Philadelphia question

[chief60]

They went out to bid for new tillers. If I had to bet, they will get a Spartan chassis with an LTC body identical to the other LTIs they have. The spec even states it wants them as close to those as possible. If they accept the design and test the unit, they will buy more. The spec has some unusual features including it has to be delivered and tested by the department with the full equipment load and crew. Axles have to be weighed individually with full load at Philadelphia. They must have had some significant issues with the Pierces and the design/compartment layout.

Not a fan of the spartan cabs; cramped back step.
Plenty of issues with the pierce tillers

It looks like they want the Metro Star 94" cab. The Arrow XT is 94" as well so either Pierce fixes the trailer design issues or its going to be the Spartan, unless they ignore their very tight specs. Basically, it states build us a tiller like we want it and then we will load it and test run it and if we like it, we will pay for it. I am very interested to see how much the price goes up from the current Pierces to this one.

The kme tillers where pretty much the same spec as the Alf/lti they where getting

KME doesn't have a 94" cab, so they have limited their choices to the Spartan Metrostar and Pierce Arrow XT or they take exception to their own bid requirements.