Hey Rodns

Hey RodNS I believe that you are from nova scotia. If so do you remember Scot trucks that were built by and used by Sunbury trucking? I used to see them regularly in Maine years ago but now I can't find any reference to them. Thanks Colin

Yes, I'm from NS. I don't remember the Scot trucks too well other than NSDOT had a bunch of them at one time as 4x4 plow trucks. I didn't know Sunbury used them as tractors, or anything about their origin for that matter...
NSDOT also had a bunch of Oshkosh and Western Star 4x4 plow trucks. Thankfully they've about cured themselves of that affliction.

Rod

Hi Rod, thanks for getting back to me do you know where one might find any information about them or pictures?

Don't recall much about them, seems to me Scot was owned by Irving Oil and trucks were built in Debert N.S. I believe Irving was going for total vertical and horizontal integration and thought building there own trucks was part of it. Sunbury is owned by Irving. Local FD still has a Scot tanker truck.

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/scot.htm

Scot trucks I believe wer first built in Saint John, New Brunswick then moved production to Debert. Scot was owned by Irving. Irving also built Skidders and school bus bodies in Saint John. The Skidders were just known as Irving Skidders (from what I can remember) although they looked just like a Timberjack skidder. The bus bodies had the name Atlantic Bus & Body or Atlantic truck and body, I can"t remember which. I used to work for Universal Truck and Trailer, an Irving outfit and we still sold parts for Scot's up into the late 90"s. There were two style of cabs as seen in Hanks photos. The first ones used a ford cab and there own hood design. The second version used there own cab design and the conventionals then used a big one piece fiberglass hood (ugly in my opinion). We used to differentiate the two in the parts department by asking ford cab or "roadgrader hood". The later cab was also used for the low cab forwards or coe"s. It was much easier to get parts for the ford cab at the end than the later scot built cabs.

Universal Sales was a freightliner/mercedes truck dealer when I worked there but they also sell stirling and western star now since freightliner bought them out. Back in the 80"s we also sold Pacific trucks( built in British Columbia).