This from Bill Schreiber:
NEW ORDERThe Alsip Fire Department has recently ordered this Rosenbauer Group 100? mid-mount Cobra aerial! This full-time department covers approximately seven miles and a population of over 20,000. This is the department’s FIRST Rosenbauer! THANK YOU Chief Thomas Styczynski and Alsip firefighters for choosing Sentinel Emergency Solutions and Rosenbauer to build your next fire apparatus!Features include:EXT HD aluminum body with LIFETIME TRANSFERRABLE WARRANTY!Hot-dipped galvanized painted frame rails2000-GPM pumpAerial Wireless aerial remote controlFor more info click HERE:Apparatus Specialist: Bill Schreiber Sentinel Emergency Solutions- Chicagoland
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#1 by Dennis on September 24, 2024 - 9:47 AM
This tower is currently on the production line. Seagrave and all other manufacture’s are 3-5 years away on taking delivery of a completely custom vehicle. If you are lucky to get something on the production line or in the queue to be built, then you can get some custom work done and get it sooner. Any big purchase order pushes smaller jobs back, that’s just how it is.
#2 by Mike C on September 24, 2024 - 8:53 AM
Craig – What are you basing 3-4 year lead time off of?
Based on the amount of rigs Seagrave has on order, at a 3 year lead time, they would need to produce 33% of the rigs on order.
If Seagrave produces 25% of the rigs on order, it would take 4 years to fulfill all their current orders. Based on fulfilling 25% of their backlog per year, Seagrave has not built this many rigs in more than 20 years.
At the pace Seagrave is going, they will only deliver less than 17% of their backlog this year. If Seagrave maintains this volume, that results in a 6 year lead time.
The only way Seagrave will get rigs delivered quicker is by shuffling around the order sequence or postponing deliveries to FDNY.
Help me understand your logic.
#3 by Craig Mack on July 29, 2024 - 7:19 PM
Seagrave is not a 5 or 6 year wait. It’s 3 or 4 depending on if it’s a platform or not. Just like everyone else. Fleet rigs for big cities do drain resources, but they’re all the same design so builders can order the parts and complete them in batches, so that makes it faster than doing individually customized rigs. Just sayin
#4 by Mike C on July 29, 2024 - 2:24 PM
Seagrave’s lead time is more like 5 or 6 years if you order a rig today. FDNY has around 300 rigs on order with Seagrave. RK Aerials have never been very good but I wish the best to Alsip. Good guys on Alsip! The Seagrave ladder that Alsip has is very old. Unfortunate that it’s life has come to an end.
#5 by Craig Mack on July 26, 2024 - 11:08 PM
This is a demo that they needed as an emergency purchase. Seagrave doesn’t make demos and their lead times are crazy long like everyone else’s. Kinda puts them between a rock and a hard place. They wanted a Seagrave tower, but didn’t have the time after the current truck failed its ladder test. Hopefully this will work out for them! Alsip hasn’t had a tower for a long time!
#6 by Hunter on July 26, 2024 - 4:48 PM
Lockport is going back to Pierce. The new engine will go to station 2 and the current engine 2 will go to station 4. The new engine is in production
#7 by Kevin Griffin on July 26, 2024 - 3:52 PM
Gotta remember lead times seagrave lead time for a truck is over 3 years if not longer. This truck will be to the middle of the year next year. They had a catastrophic failure on their truck so they don’t have one right now. The chose this over a Sutphen because it would be here sooner
#8 by Martin on July 26, 2024 - 3:45 PM
I believe someone from Alsip is or was on Lockport as well. Trying to remember what I read on Facebook but if so the Lockport tower issue was the reason why Alsip didn’t get Seagrave. Not 100% sure if it was the truth or not since it was on Facebook.
#9 by Harry on July 26, 2024 - 12:55 PM
I am surprised that they bought a non seagrave