Pacific Northwest

[Bryce]

Brian is correct. It's sort of an accident they even wound up being called Trucks in the first place. Redmond was the first one to do it back in 1993 with Truck 16. Back then everybody else in Zone 1 still called them Ladders, so it was a little odd to have Truck 16 in Redmond responding on the same call with Ladder 31 in Woodinville. Within the next year or so all the Zone 1 departments switched to Truck. I remember back in the 2000s Seattle was going to change the name Ladder to Truck, but for some reason that never happened. Then eventually Zone 1 caved and went back to Ladder. Even Tacoma, which had called them Trucks forever, switched to Ladder in the last 10 or so years. Bellevue has dumped the Lightforce terminology, even though Ladder 3 still technically runs as a Lightforce.



Personally, I like Truck better.