Trucking Magazine – July 2019

http://www.truckingmag.co.uk Summer 2019 TRUCKING 81

Pacific builds
Pacific was established in Vancouver
in 1947 by three ex-Hayes executives.
It was acquired by International
Harvester in 1967, and subsequently
taken over by UK vehicle distributor
Inchcape, which in turn sold Pacific to
US special vehicle builder Crane Carrier.

Production was shut down by

Crane Carrier in 1994 after just one

year’s ownership.

Pacific has been owned by Canadian

engineering group Coast Powertrain

since 2002. Handily for spares and

rebuilds, it has drawings and specs

covering all 2308 new-builds since the

make’s inception.

Successive Pacific design generations

offered 9, 10, 12 and 16-inch deep

channel section chassis – and from

1961, I-beam frame options – and

6x4, 6x6, 8x4, 8x6 and 8x8 drivelines.

Besides logging tractors, Pacific has

built indivisible load prime movers,

oilfield bed-trucks and mining dumpers.

A mountain of a truck for mountainous terrain:

Logging rig pole trailers are piggybacked when

travelling empty

Pacific P-16 logging tractor serial number

2011, built in 1987, on heavy-haulage duty

with a lowboy plant trailer

ABOVE Pacific serial number 29, built in 1951, owned and

restored by Bruce Adams and photographed in Duncan, BC,

in 2009

Engines have typically been Cummins,

Caterpillar or Detroit, with outputs in

the 350-650 bhp range.

Pacific’s flagship logging tractor