Pierce or Seagrave

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Permalink Reply by Jamie on July 23, 2007 at 4:03pm

our department has had very good luck with kme and smeal . looking into another new attack pumper and most are pushing toward smeal . very good service from them

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Permalink Reply by Terry Lambert on July 25, 2007 at 6:23pm

My one department uses Pierces, and the other one I am with has 1 Pierce and a Spartan.

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Permalink Reply by David E. Stokes on July 25, 2007 at 6:45pm

Well, in this area, Pierce is big with a larger department in our area. Being a smaller department we always had to go with commercial pumpers. We have 2 E-Ones and a KME w/International cabs. We just recently bought a 2006 Rosenbauer custom Rescue/Pumper and are totally amazed with this piece of apparatus. It is our first custom cab and we will not go back to commercial. We looked at Pierce, E-One, American LaFrance, Sterling and Marion along with Rosenbauer. Ferrara is gaining poppularity in our region also.

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Permalink Reply by Bob on July 26, 2007 at 10:52am

My profile pic is with an 89 Pierce Lance that was donated to us from Milford CT after Katrina. It was the best we'd had, and that includes our "new" stuff from E-One.

My Seagrave and ALF experience dates back to the 70's, so I really can't make an informed decision.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Sheldon on August 7, 2007 at 6:28am

Pierce all the way!

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Permalink Reply by Scottie on February 8, 2008 at 11:45pm

Our department purchased a custom built 75' Ladder Truck in 2002. Its a Marion/Spartan and we are extremely happy with it. It is the pride of our department and the envy of many around us. We travel 50-75 miles for mutual aid calls with this. Partially because the larger towns in the area refuse to leave their districts for another city and we are the closest around. They sent us video of them actually putting our truck together...I believe we have over 12 hours of footage. They were very genourous to us with not only promotional items (hats, coats, calendars, koozies, mugs, thermos'), but were very easy to work with during the building process and wanted to make SURE that this truck was built the way we wanted it. I would suggest to ANYONE considering the purchase of a new truck to contact their local rep and if close enough to the area, take your guys that are going to be using it and take a tour of their facilities and meet their people. You won't be displeased.

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