Fat Truck Releases Full Lineup of Amphibious Vehicles

Where pickup trucks stop is where Zeal Motor says their Fat Truck models pick up.

Designed by Canadian-based Zeal Motor, Fat Truck vehicles are designed to transport people, materials, and tools to jobsites through just about any condition.

Some sites are easy, and then some sites are boggy, muddy, steep, swampy, treacherous, or covered in snow and ice. A four-wheel-drive pickup will get you most of the way there, and a Fat Truck will ensure you and your equipment get all the way there, the company says.

With several upgrades to its 2.8 pickup and wagon series and the release of the more compact 2.4 pickup model and larger 8x8 hauler and wagon model this year, the company now has a full series of industrial off-road vehicles available to contractors.

Fat Truck vehicles have a ground clearance of nearly 2 feet and are also amphibious. While slower in water, the various models allow utility contractors to traverse areas a regular pickup truck would not allow.

Since their debut in 2019, Fat Truck vehicles can now be found from the snow-covered mountain areas of Alaska and Canada to the swamps of Louisiana and beyond.Fat Truck“It's really the extension of a pickup truck,” said Amine Khimjee, Zeal Motor's vice president of sales and marketing. “They're good in mud, snow, hills, really any condition.”

The primary market for these boxy-looking amphibious vehicles with large high-traction tires is right-of-way access for contractors working on power lines, pipeline operations, telecommunications, and first responders on search and rescue operations. Even the military has expressed some interest in the vehicles.