Monday, November 2, 2009

Cost of Doing Business

Published Monday, June 01, 2009

A small volunteer fire department in the Southeast has a 17-year-old truck it would like to replace. The department holds fund-raisers every year, yet every year a new truck seems further away. And now due to price increases as a result of the NFPA 1901 revisions implemented at the beginning of the year, the department now plans to keep its old truck. The latest requirements under NFPA 1901 include seatbelt alarms, vehicle data recorders and chevron striping, which add between $5,000 and $6,000 to the cost of a new fire truck. In 2010, new EPA ...

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