Firetrucks are NOT immune to accidents from liquid surge. In fact, fire trucks may be at greater risk than typical water tanker. Why is that?

Fire trucks are, by nature and design, carrying around large amounts of water and they are often not 100% full. This means whenever a firetruck is moving, there is a danger for liquid surge.

Now add into that, the nature of the firetruck, which is often speeding towards an emergency, needing to navigate around other moving traffic and drivers who under normal circumstances are a threat to the average water tanker. 

A poorly managed turn, a sudden stop, another bad driver hitting the truck or forcing the truck to swerve can all cause a liquid surge which removes control of the firetruck from the driver. 

“You don’t know how serious it is … any time you roll a truck over, especially a fire truck.”

Any vehicle carrying volumes of liquid is in danger of this. It’s unfortunate, but not surprising when this happens to a fire truck.

All it takes is one wrong move and the water in your tanker … which is moving independently of your truck … will help push you over.

In this story, fortunately, the driver was ok:

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As you can see, even a fire truck is not immune from this problem. 

In fact some of our best and happiest customers are fire departments. We have Surge Busters in regular firetruck tanks, fireboat tanks, wildfire supply tanks, and more.

If you are a firefighter of any kind, please get in touch with us. We’ll help you outfit your fleet with the most efficient and cost-effective surge elimination solution on the market. 

You’ll be able to deliver a higher volume of water to your destination consistently faster, and safer, than ever before.

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