Pierce Dash CF

[Roto-Ray]

I have knowledge of two major orders coming in from East Coast departments for CF's, so Wichita is simply the first of the large orders that I anticipate will be coming in for the CF.

 

As npfd stated, the Dash CF uses a remote-mounted radiator location - you can see the radiator and many other features of the cab from it's introduction at FDIC in this thread.

 

The pump powered by a REPTO, not a standard PTO.  This means that the pump shaft is spinning every second that the engine is on.

 

As for the PUC, as the others have said, this is a design to allow for additional compartment space through a more compact pump panel (located behind the first roll-up door) and discharge/intake panels.  One of our local Pierce reps showed me documetation about a year ago that stated that as of that day, they'd sold 611 of the PUCs - who knows how much that number has grown in that amount of time.

 

Of our 20-engine fleet at work, we have one PUC that we use as a rescue engine.  It was one of the very early PUCs built, and if we could go back and do it again, there would be a lot of things we'd change.