Mayor Steve Jones says council chose an old vehicle for a number of reasons. "When you go to buy equipment for this sort of purpose it is very expensive. We went to Victoria and bought this secondhand vehicle for relatively little money. Then council workshop staff rebuilt it from the chassis up, specifically for flood work." (ABC Southern Qld: Peter Gunders)

"When the floods happened here, we were in a serious way," Steve Jones says. "We were cut off from Toowoomba, and cut off from Brisbane. We were left with the resources we had here. In the future we want to be in the best position we can possibly be in, and have the resources to do our own work." (ABC Southern Qld: Peter Gunders)

"We deliberately chose this old Bedford because the British Army used it for many years, and its capabilities through steep situations are quite well known," Steve Jones says. (ABC Southern Qld: Peter Gunders)

The Historic Commercial Vehicle Association of Queensland hold their annual truck show in Gatton. After the 2011 flood profits from the show went to a fund to help the local community. "We directed that money into this vehicle," says Steve Jones. "They're into old vehicles, it's an old vehicle, and it may help save lives." (ABC Southern Qld: Peter Gunders)