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A close look at a single rig, tool, or build line.
A pair of frame rails cut for one truck, 11 assembly stations and a shift meeting before the work starts. Pierce opened up its chassis line in Appleton, Wisconsin, and it explains a lot about lead times.
Dallas Fire-Rescue is finishing a six-month test of a battery-electric Rosenbauer PANTHER 6x6 at Love Field's Station 21. The trial should show whether an electric crash truck can stay as ready as a diesel.
Rosenbauer and MAN built a battery-electric aerial that weighs under 16 tonnes, light enough for German set-up areas that keep heavier ladders out. The first one went to the North Rhine-Westphalia fire institute at Interschutz 2026.
Sutphen's second tractor-drawn aerial gives up four feet of reach to come in nearly four feet shorter than its big brother. Asheville, North Carolina, bought the first one.
Before a Rosenbauer RT went to work at Hachioji Fire Station, it spent three weeks in acceptance testing in Austria under Japanese inspectors and Tokyo Fire Department officers. Hachioji wanted it for the day Mount Fuji drops ash on western Tokyo.