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3. Hose Bed requirements: The Emergency One truck would allow us to carry 1600 feet of 4 inch supply hose. The Pierce would only allow for 1000 feet of supply hose. The E-One allows for the hose to play out freely from the rear of the truck. The Pierce design mandates that hose come off the truck in a hose tray. Neighboring fire departments have had problems with supply hose jamming with this fype of truck design. 4. Length of the vehicle The E- One ladder truck fits into our present station. This truck is 37 feet long and has 360 cubic feet of compartmentation. The Pierce Ladder would fit into our station on a chassis that does not meet our requirements. The solution to fitting the Pierce truck into our station would be to reduce the number of compartments, thus reducing the length of the apparatus and unforiunately, the cubic footage of storage space. This idea is unacceptable. The Sutphen Company also manufactures a ladder truck. The design of this truck will not allow it to fit into our station, therefore, fheir sales representative has not been approached by us to bid on this truck. 5. Aluminum versus steel: Probably the biggest factor favoring the Emergency One is that this truck is 100% aluminum. Both the truck body and ladder itself are consixucted out of aluminum. A major reason the E-One meets the Federal Department of Transportation weight distribution requirements is that aluminum is lighter and does not have the corrosion problems presented by steel. Both Pierce and L.T.I. use steel ladders on aluminum truck bodies. 6. Specifications I am recommending the Emergency One for one additional reason. The E-One meets our requirements without having to compromise. Whether it is the size of the water tank, the amount of hose the truck can carry, the weight of the truck or the size of the axles and brakes the Emergency One does not compromise what WE want.