"Yankee Joe" truck

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Steve Rooke
Can any of you informed gentlemen tell me how these trucks came to be known as a Yankee Joe? Was this just an Australian nick name. Did other trucks such as the larger GMC have a name?

Steve,
It would seem to be an Aussie nickname, anyone in Europe, looks mystified if you say "Yankee Joe". Up here they are known as "Bl*ckman's Chev" (censored in the interest of PC).
Of course the GMC CCKW is universally known as the "Jimmy", or "Duece and a half".

Richard