Wants and Wastes on a new Truck??

We got one ordered, have a pre-construction meeting in a few days. For us this is a multiuse rig with the only difference from our standard configuration is 4 wheel drive, smaller pump and a little less water, 650 instead of 1000. It’s an International 2 door 4X4, 1000gpm pump and roll, 20gal foam, nothing fancy. For the lack of a better term this is our brush/rescue truck. This rig will cover everything but structure fires, there it will serve as water supply loaded with LDH.

My questions to you will be;
What is the best gadget you can’t do without?
What was the biggest waste of money?

Before you question the 2 door, we roll a heavy rescue on all calls.

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Permalink Reply by Trainer on January 7, 2009 at 9:34am

Yes on the water supply for a structure fire, first attack will come from our eng 3, 1500gal min, 1000gal water; this truck will lay LDH to feed it. This is a rescue/pumper but as I’ve said before, with the exception of a spare set of jaws that it will carry, the rest of our equipment is carried on a heavy rescue; our SOG is to roll this on every call.