When the nearest hydrant is miles away, the water rides with you. Rosenbauer builds tankers two ways — on the Commander custom chassis or on the commercial chassis of your choice — with the dump-valve and portatank package your response area demands.
A tanker (mobile water supply apparatus) exists to shuttle water where hydrants can’t. Rosenbauer approaches it from two directions so departments only buy the truck they actually need.
Custom Chassis Tankers ride on the Rosenbauer Commander cab-and-chassis — high horsepower, room for a big midship pump, rescue-style bodies and full pumper-tanker capability when the tanker also has to work as an engine.
Commercial Tankers put a purpose-built water body on the commercial chassis of your choice — International, Freightliner, Peterbilt, Kenworth — with an efficient PTO pump. Maximum water, sensible cost.
Every build is engineered to NFPA 1900 for mobile water supply, baffled for safe handling, and configured with the dump-valve and drop-tank hardware that fits how your department dumps and drafts.
Tell us your target flow, shuttle distance and drop-tank plan. Heiman will lay out a custom-chassis or commercial build with the tank size, pump and dump valves to match.
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The Commander custom cab under a tanker body — for departments that want maximum pump, a true pumper-tanker, or a rescue-style tanker on one chassis.
A purpose-built water body on the commercial chassis you prefer — the efficient, value-focused way to put the most gallons on the road.
Every Commander custom cab-and-chassis under a custom-chassis tanker is assembled at the Rosenbauer Motors plant in Wyoming, Minnesota — a facility entirely owned by Rosenbauer America. One manufacturer, from the chassis up.
Speccing a pumper-tanker? Rosenbauer N & NH pumps are available and integrated in-house — sized to the flow you need, from a modest PTO pump to a full midship pump. Other major pump brands are available too, so we can match whatever your fleet already runs.
Pumper-tanker readyTwo ways to build the body on your tanker — the premium extruded EXT, or the value-focused formed FX. Pick the construction that fits your budget and service life.
The flagship Rosenbauer body — bolted, modular extruded-aluminum construction that is corrosion-proof and repairable panel by panel, backed by a lifetime transferable warranty.
A welded, formed body in aluminum or stainless steel — a proven, value-focused build with full-height, full-width compartments.
Every tanker Heiman delivers is built to the mobile water supply requirements of NFPA 1900 — the consolidated standard that now folds in NFPA 1901 for automotive fire apparatus.
Certified capacity, combined if multiple tanks. A tank over 1,750 gal classifies the rig as a tanker regardless of pump.
Weather-resistant, enclosed compartment space for the required tanker equipment complement.
Dedicated to 2½″ or larger fire hose; two 3.5 ft³ areas when 1½″ preconnects are fitted.
Or 15 ft of supply hose when a fire pump is installed, so the tanker can draft and relay.
Not required on a pure water mover; if fitted, the pump meets full pumper criteria (PTO or midship).
Line and dump configurations per standard — 10″ dump valves and fast fill connections spec’d to your operation.
NFPA 1901 (Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus) has been consolidated into the comprehensive NFPA 1900. Figures shown are the standard’s minimums for mobile water supply apparatus; Heiman and Rosenbauer build to those minimums and well beyond.
A tanker is only as fast as it can dump and refill. Rosenbauer offers the full range of dump-valve and drop-tank hardware.
Every dump-valve style and location, plus the drop-tank (portatank) storage options — spec the setup that fits how your department dumps and drafts.
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The answers to these shape the whole build. Work through them with your crew and bring them to the table — we’ll steer you to the right tanker.
Custom chassis or commercial. Tell us how you move water and we’ll build the truck around it.
