TEXAS RIGS

[Ladder 68]

The E\-One rigs as a whole have held up well. For the abuse some of them get, they bounce back run after run. The one I drive everyday has over 80,000 miles on it and for a '00 still runs strong and pumps like a champ.



The problem with E\-One was NOT the E\-One rigs themselves, it was the dealer service. All apparatus break, there is no 2 ways about it. All I ask, as I was taught, is that if it breaks 20 times fix it 20 times quickly and without excuse.



The Ferrara rigs are actually holding fine as well. The 11 pumpers are assigned to some very busy companies and have only had minor issues as I have been told. There is only 1 FFA pumper in SW Houston that we see and along with the 1st 11 on the East Side, have been doing well. We have one of the 7 FFA trucks and that is a slightly different story. The FFA chassis and body are nice and have been holding up good. The Smeal aerial, while doing its job and not missing a beat, is so different from out previous '01 E\-One Hurricane that the guys don't care for it. In particular the handrail height, aerial width and jack spread.



Just some thoughts.