Caporegime
is this one of the new scania appliances? do you have onboard CCTV?
Yes its a Scania R Series.
Nice photo's , surprised they don't allow you aircon!
is this one of the new scania appliances? do you have onboard CCTV?
I know it's just "a fire truck" but ya gotta any pics of the outside?
5.62 mpg in a truck!!! Very nice.
Never heard of this, is it cctv? Our new one has 7 cameras on it recording constantly to a hard drive.Looks cool. Does it have one of those 'Eye Witnesses' on it?
Ok then let me answer a few of your questions:
The LCD can show a map with our position on as we have GPS, it also can display any of the cameras fitted to the vehicle so it's good for reversing. We can also get information from it for hazardous materials so we know what we're dealing with at an incident. Also it has our SOP's (standard operating procedures) so if we needed to brush up on our knowledge of a certain job we could check en route, not that we ever do and also by the time the system has booted up we're normally about there anyway.
It does have onboard cctv but it also records what is being said in the cab, there was an uproar about this so they have removed this.
It is a Scania, infact here is a picture of the appliances from my station, a Scania is on the left but this is now our old one, the pictures above are from our new Scania that uses compressed foam to put out fires instead of just using water.
It's me in the picture below driving the engine second from the right which is a proper Fire Engine, it was a sad day when we lost our Rapier. This is because these are built from the ground up as a Fire Engine and they handle awesome with leaf spring suspension and don't roll all over the place like air suspension Scanias do. The Scanias are a standard wagon chasis which they then put a body on be that bin wagon or Fire Engine. As you can see on the right is a Turntable Ladder, I can drive and operate that too.
I learnt to drive in an old Volvo Engine, it was shocking, that broke so we swapped onto a Dennis SS like the one below, that was equally as bad. Slow, noisy, very slack steering, doesn't corner etc.
Not sure about the LCD display, it's in them when they arrive and thats as much as I know.
Now R124/LA420, if you wanted a go in a Fire Engine forget the Scanias, the one to drive is a Rapier (the one I'm in in the top photo in this post), they are unbelievable, when you learn to drive on blue lights they take you to an old airstrip and you learn to take them to the limits, you couldn't do this in a Scania as it would roll over. Drifting in a 15 ton engine is amazing, slalom in cones, emergency stops and cornering, these babies don't half squeel though. You then dump the water in the tank and do it all again, except this time your mostly sideways, these handle great in the dry but like any wagon you have to show them respect in the wet.
Our new Scanias are speed limited untill you go on blue lights, they are also automatic but you can use them tiptronic with a stalk next to the steering wheel.
piece of cake untill it breaks and then your knackered. With an old pump you had work arounds, this just stops.
Interesting stuff!
I'm not surprised that the custom built engine is the better tbh although I am surprised you prefer leaf springs over air suspension, in my experience air is the only way to go.....
Staffordshire Fire & Rescue service had an open day a few years back, I very nearly got the chance to try an engine, I'd left my licence at home! So very close....
Drifting a tractor unit (about 8 ton) is fun enough, I've drifted a 17 tonner before, but, it was somewhat unintentional!
Post more pics mate, brings out the little boy in me.
Are you allowed to just drive around in the engine?
I was serving a female firefighter and her mate when another guy ran into the shop shouted up they had a shout n they all bolted to the engine that was parked outside.
Are you allowed to just drive around in the engine?
I was serving a female firefighter and her mate when another guy ran into the shop shouted up they had a shout n they all bolted to the engine that was parked outside.
Can you get porn on that screen?
Would you ever use that 1000gal/min pump at full blast? Can anything (that's not a river) supply that much water as fast as you can use it?