Equipment

Specialty (and odd) fleet vehicles and equipment

May 16, 2016

Outside of your more typical medium-duty and heavy trucks you'll find in fleets and trucking, the NYC Fleet Show is a great place to catch some oddities. What better setting than the site of two World's Fairs last century?

Aaron Marsh

Outside of the more typical medium-duty and heavy trucks you'll find in fleets and trucking, the NYC Fleet Show is a great place to catch some oddities and "other" category equipment. What better setting than the site of two World's Fairs last century?

In Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, you'll find the futuristic observation towers designed by Philip Johnson and Lev Zetlin — you can't go up there these days, but they still look like one could break off like a flying saucer, as in the 1997 hit movie Men In Black (yes, that scene was in Flushing Meadows Park).

The NYC Fleet Show didn't wreck Queens' iconic Unisphere, but Will Smith
and Tommy Lee Jones manage to in this clip below:

About the Author

Aaron Marsh

Before computerization had fully taken hold and automotive work took someone who speaks engine, Aaron grew up in Upstate New York taking cars apart and fixing and rewiring them, keeping more than a few great jalopies (classics) on the road that probably didn't deserve to be. He spent a decade inside the Beltway covering Congress and the intricacies of the health care system before a stint in local New England news, picking up awards for both pen and camera.

He wrote about you-name-it, from transportation and law and the courts to events of all kinds and telecommunications, and landed in trucking when he joined FleetOwner in July 2015. Long an editorial leader, he was a keeper of knowledge at FleetOwner ready to dive in on the technical and the topical inside and all-around trucking—and still turned a wrench or two. Or three.

Aaron previously wrote for FleetOwner.