Wastelander

The Wastelander is a salvage-yard special: a cab-over truck with welded panels for a body, a bare flatbed and tyres tall enough to drive over a saloon. GTA Online added it with Import/Export in 2016 as a vehicle-recovery truck, and the August 2026 gameplay clips show it in GTA VI.

It carries the MTL badge the series uses for heavy trucks, alongside the Fire Truck and Packer.

Rockstar modelled the Wastelander on the Mongo, the truck that wrenches a safe through Rio in Fast Five. That was a custom build and never a production vehicle, which is why the photo on this page shows a Unimog, the closest thing you can buy. Treat it as a reference for the layout rather than a direct match.

Leonida’s swamps and sand roads suit it better than Los Santos ever did. In GTA Online the flatbed carried a car if you drove one up its ramps, which made it a recovery truck in practice, and a game with tow trucks and swamp buggies in it has room for a flatbed that goes where the roads do not.