Custom builds are worth the wait — but sometimes a department doesn’t have a wait in it. A totaled rig, a failed inspection, or a budget that has to be spent this fiscal year all call for the same answer: a truck that already exists. That’s what our stock program is for. Here’s a look […]
The water tank is the one component on a fire truck that works every single call — and for decades, tanks were also the component most likely to quietly rust from the inside out. That’s why modern apparatus has moved to copolymer polypropylene, and why we fabricate our own tanks in-house. Here’s what makes poly […]
In the upper Midwest, the first hard freeze doesn’t send a warning. October is the month to get every rig in the fleet winter-ready — because a frozen pump or a dead battery bank discovered at 2 a.m. in January is a preventable emergency. Work through this checklist truck by truck. Water and pump systems […]
Every spec sheet leads with two numbers: gallons per minute and pounds per square inch. But what do those numbers actually tell you — and how much pump does your department really need? Here’s the short course. GPM is volume, PSI is pressure Gallons per minute measures how much water the pump moves; pressure is […]
A wildland brush truck is the hardest-working rig in most rural fleets — and one of the easiest to get wrong. Spec it too light and it won’t survive the terrain. Spec it too heavy and you lose the maneuverability that makes a brush truck worth having. Here’s how we walk departments through the process. […]
