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Rant: I found out a fire truck costs about $900k and I can't stop thinking about it
I was killing time on Reddit last Tuesday in the r/askanything thread about weird job facts and a firefighter chimed in that a single new pumper truck runs somewhere around $900,000 to $1.2 million depending on the setup. I laughed it off until I looked it up myself and yeah, a basic one is close to a million bucks, and that's before you load it with hoses, ladders, and all the gear. Here's the part that got me though, a set of four tires for one of those things can run $6,000, and they swap them out way more often than you'd guess because the truck sits heavy and the rubber takes a beating. My uncle drove a truck in Cleveland for 22 years and when I called him about it he just said yep, that's why we baby those things like they're made of glass. I asked him what happens if one gets wrecked and he said a lot of departments just run the old one longer, which makes me feel weird about every fire station I drive past now. So my dumb question is, does anyone here actually work in a city budget office or a fire dept and know if the million dollar number is real or if my Reddit guy was just hyping it up?
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