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swmn | There are a lot of requirements and I don't know them all, but if your putting it together yourself or locally you can keep it pretty simple. Strickly a tanker without a pump or with a smaller booster pump isn't to complicated unless your planning on doing more than that with it. Large quick dump is essential obviously but filling should match up with neighboring depts. as mutual aid calls you'll want everything to have similar fill ports, we have top fill on everything but other than at the fire hall we bottom fill from hydrants with a 2 1/2 most of the time, we have a 2 1/2 inlet by the pump and I think its a 5" so it could be filled with ldh on the rear but its reduced to 2 1/2 cause everyone has that, and fill times aren't much different filling from a 4" pipe on our topfill at the hall vs a 2 1/2 off a good hydrant. Us and most our neighboring depts. carry 2 1/2" gate valves and a hose with a double female on the tankers so we hook to a hydrant on edge of town and leave it connected with hydrant on so the next truck can hook the hose and fill.
We have large dump on rear and driver side, gas pump and 1/1/2 preconnect on driver side, spray bar on front, and booster reel and drop tank on passenger side, extra drop tank and water transfer stuff on top. This is a 3000 gal twinscrew with cummins/allison auto, we got this one on a % matching grant in 08. But there at a lot of tankers around us that were put together locally. We can draft and fill with ours and have 2 1/2 suction hoses on it but we've never done it and doubt we ever will
Edited by waterspman 9/13/2017 10:47
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Setting up a Fire Dept Tanker
