Retired Co-op Vehicles Report for New Duties

A donation from Carteret-Craven Electric Co-op to Cooperativa Electrica de los Santos in Costa Rica was one of the first co-op trucks in the country to have automatic transmission. (Photo By: Juan Alberto Castro Duran)

Mission Regan’s Josh Willis checks out a 2009 Ford F-150, a donation from the fleet of CoServ in Corinth, Texas. Mission Regan’s previous truck was totaled in an accident. (Photo By: Ken Oltmann/CoServ)

Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Electric Co-op Training Center’s John Medved (left) and Alan Scruggs show off the school’s new wheels, a donation from Northern Neck Electric Co-op in Warsaw, Virginia. Apprentices will use the truck for hands-on training. (Photo By: Jeff Ferrebee)

In July, Unit 71 will head to the front of the class at the Power Line Worker Training School at Southside Virginia Community College. The line truck was a donation from Southside EC in Crewe, Virginia. (Photo By: Lauren Irby)

Every other year, San Patricio Electric Co-op in Sinton, Texas, auctions off retired vehicles to fire departments in its nine-county service area. The Tynan Volunteer Fire Department had the winning bid for this Chevy Silverado. (Photo By: Brittany Williams)

In Haiti, line crews at the USAID Pilot Project for Sustainable Electricity Distribution program have an easier time maintaining the distribution system, thanks to this 2002 Freightliner FL80 digger derrick from Adams-Columbia Electric Cooperative in Friendship, Wisconsin. (Photo Courtesy of NRECA International)

When SECO Energy’s Kenny Rodrigue (third from left) returned from a mission trip to Haiti, he led an effort at the co-op last year to donate late-model service and pickup trucks and a reel stand to the Caribbean island country’s Caracol Community Electrification Program. (Photo Courtesy of SECO Energy)

Three of Basin Electric Power Co-op’s former pickup trucks now report for duty at the Wilton Fire Protection District. Over time, firefighters improved the F-450 engines and painted the exteriors from white to—what else?—red. (Photo Courtesy of Basin Electric Power Cooperative)