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Yes and no imo. A lot of big town/small city departments buy them and never use them. Meanwhile, our late 80s (?) Dodge is point and pin it wherever we need to go. Most of these new "brush trucks" really type 6 wildland engines and too big to go a lot of places around here.

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Brush trucks in these parts peaked at that Dodge and CUCV’s. We just gave keys to one of our ponds to a few local departments as a SHTF scenario. Only one department has a truck that can even get down to it easily. The rest are too big and rely on that truck to go down to it, run line and pump up to the top of the road.
 
Brush trucks in these parts peaked at that Dodge and CUCV’s. We just gave keys to one of our ponds to a few local departments as a SHTF scenario. Only one department has a truck that can even get down to it easily. The rest are too big and rely on that truck to go down to it, run line and pump up to the top of the road.
Several local departments have big dually F450s and as nice as they are, theyre just too heavy.
 
I finally see how they make money lol 😂 I used to wonder how they survived off 60$ calls. But they are making up for it now
They make it up in other areas too. Now granted I deal in big trucks but we had a deal recently where one tried to charge insurance $60K for storage over the weekend of a truck and trailer. Yes you heard me right. Truck was in a wreck on Friday towed to their yard and on Monday they tried to tell them the weekend storage bill was $60K.
 
They make it up in other areas too. Now granted I deal in big trucks but we had a deal recently where one tried to charge insurance $60K for storage over the weekend of a truck and trailer. Yes you heard me right. Truck was in a wreck on Friday towed to their yard and on Monday they tried to tell them the weekend storage bill was $60K.
Yea I believe it. A lot of shady tow companies out there for sure. I used a local tow company for years then one day they try to charge me $800 to tow a box truck 3 miles. Said it was heavy duty but they towed them for me almost daily. And only used a 3500 wrecker. Then all the parking lot stalker tow companies
 
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