured to spread a load between the tractor unit and a dollied trailer pulled behind it.
Challenger Manufacturing Ltd. was a British Columbia-based Canadian manufacturer of heavy trucks, that built both highway and off road trucks, particularly for the logging industry, under the Challenger, Custom Built for Heavy Industry, brand. Challenger was founded by John Casanave in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island in 1987.
Hayes WHDX 70-170 6×6 tractor. A ballast tractor is a specially weighted tractor unit of a heavy hauler combination. It is designed to utilize a drawbar to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large trailer loads which are loaded in a hydraulic modular trailer.
Log drivers at Klarälven in Sweden. Log driving is a means of moving logs (sawn tree trunks) from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river. It was the main transportation method of the early logging industry in Europe and North America. [1]
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1946 Peterbilt flatbed 1939 Peterbilt Model 334 (1 of 2 built 1939). In 1939, the Fageol plant in Oakland opened for business as Peterbilt Motors Company. As part of the design process, Peterman and his company engineers sought input from truck owners and drivers on how to develop trucks; [10] [11] initially planning to develop chain-drive trucks for the logging industry, the company ...