St. Louis Metro

[Guest]

Just my two cents on refurbing trucks. In this tight economy, city leaders are trying to get more out of a dollar nowadays. A piece of fire equipment is a big financial investment. By sending these trucks out to be refurbished adds life expectancy to these trucks. Instead of running the wheels off them and replacing them every ten or so years, they can be rebuilt and get another five out of them. Simple economics, fix it before it costs too much. All of us remember the FDNY selling relatively "young" trucks to smaller departments? These departments put a little money into these trucks and alot of them are still roaming around today. The City of Norwich (CT) bought a 1970 Seagrave 100' rear-stick back in the 80's, did a refurb on it, and just recently replaced it. They got 40-plus years out of that rig, that cost them pennies compared to what a new truck goes for. Like I said, just my two cents.