Apparatus Details

2001 Pierce Lance Heavy Rescue

Four door enclosed cab with seating for 11 with 10 SCBA seats. Powered by a Detroit Diesel 430HP with Allison Automatic Transmission.  The truck is equipped with a 12,0000 lbs. front winch, 3 receivers for the 9,000lbs portable winch and 6 bottle Cascade System. Ample storage for equipment on both sides of the unit as well as storage in the walk in area of the rescue body. Full NFPA warning light and siren package and electric cord reels and a 30kW Hydraulic Generator is included on the truck along with 2 9000 watt light towers. The vehicle only has 40,900 miles. This unit is available for immediate delivery and is priced to sell at $174,900.00 Contact Bob today at 1-877-346-1373

Manufacturers History: The company was originally founded in 1913 by Humphrey Pierce and his son Dudley as the Pierce Auto Body Works Inc., and concentrated on building custom truck bodies for the Ford Model T. From the 1960s to the early 1980s, Pierce was primarily known for building custom bodies on commercial and other manufacturer’s custom chassis, and was considered an OEM.

Although the Arrow name was used for their first custom chassis which debuted in 1979, the company has no affiliation with George N. Pierce’s famous Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company of Buffalo, New York, which operated from 1901 to 1938. However, the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company coincidentally supplied 8- and 12-cylinder engines to Seagrave for use in their fire apparatus. These engines continued to be made even after Pierce-Arrow ceased operation in 1938. Seagrave continued to deliver fire apparatus with the “Pierce-Arrow” V-12 until 1970.

Throughout the years, Pierce has had partnerships with various other manufacturers, notably when it came to aerial devices (they now engineer and build all their own aerial devices in-house). Such aerial manufacturers included Snorkel, Pitman, Aerial Innovations (AI), Ladder Towers Incorporated (LTI), Smeal, Bronto Skylift and NovaQuintech (whose assets Pierce/Oshkosh acquired in 1997). In addition to their main facilities in Wisconsin, they also have facilities in Bradenton, Florida. The Florida facility is a manufacturing site for the Contender and Responder line of apparatus, as well as a refurbishment center.