Showcrop, Peterbilt tanker

Rollie NE PA · Nov 26, 2018

Has your fire dept. made any headway concerning the Peterbilt tankers instability issue? Just curious.

showcrop · Nov 27, 2018

Yes, Rollie, It went to Peterbilt for front to back leveling a couple weeks ago and the chief was happy with it afterwards. I drove it Sunday maybe 30 miles and it behaved very well. Not only did it never shake, but the cornering was much better than it was at first. It just took some firm talk between Emergency One, our chief and Peterbilt. Peterbilt was trying to keep away from it because E-1 had put the pump transfer case in the driveline. Thanks for asking.

dpendzic · Nov 27, 2018

How many gallond does your tanker hold? Ours is an International 3500 gallons with a 1250 gpm pump

EFV · Nov 27, 2018

I missed this thread. What was the instability issue with tanker ?
Are you both in Pennsylvania ?

Leroy · Nov 27, 2018

So what was the problem? The pump?

Rollie NE PA · Nov 27, 2018

Thanks for the update. My department has a Peterbilt 379 with a 3800 gal. tank. We have had several problems such as the fiberglass baffles breaking and the tank shifting when cornering. The tank had a 20 year warranty but the fire apparatus builder went out of business 2 years after we bought the truck. We spent nearly 35,000 to have a new tank made and installed and the company that did the tank installation did a poor job. We just spent another 2,000 to have bracing installed to keep the tank from shifting.

showcrop · Nov 27, 2018

EFV and Leroy, The main problem was what I called "prancing." It would suddenly start shaking like an old truck with a very badly worn front end. You had to hit the brakes hard and slow right down to get it to stop. It seemed also to lean more than it should on sharp curves. I had put a post about it here to see if anyone had any experience like it because E-One and Pete both wanted to point fingers at each other. The truck is an Emergency One on a 348 Pete. It has a 1500 gal Hale pump and a 3000 gal tank. When I Put the post up before, most of the answers were accusing us of driving around with half a tank of water and thinking that it was full. Anyway it drives very nicely now that it is leveled out.

Leroy · Nov 29, 2018

Good you got it working, I just wondered what the problem was when it was found. Sounded like some thought it was the way a pump was installed. That I wondered how a pump could make it do that. And what they had to do to get it corrected.

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