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No: 7536 Contributor: TheFireman Year: 2008 Manufacturers: Rosenbauer, Spartan Country: United States of America
Whay they are always putting wedges by the rear wheels? Haven't you got a handbrake?? :)
Added by Stacko on 19 April 2008.
Added by Stacko on 19 April 2008.
Must be an American thing, where there's a blame, there's a claim....
Unless the brake works on the propshaft, which would cause the vehicle to rock back and forth slightly as it pumped water etc.
Added by John Johnstone on 19 April 2008.
Unless the brake works on the propshaft, which would cause the vehicle to rock back and forth slightly as it pumped water etc.
Added by John Johnstone on 19 April 2008.
#1 for Pavel, it is a cover to the Air Conditioning unit. Keeps sticks and such out of it.
#2 for Stacko, We have air parking brakes. No manual handbrake. The wedge is what we call a wheel chock. the theory is if you loose the brakes, the truck won't roll away. There have been stories of apparatus "jumping into gear" and that might slow it down. (Yea, right.)
Added by Thefireman on 20 April 2008.
#2 for Stacko, We have air parking brakes. No manual handbrake. The wedge is what we call a wheel chock. the theory is if you loose the brakes, the truck won't roll away. There have been stories of apparatus "jumping into gear" and that might slow it down. (Yea, right.)
Added by Thefireman on 20 April 2008.
I think that setting Wheel Chocks at the Fire-Scene is SOP [Standard Operating Procedure] for most Fire Departments in Canada and USA - safety measure.
Fuel Oil Delivery trucks have to chock, when pumping to a house or business; and
also when aboard one of our river ferries.
We had a fully laden double-axle dump truck roll slowly backwards off one of our ferries into deep water. It was being used for mobile ballast to enable the ferry to break the ice in the channel. The driver[and owner!] jumped down for a chat with the crew - apparently without setting the air-brake parking brake. It started rolling; and all they could do was watch it roll, and disappear into the icy depths.
Wouldn't want to chance that at a Fire Scene.
Regards,
Added by Pat_R-B on 20 April 2008.
Fuel Oil Delivery trucks have to chock, when pumping to a house or business; and
also when aboard one of our river ferries.
We had a fully laden double-axle dump truck roll slowly backwards off one of our ferries into deep water. It was being used for mobile ballast to enable the ferry to break the ice in the channel. The driver[and owner!] jumped down for a chat with the crew - apparently without setting the air-brake parking brake. It started rolling; and all they could do was watch it roll, and disappear into the icy depths.
Wouldn't want to chance that at a Fire Scene.
Regards,
Added by Pat_R-B on 20 April 2008.
Rosenbauer America Centurion pumper,
1, 250-gpm Hale Q-Max pumps
1, 000-gallon UPF poly water tanks
Rescue-style compartmentation
Spartan MetroStar SFD chassis
Cummins ISC-370 engine
Added by Antoon de Lepper on 20 May 2012.
1, 250-gpm Hale Q-Max pumps
1, 000-gallon UPF poly water tanks
Rescue-style compartmentation
Spartan MetroStar SFD chassis
Cummins ISC-370 engine
Added by Antoon de Lepper on 20 May 2012.
This could have also been a new unit that not got numbered yet. By the looks of it could be either
Added by Chad Barday on 27 December 2012.
Added by Chad Barday on 27 December 2012.
Rosenbauer
Added by Pav on 19 April 2008.