I will say with our 2004 Pierce MMP we were trained to do a good negative sweep you would have to tilt the truck -5 degrees to the side you were working off of which as unnatural as it looked it was designed to do that. With that being said it takes a lot of time to reset up a truck if you have to go to a negative sweep after using it normally. I would be more concerned if it will hold up to a city like Baltimore's call volume, road conditions, and etc? I can say after 5 years ours did not which is true from other FD's in the state that bought the same mmp's in that time frame. Lots of aerial commandzone issues plus as everyone knows TAK-4 component failures. Also the volume of flow in the waterway is quite restricted based on it's design and not was what it was told to us by the mfg or dealer. Maybe Pierce figured these issues out but time would tell. Our 04 was a great tower when it worked but it's reliability and Pierce not being able to fix it for good was what caused us to stay away from buying another Pierce aerial.
We did have two rmps before the the MMP and they had their own problems as well but we stayed with a mmp for many other valid reasons.
We did have two rmps before the the MMP and they had their own problems as well but we stayed with a mmp for many other valid reasons.
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