I'm not sure how many Pierce exports. I believe their numbers are combined, as they are an American company. Rosenbauer America received a contract for nearly 1300 units for Saudi Arabia alone, in 2012. If Pierce counts exports, I don't see why Rosenbauer can't. Then, technically, Rosenbauer is not only #1 in the world, but in America as well.
I've not seen a new delivery from Welch in a few years, not sure he's even still in business. I don't know much about Simon - only photographed one of their rigs. Bluegrass and Summit know their niche. Summit is still family owned and happy building just 15 rigs a year, especially with most of them being complex custom units. They each have very few employees and keep busy year around - Bluegrass by building tanks for other industries and outfitting command vehicles and Summit by doing miscellaneous metal work. Southeast Apparatus (Wynn) is the same - now owned by a couple of Lexington firefighters and happy building just a handful of rural trucks a year.
Kent Parrish
Louisville, KY
I've not seen a new delivery from Welch in a few years, not sure he's even still in business. I don't know much about Simon - only photographed one of their rigs. Bluegrass and Summit know their niche. Summit is still family owned and happy building just 15 rigs a year, especially with most of them being complex custom units. They each have very few employees and keep busy year around - Bluegrass by building tanks for other industries and outfitting command vehicles and Summit by doing miscellaneous metal work. Southeast Apparatus (Wynn) is the same - now owned by a couple of Lexington firefighters and happy building just a handful of rural trucks a year.
Kent Parrish
Louisville, KY
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