With blizzards, the polar vortex, and every other crummy thing about winter happening in full force across the country, its officially time to gear up, BangShifters. The junk ass weather always presents a business opportunity because someone’s gotta move the snow. Someone’s gotta melt the ice, and someone’s gotta own the right stuff to handle all that stuff. This M1078 is an interesting and completely bad ass way to get your plowing ad sanding business off to the right start. You’ve got a 6.6L Caterpillar engine under the hood making 225hp. You’ve got a 9ft plow on the front and a 4-yard stander on the back.
These trucks were introduced in the 1980s and they are effectively a modern “deuce and a half”. Being that they were built to the standards of the armed forces, they lack creature comforts but they do not lack the good stuff where it counts. The guy selling those said that he sold his small front end loader because this truck has enough guts to push snow into piles high enough that he no longer needed it.
You’ve got power steering in there, heat, a seat that will have your ass numb in 25 minutes, and a central tire inflation system if you need it. The truck does not care about the weight of the sander. Loaded, unloaded, frozen sand or thawed, this thing yaws at the thought of lugging it around.
The ultimate plow rig? We think it may be.
eBay: This M1078 truck is designed to dominate winter, no matter what
