Texas Emergency Medical Servies

[ninjamedic2293]

It is driven by two factors - cost and maneuverability. We think we will save money by switching from a medium duty chassis (which we retire at 250,000 miles) to an F-450 chassis (which will probably have to be retired or remounted at 100,000-150,000 miles). We expect to save 30-50K up front with an unknown increase in maintenance costs. There has also been concern over the maneuverability of our medium duty chassis downtown. To solve this we are moving from a regular cab medium duty to an extended cab F-450. Personally I disagree completely with the thought process however these two units are supposed to be an initial proof of concept to determine whether or not they will work in our system.