so is it just the brigades that do a huge amount of incidents a year that deserve a new appliance. isnt it right to theink that every brigade should have the right to the best appliance to protect their community. i know we are only a couple of years away from ours being 20 years old and we never get in to double figures for incidents. but ill be puttin my hand up for a new truck.
Of course, but what about a few brigades that are going around? Hundreds of incidents a year, all but one of their trucks are older than 15 years, a few are far older than 20 years . You can't suggest that your brigade that in 30 years will not have the same work load as other brigades have in a single year, deserves a new appliance. You must be mad.
As you say, the "Best" appliance to protect their community. I'm pretty sure you could easily do with a 10 year old retread.
It seems 5-7 years for all pumper/24P/34P appliances to be moved along...so even the Type 2's will eventually move along down the chain.
But i asked a random, whats a type 2 pumper..."eh, whats that?...all i know is 14,24,34,24P,34P...must be a collectors edition truck!"
Getting moved along a chain is great, the problem is that the chain needs to start in the correct postion...
As far as the "Type 2" pumper, don't we in the CFS just call them a pumper? If we are going to adopt another services naming scheme then it looks like the 34P's just became Type 1's!
