• Specialty (and odd) fleet vehicles and equipment

    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?
    May 16, 2016

    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:

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    Aaron Marsh

    Aaron Marsh is a former senior editor of FleetOwner, who wrote for the publication from 2015 to 2019. 

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