Again, like Taylor, I flat out ask at trade shows and often get honest answers. Here is what I've been told over the past few shows.
Pierce: 1000-1200 a year (including exports)
Rosenbauer: 800 a year (excluding exports)
KME: 600-800 a year
Ferrara: 500-600 a year
E\-One: 400 a year
Spartan ERV: 300-400 a year
Smeal: 250-300 a year
Sutphen: as said above, around 220 a year (as high as 300 before)
HME: 200-300 a year
Seagrave: around 80 last year, on pace for 50 this year (but all high dollar rigs)
I've also been told Toyne and 4 Guys are 75-100 a year.
Builders like Alexis, Custom Fire, Marion, Midwest, Precision, Spencer, and SVI are between 30-50 a year.
Most of BME's deliveries are comparatively low dollar - wildland and brush trucks. West Coast builders like Westates, West-Mark, Hi-Tech, Burton's, ect are in the 25-50 range. Further east, you have builders like Southeast (formerly Wynn) who do around 25 a year. Summit only does about 15 a year, but most of them are high dollar custom rescues, rescue-pumpers, and industrial rigs. Bluegrass does about 15 year, mostly tankers. There are scores of other regional builders in the 15-20 range.
All that said, the market used to report about 5000 new apparatus a year. The industry has cried that number has dropped as low as 3000 recently. I've always heard that Pierce had about 20% of the market share to itself, the rest of the top 15 manufacturers shared another 60%, and the everyone else fought over the remaining 20%. So, if add up all the numbers above...somebody is lying. LOL.
I still think my top 10 is pretty solid, ranking wise...and Seagrave could be swapped out with Toyne or 4 Guys. But, as mentioned, Spartan ERV is bleeding bad. Who knows how long they'll survive. And I know for fact that Pierce has been in trouble...Oshkosh just reported horrific sales numbers with government contracts and Pierce sharing quite a bit of the blame. I think most people on here seem to agree their quality isn't what it used to be. I can see Rosenbauer overtaking them sooner rather than later. If KME continues their great quality improvement, I can see them also passing Pierce one day.
Kent Parrish
Louisville, KY
Pierce: 1000-1200 a year (including exports)
Rosenbauer: 800 a year (excluding exports)
KME: 600-800 a year
Ferrara: 500-600 a year
E\-One: 400 a year
Spartan ERV: 300-400 a year
Smeal: 250-300 a year
Sutphen: as said above, around 220 a year (as high as 300 before)
HME: 200-300 a year
Seagrave: around 80 last year, on pace for 50 this year (but all high dollar rigs)
I've also been told Toyne and 4 Guys are 75-100 a year.
Builders like Alexis, Custom Fire, Marion, Midwest, Precision, Spencer, and SVI are between 30-50 a year.
Most of BME's deliveries are comparatively low dollar - wildland and brush trucks. West Coast builders like Westates, West-Mark, Hi-Tech, Burton's, ect are in the 25-50 range. Further east, you have builders like Southeast (formerly Wynn) who do around 25 a year. Summit only does about 15 a year, but most of them are high dollar custom rescues, rescue-pumpers, and industrial rigs. Bluegrass does about 15 year, mostly tankers. There are scores of other regional builders in the 15-20 range.
All that said, the market used to report about 5000 new apparatus a year. The industry has cried that number has dropped as low as 3000 recently. I've always heard that Pierce had about 20% of the market share to itself, the rest of the top 15 manufacturers shared another 60%, and the everyone else fought over the remaining 20%. So, if add up all the numbers above...somebody is lying. LOL.
I still think my top 10 is pretty solid, ranking wise...and Seagrave could be swapped out with Toyne or 4 Guys. But, as mentioned, Spartan ERV is bleeding bad. Who knows how long they'll survive. And I know for fact that Pierce has been in trouble...Oshkosh just reported horrific sales numbers with government contracts and Pierce sharing quite a bit of the blame. I think most people on here seem to agree their quality isn't what it used to be. I can see Rosenbauer overtaking them sooner rather than later. If KME continues their great quality improvement, I can see them also passing Pierce one day.
Kent Parrish
Louisville, KY
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