"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 Daniel Peek on March 26, 2013 at 2:09pm

Depending on the condition of the truck at any given point, Rescue 2 is sometimes referred to as a POS, haha.

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Permalink Reply by Jake Massey on April 7, 2013 at 8:38pm

We had an old tanker that we called The Turtle. This tanker was slow as all get out and seemed to want to roll over on you any time you took a turn but man it would go anywhere.