Crash Wagon

Crash Wagon is a truck in Neo Tribes.

Sourcebook Description

Special Equipment: Usually includes a towing rig, other equipment varies.

Weapons: None, but fixed mounts and gunports are common modifications.

Notes: Each of these vehicles is an individual creation, build from a bare frame by the owner pack. The actual price depends on very heavily on the actual equipment packed, and whether or not it is bought new, used, or scrounged.

This vehicle, build from a bare truck, is absolutely essential on a nomad run, or any time a pack is changing locations. It has heavily-reinforced shocks, towing gear, and a covered bed big enough for a nomad to repair a motorcycle in, equipped with as complete a workshop and machine shop as the pack can afford.

The main use for this is as a mobile workshop, tow truck and general emergency repair vehicle. As a pack roars down the road, a nomad having vehicle problems pulls to the side of the road, and the crash wagon(s) following the main body of the pack take appropriate action. A car or truck is taken in tow, while a motorcycle is lifted aboard bodily, to be repaired while the crash wagon continues down the road. Since almost any nomad knows his or her own machine intimately, many repairs can be made in a short time with the facilities, spare parts, and tools available aboard the crash wagon. When the bike is repaired, the owner signals the crash truck's driver, who pulls over to the side of the road long enough for the bike to be off-loaded and started. Daring nomads (or those traveling in very dangerous areas) may opt to restart their cycles "on the fly," but this is a rare practice.