SURVEYOR1:PARTII
By Bruce W. Smith
L
and surveyors are an elite
group faced with more
driving challenges than
most occupations in the heavy
construction world.
They can be faced with surveying jobs in an urban environment
one day and find themselves
hacking and cutting their way
through a roadless forest the next.
Reaching a jobsite can be easy
one day, and the next it requires
all their off-road driving skills and
experience to get there and back.
That's why surveyors' pickups
play such a critical role in the
job; not only do these trucks
need to be ready for any driving
challenge, they also need to have
a way to keep very expensive
electronic surveying equipment
safe and secure.
Such trucks also need to be
capable of towing ATV trailers, so when the road ends, the
surveyors can flag lines the road
builders and site-prep contractors' heavy equipment operators
will follow.
We are building Surveyor 1 to
be just that truck.
In the last issue we road tested
our 2013 Ram 2500HD Crew Cab
4x4 to see how it stacked up
in stock form, and introduced
the title sponsors: Mobil Delvac and Ram Commercial Truck.
Now the fun begins as we start
customizing it with aftermarket
accessories to meet the land
surveyor's work needs.
HEAVYDUTY
BLACK STEEL
To make this workhorse Ram 2500
diesel an even more refined, versatile, efficient, powerful tool for
surveyors, we need to get rid of
the wimpy OE bumpers and add a
few basic off-road "neccessories."
Fab Fours makes a number of
different heavy-duty pickup bum-
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