Civilian truck

Civilian trucks were trucks whose applications were found in day-to-day work as opposed to military use. Sometimes they are pressed into service in the front line for various purposes. This type of conscription is common on the battlefield and applies to any other civillan device as well.

War Against the GLA

Civilian trucks were mostly used by the United States during humanitarian missions, though on occasion the GLA would take advantage of them too. China, meanwhile, regularly fielded them.

During the operation known later as Defending the Docks saw an American commander charged with protecting a convoy of civilian trucks and escorting them to a nearby warehouse. GLA forces attempted to destroy them, an act against which the unarmed and weakly armored vehicles had no defense against, but their American escorts managed to repel the attackers.

A sneak attack following On the Waterfront saw a GLA infiltration team breaking into and subduing a naval base in the United States. Their ultimate goal was to smuggle chemicals stored in a nearby warehouse out via airlift, and to achieve this they threatened (or manually took control of) several civilian transport trucks in the area.

Generals deployed under China's flag were no strangers to the fragility of such units, as they relied on simple civilian-driven Supply Trucks to gather resources in conflicts. However, for heavier transport duties, they were known to sometimes place the package within a heavy-duty, albeit still civilian-structured, truck. On one such occasion these trucks were entrusted with potent nuclear devices, though they quickly changed hands and were used to destroy the Chinese-aligned GLA splinter cell in the area during Operation: Trojan Horse. Some of these were also scattered rather carelessly around General Tao's base, oddly enough.

Third Tiberium War

While many other conflicts saw the deployment of civilians, the Third Tiberium War had several notable instances of this.

In accordance with Kane's wishes, the research facility containing the final components for the prototype Liquid Tiberium Bomb loaded them into a truck. Though it was likely manned by Nod personnel, its design was very much like those used by civilians. Though the transport was to be airlifted to Temple Prime, where its load would see a final transformation into the most devastating weapon known to man, it was shot down en route by GDI forces. A famed Nod commander was dispatched to first recover the vehicle, and then escort it through the GDI siege base to Temple Prime itself. Despite the relative fragility of its design, it survived both ordeals, and was successfully assembled into a battle-ready weapon that would be detonated not long after.

The subsequent appearance and intervention of the alien Scrin, especially at Munich, left GDI leaders and personnel alike scrambling. Many important research documents and staff were hastily evacuated from GDI's Future-Tech Lab in the area and onto a truck, where a trusted GDI commander led them through the chaos of the attack (and GDI's defensive efforts) to a nearby subway station, where they could be safely evacuated from the area. Their improvised nature did him no favors, however, as the attacks that the convoy suffered led to the fragile civilian trucks breaking down repeatedly.

While GDI was scrambling to coordinate their defenses against the alien threat, the Brotherhood viewed it as an opportunity to gain a key advantage. A nuclear weapons base in the Australian Outback was shipping out three tactical nuclear missiles to a different installation, and the Brotherhood's new leader, Killian Qatar, saw it as an opportunity to hijack them and seize them for themselves. They were transported via a vehicle whose chassis bore a distinct resemblance to those used to evacuate lab personnel in Munich. This time, the trucks were truly driven by civilian operators - after the destruction of the GDI military escorts, they requested that the Brotherhood's forces leave the trucks and their drivers unharmed.