Smeal Picks Up LTI.......

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With Smeal releasing their S450 and S600 at FDIC (granted, it's produced by FFA), it seems unusual that they would want to re-release the ALF cab.  

 

Smeal's sales are strong with the Spartan cab, and I believe that some more S-series cabs will be hitting the streets in the coming months (the only one I know of is in service in Columbus, OH).  I'm not sure how much ROI they'd have by putting an ALF-esque cab back on the streets, unless they want to divest themselves of Spartan chassis - something I think would be highly unlikely at this point.

Besides the above points, the ALF chassis REALLY seemed to catch a lot of flak for all of their issues.  There were a lotof late-model ALF chassis rigs on the used market, mostly due to issues that were never solved with the chassis.  When we were shopping for a used aerial a couple years ago, there were tons of ALF chassis units compared to others because departments were unloading them. Three local departments run Eagle chassis and all have been terrible from a reliability standpoint.  Countless builders that built on them before ALF pulled the plug on the body builders all said the same thing about the chassis being nothing but trouble...