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We have recently switched to Fullbay for tracking services and preventative maintenance. It allows us to create services specific for a truck, or component that might be used on many trucks. I have invested many hours recently in building checklists, and doing this has opened my eyes to a huge problem we need to address without delay. **Our PMs have been incomplete, by completing neither all the services required by NFPA 1910 or the services required by many manufacturers.** | We have recently switched to Fullbay for tracking services and preventative maintenance. It allows us to create services specific for a truck, or component that might be used on many trucks. I have invested many hours recently in building checklists, and doing this has opened my eyes to a huge problem we need to address without delay. **Our PMs have been incomplete, by completing neither all the services required by NFPA 1910 or the services required by many manufacturers.** | ||
- | Our present checklist has been in use for about 2 years. It was created using the form in NFPA 1910, | + | Our present checklist has been in use for about 2 years. It was created using the form in NFPA 1910, Annex C.3 Figure C.3(b)((for a limited time, this [[https:// |
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+ | **The service we have been providing therefore, does not meet the ‘standard’ set forth by NFPA.** We aim to fix this, but it takes careful consideration (by us and you, the AHJ). | ||
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+ | A full PM on a pumper is an intensive ordeal when compared to a vehicle like my car((2007 Subaru Impreza)). My car has a manual, and in that manual is a maintenance table //for the whole car//. It covers the engine, transmission, | ||
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+ | So my workflow looks something like this, for a custom Sutphen pumper: | ||
+ | - Build a checklist that covers all points from chapter 8. | ||
+ | - Referencing Sutphen chassis manual, add details to frame & suspension or items not listed in NFPA that Sutphen requires. | ||
+ | - Reference axle manual, customize the inspection points for axles, wheel bearings, differentials. | ||
+ | - Reference brake manufacturer manual, customizing inspection for brakes, wear limits, etc. | ||
+ | - Repeat for engine, transmission, | ||
+ | - Add Out-of-Service criteria from chapter 6. | ||
+ | - repeat the steps for chapters 9 through 16 as applicable. | ||
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+ | **All these things will make a PM take longer and cost more** | ||
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+ | Some examples of things explicitly required, but that we have not done: | ||
+ | * Hale ESP primers call for annual disassembly and cleaning.(([[https:// | ||
+ | * Wheel lugs need to be checked for proper torque.((NFPA 1910.8.3.7, [[https:// | ||
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+ | How can we find a balance in making sure we perform service to the standard, without being frivolous? If cleaning a primer every year for 5 years costs more than repairing that primer when/if it breaks, and the low probability of an inoperable primer affecting fireground operations or other fire truck components by it’s failure, is it responsible to make a decision to **not** perform the maintenance? | ||
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+ | For the wheels, after loosening and re-torquing them once, if we know they weren’t removed during the year, the following PM I would feel comfortable simply checking if they are still tight. Surely they didn’t get tighter by themselves. | ||
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+ | These are a small example. More will come. We need to talk soon, and certainly before next PM, to figure out how to be responsible in doing our work. | ||
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+ | **A final thought**: If a service is ‘declined’, | ||
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