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As a rule, these have a rear liftgate and an interior with floor rails and securing clamps to accommodate a large number of standardized wheeled baskets. These have pre-loaded equipment, which can embrace virtually all likely needs for any items which are either not carried on regular rescue pumps or rescue trucks and/or only carried in limited numbers. Some fire services load a set of the most commonly needed items on to their logistic support truck(s), but others leave them empty - and load the up with whatever the alarm or on site incident commander indicates might be needed.

Typical items include - but are not limited to - extra hoses, hose fittings, portable pumps, generators, lighting, fans, foam and foam equipment, hazmat gear, salvage items, BA sets and cylinders, protective suits and rescue tools.

They enable smaller fire departments to add resources without the expense of acquiring pods and pod carriers, as well as giving bigger cities an alternative to bringing out specialized pods to incidents where they are not really needed.


Added by Rob Johnson on 30 October 2022.

Perhaps I should add that a lot of the earlier logistics support trucks like this had crew cabs, but the newer ones are more often based on standard cab chassis. Although some volunteers have enough personnel responding to fill a six seat crew cab, most full time (and many volunteer) stations only staff these with one or two crew members.

Smaller logistics vans - typically around 5 tons - rarely ever had a crew cab.

Added by Rob Johnson on 31 October 2022.

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