Fort Garry Fire Trucks: Tough today, tough tomorrow By Trevor Robb, Marketing Manager Our motto at Fort Garry Fire Trucks is “One Tough Truck”. Just how tough are we talking? Considering that many of the vehicles that roll out of our Canadian manufacturing plant will be called upon to work in some of the most inhospitable conditions on the planet. That includes everything
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from bone-chilling lows of -60° C in Canada’s North to blistering highs of 50° C in desert climates halfway around the world. And they often have to travel on some of the most treacherous roads around to get to where they need to go. Fort Garry Fire Trucks is Canada’s oldest
and largest manufacturer of firefighting apparatus, and we sell more than 100 rigs in a typical year. While the bulk of those sales are here in Canada, where we supply equipment to every province, we also serve our neighbours to the south in the United States and as far away as China, Chile, Cuba, Costa Rica, Pakistan, the Bahamas, and the United Arab Emirates. We boast one of the largest fire apparatus engineering departments amongst our competitors, devoted to the design and production of equipment for the most extreme conditions in the world. With the exception of the commercial chassis used in some of our trucks, every aspect of design and construction is handled by our employees, from painting — we offer more than 160 shades of red — to pump assembly. As our company has grown over the years, so too have our product lines. We build everything from small rescue trucks all the way up to our top-of-the-line Bronto Skylift, with an
