Smeal Picks Up LTI.......

[hondok]

That is because it didn't happen that way.  The only NQ designs used by Pierce are the SkyArm and the SkyBoom.  The PAL and PAP have ALWAYS been Pierce designs.  The PAP (Pierce Aerial Platform) replaced the L.T.I. platforms on Pierce apparatus beginning in 1985.  It was constructed by Structural Fabrications, Inc. in Pennsylvania for a few years, then moved to Kewaunee, WI after Pierce purchased S.F.I.  Kewaunee Engineering also produced the PAL.  Kewaunee was purchased in 1998 and the name changed to Kewaunee Fabrications.  Eventually, production was moved to Appleton.

And, as Paul Harvey used to say, "now you know the rest of the story...Good Day!"