Jeff is correct, the white/red paint scheme is being driven by the broker who is providing a guaranteed "buy back" amount for the wagons and trucks at the end of the lease. While the PGFD white paint scheme goes back to 1977 when they first purchased two Mack CF wagons (one still operating as Foam 12) and two Seagrave SR rear mount ladders, this time in an effort to rebuild the aging apparatus fleet the department is going to try the lease program which has been successfull in Arlington.
It remains to be seen how this will work out in the end, however from a fiscal standpoint the lease program over 7 to 8 years costs less money than outright purchase and so long as the repeat performance takes place at the conclusion of the lease the department should be able to begin a viable apparatus replacement program, which they have not been able to accomplish in the past.
Tom Shand
Hamburg, New York
It remains to be seen how this will work out in the end, however from a fiscal standpoint the lease program over 7 to 8 years costs less money than outright purchase and so long as the repeat performance takes place at the conclusion of the lease the department should be able to begin a viable apparatus replacement program, which they have not been able to accomplish in the past.
Tom Shand
Hamburg, New York
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