Canadian fire trucks are almost always built on US chassis and mostly with American bodies and equipment too. The design and configurations accordingly follow US practices very closely. The same is largely true in most of Central and South America too, with some notable exceptions. For example, Chile - for some reason - uses a lot of French built trucks, Brazil has its own truck chassis and body builders and Argentina has probably the widest variety of trucks, mostly imported second hand from America, European countries even Japan …..
Understandable that Cuba is another exception. Their fire services seem to use just about anything they can lay hands on, including some very old Russian stuff and a wide variety of used trucks from all over.
Understandable that Cuba is another exception. Their fire services seem to use just about anything they can lay hands on, including some very old Russian stuff and a wide variety of used trucks from all over.
Added by Rob Johnson on 05 December 2025.