1) Everyone needs to stop toting Pierce as the greatest thing to happen to apparatus. They're just another builder of custom trucks.
2) The quality is in the spec, not the brand on the front.
3) Lets not start with all this bashing B.S. until the rigs are actually IN the field and have been used for 6-12 months. This is a brand new chassis with a brand new spec. There will be issues and as long as they're corrected by Ferrara, all will be well. No one will be able to make a reasonable claim to the quality of the apparatus until it has been through the ringer, tweaked by Ferrara and in the field for many months going through the actual paces of day to day operations.
Hey, maybe they'll suck. Who knows, certainly not a single person here. Why? Because they've barely been around the block. So, lets just take it easy on exclaiming they're failure and back off with the Pierce fanboy nonsense.