Renault VIGI1 (2)This truck's carrying materials from exhaustion and disengagement may be required when significant weather. In some cases it may be necessary to tow a dinghy on a trailer light, especially during the floods of the Seine and Marne rivers.
Seen here in august 2012.
Picture added on 06 August 2012 at 18:12
As experienced very recently, Paris is quite often exposed to serious flooding risks, and the BSPP has increasingly added dedicated flood control units like this van in recent years.
Just as Lambert says, this can carry a small boat on its roof and/or pull one along on a trailer...
Added by Rob Johnson on 23 February 2018.