Ever wanted to own a fire truck?
Able Auctions will be selling one Saturday in Langley as part of a giant “Vehicles, Buses, Industrial and More” auction.
The 1997 Freightliner was formerly part of Surrey’s fire truck fleet, which explains its distinctive lime-green colour. The “pumper truck” runs on diesel, has air brakes, and has travelled 255,686 kilometres.
“They usually go for quite a good deal,” said Rob Kavanagh of Able Auctions. “This will probably sell for $5,000 to $10,000. For a small town, that’s perfect.”
Kavanagh said Able gets fire trucks in “every once in a while” when municipalities buy new trucks.
“Sometimes movie sets will buy them, small towns buy them,” he said. “A friend of mine, Brad Newell, the King of Floors, was at one of our auctions years ago. There was a small town bidding on a fire truck, and he ended up overbidding them. He bought it, then he donated it to the town, so that was nice.”
