All eyes on our Allies

[saddlebum]

All eyes on our Allies

07/22/2009

 

 

FERGUS, Ont. -- When the pedal-to-the-metal crowd meets the pedal-steel-guitar crowd in this central Ontario town for the annual Fergus Truck show this week, they’ll get a chance to see a platoon of some of the prettiest iron on the continent.

The Show ‘n’ Shine event is always a big draw. But this year, one truck in particular is guaranteed to bring tears to even the most jaded of eyes.

It’s a 2010 Volvo VN 670 with a 485-hp D 13 Volvo engine, I-shift automatic transmission, fully tricked out sleeper berth, aluminum wheels, full fairings and everything else an owner-operator might want in a truck. (Just thinking about it makes you kinda emotional, don’t it?)

 

http://todaystrucking.com/images/usr_220709124206_Ally02.jpg But here’s the thing: Every year, Volvo employees in the New River Valley Plant in Virginia trick out one rig for use in the Memorial and D-Day parades Stateside, and this year, they borrowed this 670 from Sheehan’s Truck Centre in Burlington, Ont., for the honor. The truck’s a virtual history lesson.

Most recently, the truck that will be on display in Fergus was escorted through Washington D.C., by a few hundred motorcyclists, as part of the Memorial Day Weekend.

 

http://www.todaystrucking.com/images/usr_220709124206_Ally01.jpg And the good folks in Virginia didn’t overlook the Canadians who fought so valiantly in WW-II.

Explains Volvo spokesman Jim McNamara: “If you look closely at the image on the fuel tank fairings, you’ll see Canadian flags in front of gravestones and a bagpiper playing, in remembrance of the role Canadian soldiers played on D-Day.”

The Fergus show opens Thursday and runs until Sunday.

[mini-muffin]

Wow that is really cool.

 

Margaret

[dray]

Nice Looking Rig. and it tells a great story!

 

Dray

[ArticusMedicus]

That is quite awesome!!

 

Grandfather was a Tank Commander during the invasions.

 

His great grandson is very proud of that.

http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu178/Wheellock/Taylor.jpg

My oldest son, Taylor:clap2:

[saddlebum]

Here are some additional pic's of our D_Day commemorative truck

[Aussie Annie]

Well done to all involved :clap2: "LEST WE FORGET"

[Guest seuadr]

too many people take for granted what our armed forces have been through and go through for things we take for granted.

 

i have never served, but being a civil war re-enactor gives me the slightest taste of a hint of it.

 

I do truely hope that we never forget.