With no FDNY rigs ahead of us and their overall numbers way down, it still took Seagrave a full year to build and deliver our new Marauder II heavy rescue. IMHO....Seagrave has not been a volume builder in modern times...probably not since they moved to Clintonville from Columbus. Everything is built on site, piece by piece. Not a cab here, a chassis there, an aerial here, then they're all snapped together. Seagrave may be as close to the "old days" of building fire apparatus as anyone. Heck, some of their buildings still date back to the late 1800s. But, of course, this has hurt Seagrave as well. You get what you pay for...and with Seagrave you get a steel tank. But, it won't be built as fast, there won't be a team of rock star engineers, and it won't have the fancy engineering and gizmos. I have worked off nothing but Seagraves my entire career. That said, they HAVE to fall in line with their prices. I've heard about how many they are producing a year...and it isn't pretty. I don't think they want to lose the FDNY business...they do still have the Aerialscopes, Squads, tillers, and high-pressure pumpers coming up. I would hate to see another legend fall, especially one so dear to me.
But, heck, even Pierce is slipping...or the dosage in the Kool-Aid is diluting. Watch...Rosenbauer will overtake them in North American sales...sooner rather than later.
Kent Parrish
Louisville, KY
But, heck, even Pierce is slipping...or the dosage in the Kool-Aid is diluting. Watch...Rosenbauer will overtake them in North American sales...sooner rather than later.
Kent Parrish
Louisville, KY
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