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Permalink Reply by Mick Mayers on February 2, 2008 at 9:49am

Time to revamp this. We've added twenty-one members to the Truckie Nation since November and that's reason to celebrate. In "talking" with Webchief (what is it when you are commenting back and forth, commenting?) he said that in his "day job", on some sites he has seen as much as one comment for around 3000 views. To me, and the numbers aren't anything other than an interesting observation, it says that there are plenty of us knuckle-draggers out there with interesting things to say and just aren't saying them.

We'd love to hear you tell about your truck company, or what you wish you had for a truck company, or a truck company you saw on TV once, or whatever. Let's make this the place to go to talk about venting, laddering, rescue, or just bustin' stuff up.

Permalink Reply by Dan Horton on February 3, 2008 at 8:41pm

Something I want to mention real quick. Friends, Brothers, fellow knuckle draggers, beware of what they call a "radiant heated ceiling". I guess what it amounts to is a series of wires or whatever running through the ceiling to create heat above. We were operating interior at a residential structure fire last week when the ceiling and part of the roof came down on us. There were 5 of us in the livingroom/kitchen area when it came down (try picturing 5 firefighters trying to get out 1 door). Never saw so damn many wires in all my life and believe me, I didnt let'em slow me down on the way out. The rest of the night we spent cutting wires while trying to do mop up. Be careful...I dont know what it is we can do to spot this kind of thing early but we found out almost too late.

Permalink Reply by Antiquefirelt on March 14, 2008 at 8:07pm

OK, I guess I'll start here as it seems this might be interesting to hear about other guys truck companies. Our department recently bought a midmount tower (93' ALF) STRAIGHT TRUCK!!! Until last year we ran a straight ladder truck. The truck carries 208 ft. of ground ladders, 14 hooks/poles, runs a single tiller bar smoothbore gun, and seats just 4 due to a ridiculous EMS cabinet.

Our dept. covers a mix of industrial, old downtown ordinary construction of mixed occupancy, a bunch of PD's and a retail strip. We hired an apparatus consultant to make sure we were speccing the right piece and all agreed the MM tower was for us. Our two mutual aid ladders are straight sticks, ones a 75' quint and the other a 105' RM stick.