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“Pack me up and watch me go-go!" and "Fetch/pick up and deliver! Fetch/pick up
and deliver!”

―Packer's catchphrases

Packer the Delivery Truck
Appearance
First appearance	Packer's First Day (Series 13, 2006)
Last appearance	Roley and the Fox (Series 18, 2011)
Creator(s)	Laura Beaumont Paul Larson
Voice Actors
UK voice actor	Rob Rackstraw
US voice actor	Lorelei King
Overview
Nickname(s)	Powerhouse Packer (by Scoop)
Gender	Male
Owner	Farmer Pickles
Residence	Sunflower Valley (formerly) Fixham Harbour
Technical Details
Machine type	Semi-trailer lorry
Year built	1998

Packer is a red semi-trailer lorry who belongs to Farmer Pickles and uses his trailers to make deliveries all over Sunflower Valley and later Fixham Harbour.

Biography

Packer is friends with Scrambler and Dodger, who first befriended each other in The Three Musketrucks. Packer also returned as a recurring character in Ready, Steady, Build!. Packer speaks with a muffled Lancashire accent in the UK dub, and a Southern drawl in the US dub, like Gripper and Grabber.

Personality

Packer is very friendly and also very determined. He can get cocky at some times, but is always on the go when a delivery is to be made.

Basis

Packer resembles a 1998 Freightliner FL50 semi-trailer lorry.

Appearances

• Project: Build It
• Ready, Steady, Build!

Project: Build It Series 13 - Packer's First Day (debut) and The Bob House Series 14 - Mr. Bentley's Big Parade, Packer's Big Delivery, Muck's Mootastic Dairy, Roley the Green Cat, Put-It-Together Bob, The Three Musketrucks and Dodger's Dairy Disaster Series 15 - Roley Brings the House Down, Muck's Machine Wash, Lofty's Comet, Lofty the Lifeguard, Go, Mr. Bentley, Go, Star Struck Spud, Fantastic Flex, Packer's Trailer Trouble, Scoop's Best Team Ever and Spud and the Hotel (cameo) Series 16 - Radio Bob (cameo), Spud the DJ, Silent Scoop and Lofty's Banana Tree Specials Race to the Finish (2007)

Ready, Steady, Build!

• Main Series - Scoop's Sea Rescue (mentioned), Scrambler Gets Clean and Roley and the Fox
• The Legend of the Golden Hammer - Muck and the Old School Wall
• The Big Dino Dig - Scoop and the Roller Coaster and Roley and the Impossible Bump

Audio Files

Horns

First used	Last used	Sound Effect
Series 13	Series 16
Ready, Steady, Build!	Ready, Steady, Build!

Trivia

• Packer's cab was likely recycled from that of Skip.
  • Contrary to popular belief, at least one of Skip's models had survived even after Packer's introduction, though it was recycled in 2010 after being thrown out of HiT Storage.
• He is one of the five male machines to be voiced by a female in the US dub, like Roley, Lofty, Benny and Scratch.
• Packer’s Project: Built It! horn sound was reused for Lofty in the reboot series, which is actually a generic stock sound effect heard in many other forms of media. Packer's Ready, Steady Build! horn sound is also a generic stock sound effect heard in many other forms of media.
  • The horn would later be used for Muck in the reboot series.
• In the US dub, his voice resembles the one of a young boy.
  • While in the UK dub, Packer's voice sounds very similar to Kermit the Frog (even though they’re voiced by different actors; Packer is voiced by Rob Rackstraw and Kermit by Jim Henson, Steven Whitmire and Matt Vogel).
• While Packer has the same name in many dubs, Packer has a different one in a few dubs:
  • In the Finnish version, Packer is called "Pate".
  • In the Hebrew version, Packer is called "Pecker" (פקר).
  • In the Catalan version, Packer is called "Robust".
  • In the Slovenian version, Packer is called "Peter".
  • In the Croatian version, Packer is called "Skupljac", which is Croatian for "collector".

References

Sunflower Valley

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Can-Do Crew

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