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Your Biggest Tanker?
So my department has a 4500 gallon tri-axle monster of a tanker that we have given the nickname "the whale." I want to know if anyone has anything bigger. I dont know how to upload a photo from a differant computer but if you check out my page there is a pix of it somewhere. You will notice it (the big white truck) LOL
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Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on
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No disrespect to you or your airtankers Tom, but I've said it before and I will say it again... until county dispatch changes our "tanker box alarms" to "tender box alarms"... I'm callin em tankers
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Permalink Reply by John L. VanAuken on
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Well Dustin you have ours beat by 500 gals, we have a kenworth tender with a drop axle that only a few including my self can drive. For one it dosent have jakes, and is way to fast on the road to have just anyone drive. Our dept has decided to get a slightly smaller one that all of us can drive and will be a little safer. I told em when take it out of service, I want it since I am the one who drives it the most, kinda got attached to it. Although as the story goes for tender drivers, were not going to put out the fire just deliveren it, so no need in tryen to beat a nascar record getten there. Our other and newest tender is a freightliner and is only a 2000 gal I think, keep forgeten dont drive it as much. Well 4500 man thats a lot how dose it handle, and drive, is it standerd or auto. Both of ours are auto shifts, the old tender was a 13 speed freightliner that we did have the 4000 gal tank on, they got rid of it before I got on with the dept. Well take care have fun and stay safe.
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Well John... you must have not read my blog about tanker safety lol... I talked about the very things you just asked lol... The tanker sits on an 85 chassis that is the toughest truck I have ever driven. The truck has a manual transmission with a split differential that only adds to the confustion while trying to jam the gears. Once your outa first, using the clutch is pretty much useless so timing is everything. The truck rides terrible and is very uncomfortable to drive. As you can tell... its definatly not my favorite truck to drive or even ride in. But hey... it gets the job done and neighboring dept's know they have some serious water comin when they ask for a tanker assist.
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Permalink Reply by T on
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My suburban type department automatically responds w/ 2 other rural departments. Lots of square miles w/o water supply. All 3 departments went together and purchased 4 semi tractors w/ trailors. Smallest tanker is 5800 gallons, largest of the 4 is 6400 gallons. The other 2 are 6200 gallons each. All of the trailors were originally built milk haulers. Overkill maybe but.......
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Permalink Reply by Robert on
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Sounds like you have plenty of water. No such thing as overkill when it comes to water supply and square miles to cover.
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Permalink Reply by Chris on
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NSWFB bulk water tanker.
Our pumpers carry 2000L, and what we call tankers I think are the equivelent to your brush trucks eg.
Izuzu 4x4 "TANKER". These are used by NSWFB for urban / bush interface area's, hold 3000L.
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Permalink Reply by Matt Mason on
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This is our Tanker at Greenville in Indiana it is a 2300 gallon Mack also known as Mack Attack
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Permalink Reply by paul michael komandt on
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I like this another HME on the site. Neighbors in middlefeild as a beast.
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Your tanker 1 is a retired Air Force fuel truck. Looks nice to see one painted red instead of dark green without a shine.
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just a question for you. Do you fill tank direct or through the pump?
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Forgot to say they use this as a first out on fires not in their hydrant area. 3,000 gallons, same size dump tank, 2000 gal pump. Now thats a huge engine.
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We run a 2,000 gal on an International chassis. One rear dump only!. we use a tri-county water shuttle if we need alot of water, and it gets us 80,000 gallons on scene in approx. 15-20 minutes. we have no hydrants and fill a 3,000 gal tanker in under 3 minutes! All tankers in the shuttle have twin 3" direct tank fills on the rear.
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