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[firescooby]

We really loved our truck up until this fiasco, and a lot of people I know in the fire service are really down on Sutphen with this issue. I know of many customers who ran away from the product.

 

Coupled with that facility in the East...

 

If the fixes work, the company should be back to normal in a few years. But I'd be lying if I said that as a Captain I didn't have any thoughts in the back of my mind about the main. We count on our equipment as a zero fail for our work, any discrepancy makes you have doubt and doubt isn't good in our business.....just my opinion.

I understand, and I've been a career firefighter for 22 years. I'll die knowing that Sutphen aerials are the strongest in the market (what other ones can flow 4500gpm at 110')?

 

The update makes the SPH a BEAST!! Does that mean the SPH was inferior prior to this?? Absolutely not!! I'm sure Pierce is making improvements to their Tak4. EVERY manufacturer and their products need continual evaluation.