"Nicknames" for Your Apparatus?

So... I'm just curious as to some of the general and more specific names given to apparatus from the US and around the world... for example, our pumper is called an engine (yeah, i know alot of people call it that), airel apparatus around our area are refered to as towers, ladders, airel's, trucks... an ambulance is known as a bus or a rig.

More specifically... we have a huge tanker that we call the whale and our older pumper is known as the "popemobile" due to the very high roof on the crew area.

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Permalink Reply by eric mazurczyk on May 30, 2009 at 4:23pm

I am the lieutenant of are heavy rescue and are ladder truck I call them my babies

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Stahl on July 26, 2009 at 11:59pm

We named our tanker MOE

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Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on July 27, 2009 at 12:08am

I love those old Mack trucks!!!! The style and lines on those trucks are awesome!!!

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Permalink Reply by Mike on July 27, 2009 at 1:27am

yeah, i have to agree. those R models have a great look but i really like the DM's, they look tough. They have a butterfly hood that is boxy. of course they gotta have a mackadyne motor in it. Or even a superliner!

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Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on July 28, 2009 at 12:10am

I'm ready to name my own truck that pretty soon for as much gas as the thing drinks

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Permalink Reply by Bill Brierton on July 28, 2009 at 3:44pm

Well the tanker is called Boss Hog, but as far as I know the engines don't have a nickname.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Brierton on July 28, 2009 at 3:46pm

Oh yeah I forgot to add the truck of my former company was called "Big As a Whale, Slow as a Snail."

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Permalink Reply by james w. hunter on July 28, 2009 at 4:18pm

1956 ford pumper parade truck called the Gray Ghost, 1998 ford pumper called the farm tractor because only has top speed of 62 mph.

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Permalink Reply by Sarah on July 28, 2009 at 5:53pm

our qrs truck was numbered 51 like from emergency.... and our neighboring dept has a pumper they call the wet dream

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Permalink Reply by Matthew on August 1, 2009 at 12:27am

Really the only one of our trucks which has a nickname is our brush truck, it's a 1984/86? Dodge which has several...quirks. We call it Clank, mostly because of the wide variety of odd noises it makes.