Freightliner EZ Pack Galion Super Hopper Rear Loader

Here is a truck that took a lot of planning and effort. Mike and I originally found this truck while driving down I-5 in february. After going to the trailer park and talking with the people in the office, we learned that the trailer park collects their own garbage. Sadly as we had a schedule we didn't get the chance to film it. Some months later though, Alex and Mike found themselves in the trailer park again early one monday morning. However the drivers and helpers wouldn't let them film until the owner of the trailer park was contacted. They ended up leaving and that was it until just a few weeks ago. I knew I would be going down to Northern California to visit some family and thought that on the way I would try and stop to film this truck. Not wanting to have the same outcome that Alex and Mike did, I called ahead to the office to try and talk to the owner. Sadly the first time I called the owner wasn't in the office, but the lady at the desk took down my name and number. That was on a thursday and I was leaving for Norcal that following monday so time was of the essence. Not hearing back from them, I called the next day which was a friday around 2 or 3. Once again the owner wasn't in but I spoke with the lady again who remembered me from the day before. She had talked to the owner and gotten his okay for me to film. She gave me all the information and routes and such. Being extremely excited to film such an old truck, I told Mike and Alex. Seeing as they were free, they made the journey up to Norcal and filmed the truck with me, and it turned out to be quite the fun little trip!
Now onto the truck. This truck was actually a custom job done by the owner of the trailer park. He bought the EZ pack and the original chassis and bought a second chassis, which so happened to be this freightliner. The owner then took the body of the EZ pack, scrapped the original chassis, and mounted it on this late 80s to early 90s freightliner. No one knows for sure if the freightliner used to be a semi that was made straight frame and no one knows what the original chassis on the EZ pack used to be. The EZ pack body was made probably in the mid to late 60s, so it definitely classifies as a "classic refuse truck". Overall this truck was extremely unique, and I ended up getting 3 total videos of this beast. The rest of the videos will be seen in a few years. Mike and Alex will have their videos to upload sometime in the near future so look forward to those! I really hope you enjoy this video as a lot of planning and effort went into it! Special thanks to the crew of the truck, Mike and Alex for the transportation, and of course the owner and lady at the trailer park for making this video possible! Enjoy!!
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