Jason Ward is not your typical tot who hates going to bed.

This 3-year-old loves going to bed. That’s probably because he’s got the coolest room of any pre-schooler around.

His bed is a sophisticated replica fire truck, with all the gadgets, including a full pump panel built with dials and pull knobs from an old fire truck.

It’s got a steering wheel, radio scanner and the bed is topped by a strobe light.

“The switch panel controls all of the lights on top as well as a siren sound that was stolen out of an old toy fire truck he had broken,” according to a Reddit post by Jason’s dad, George Ward.

Ward, 31, is a firefighter in Palatka, Fla., in Putnam County, an hour’s drive south of Jacksonville. When his marriage broke up, he took sole custody of Jason and moved from South Carolina to Florida.

Ward admitted the first year alone with Jason was a tough one. Soon, however, Ward bought a house for the two of them.

Ward noticed that whenever his son tagged along with him as he went to meetings, Jason wanted to play on the fire trucks.

His toys were all fire trucks too.

So Ward, who has other family involved in emergency services, came up with the idea of building a fire truck bed for his son.

“With his birthday coming up, I figured I would build him an awesome bed,” Ward said.

With help from his father, Ward spent weekends putting the bed together over a three-month period.

The fire-truck bed has all the gadgets, including a radio scanner, so Jason can listen to dispatch.

Jason’s favourite part of the bed is the steering wheel.

“You can’t get him away from the steering wheel,” Ward told the Toronto Star. “He wants to drive the truck.”

Soon after Ward posted the photos on Reddit, more than 2,000 people commented, some calling him “Father of the Year” for his efforts, Ward said.

Some Reddit commenters have told him: “I wish my father had done something like that for me when I was young.”

Jason has even taken the photos of his bed to his preschool.

“All the kids went nuts,” Ward said.

As a single father, Ward has found one aspect of parenting that has been made easier because of the fire-truck bed.

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“He’s really excited to go to bed,” Ward said. “The first couple of weeks, it was hard for him to go to sleep. He would be playing with the radio or the steering wheel.”

On the other hand, there’s another aspect that makes his parenting job harder.

“I can’t send him to his room to punish him,” Ward said with a laugh.