Scot Trucks were truck chassis manufactured by Atlantic Truck Manufacturing Limited, located in Debert, Nova Scotia.
Atlantic Truck was set up by the Irving Group of Companies in 1972 to provide trucks for their various operations throughout the Maritimes. Irving found that building their own vehicles was a cost saving measure, in that it was cheaper to import and assemble components than it was to pay high import duties on complete trucks. Irving Oil was the primary truck user in the group at that time. They required both large conventional cab trucks for highway transport and smaller trucks for local delivery. Overall, the breakdown of production was 40% for Irving companies, 25% for government, 25% for fire service chassis and 10% for others. Production also included cab-over vocational trucks, conventional over the road tractors, ore haulers and snowplows.
Scot C1FD cabover chassis were used by various fire departments across Canada with bodies by King-Seagrave Ltd., Pierreville Fire Trucks and Pierre Thibault (Canada) Ltd.. CDN Research used Scot chassis to build CFR trucks for export to Iran, Iraq and Venezuela. Two originally destined for Iran were used at Canadian airports.
By the end of the 1970s, the tax advantages to truck assembly had disappeared and Scot ceased production in 1980.
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- Scot King C1FD, accessed 26 Dec 2019
- Scot Trucks by Andrew Totten; https://prezi.com/32efqtgc28so/scot-trucks/ Accessed 26 Dec 2019.
- Truckfax series on Scot trucks, accessed 28 May 2020.