kfd274 said:
8/13/2011
Trying to sort out the order, production and delivery schedule based on the Ferrara site, and FDNY orders.
(1) There will be a total of twenty in the original three year contract, based on orders for six, four and ten.
Corrected based on additional information from Florian Knight (8/14/2011)
I'm not sure where the notion of a 3 year order came from, but that can't be true. Fabrication of these rigs started 6 or 8 months ago and they're all nearing completion. All 20 rigs will be finished in the coming months. Why they're not in service yet, I can't tell you. I'll take a stab and say that they're a real departure from our current equipment and more familiarization work is needed. There may very well be some fine tuning still needed.
I was at The Rock last month and one of the new rigs was sitting there. Got to take a good look at it, nice rig, but there was a sign on the dash that said, "Do not drive or operate aerial, unit has not been accepted yet".
Other reasons....well, this is NYC, things don't happen that quickly!
As for companies being trained on them; I can tell you, without a doubt, that all of the first 20 co's have not had familiarization training. You'd think they would have gotten to all 20, but they haven't.