"Nicknames" for your apparatus???

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Permalink Reply by John on February 10, 2009 at 7:41am

I personly named our tanker Besie

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Permalink Reply by Bill Deutsch on February 10, 2009 at 8:53am

Three of the four units we run are known by numbers. The fourth is a HUGE pumper we bought used a year ago. This unit is much taller, longer, heavier, and has much greater pump capacity than our other trucks. The difference is magnified by its being our first front-passengers-in-front-of -the-wheels unit. In a matter of days, well before the unit went into service, it became "Big Bertha" and a "She."
A neighboring volunteer company has a tanker that started life as an Army deuce-and-a-half. When that company was refitting the truck they found someone had signed his/her name in an unobtrusive spot in the cab. The new tanker went into service in honor of that long ago soldier as "Sergeant Smith," and used the radio designator "Sarge."

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Permalink Reply by Lt. Caleb French on February 10, 2009 at 1:03pm

We have no nicknames for our current rigs, but we had an 85' Mack pumper that we called "the Mack attack."

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Permalink Reply by BillySFCVFD on February 10, 2009 at 2:20pm

We have a 5/4 ton Kaiser military brush truck that is rarely used, only at hard to access brush fires. It gets neglected except by me. I baby it with maintenance and refer to it as "Sugar Lamb". Sugar Lamb is slow but gets there and fights. TCSS

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Permalink Reply by Cait on February 10, 2009 at 2:27pm

One truck number ends with 22, so we call it the douple duece

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Permalink Reply by Erin T. on February 10, 2009 at 2:37pm

Phoenix Fire has names such as the" Ocho Loco" for Station #8
"The Crazy Train" for Engine 918 and "The Hammer" for Engine 18.

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Brown on February 10, 2009 at 3:54pm

Well in my old department we had a 75ft plat it was yellow so we called it the big banana and the town next to use had three trucks named the blue gooses

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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on February 10, 2009 at 4:19pm

When all is going well or when something acts up or breaks...?? LOL....Believe me there IS a difference......LOL Paul

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Permalink Reply by kyle on February 10, 2009 at 4:22pm

we got a couple our utility truck is "the wennie"cuz its long as hell for a truck and our auxilary brush has a few like "the aborition" and "frankenstin" becuase it has a GM engine and a ford body

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Permalink Reply by Brian D. on February 10, 2009 at 5:05pm

Our 3000 gallon Pumper/Tanker is affectionately known as "Tankersaurus".

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Permalink Reply by Lt. Ballinger on February 10, 2009 at 5:19pm

One of our engines is called "Pete" because it is a Peterbuilt cab and chasis. Our truck company has had names such as "Babe" from Paul Bunyun because it is slow but has enormus pulling power. It was usually referred to as the " Chrome Parade Wagon" because part of the deal when they designed it in 1979, was the manufacturer said they would put chrome rims on it free of charge if they got to use it for an apparatus show before delivery, then after I joined in '92 the truck basically went out for parades and major structures(yea right, Bedrock doesn't burn) only.

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Permalink Reply by jeremy mankin on February 10, 2009 at 10:00pm

we have squadzilla, junkyard dog" our pumper",pos1 "our brush truck" ,and our two tanker's are known as tankzilla 1and 2

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