Behemoth Fire Trucks

Did you ever think fire trucks are too big? Maybe it's part of being in America, where everything is bigger, so fire trucks have to be bigger too. Seems to me you could do most of what a firetruck does with a much smaller vehicle. This would in turn give you a whole bunch of other advantages:

• lower cost
• less weight
• less horsepower required
• more maneuverable

On the other hand, maybe the production numbers can't justify the expense of designing a whole new kind of compact fire engine. However, the way people fight about taxes, and since fire engines are almost always paid for by taxes, I expect we shall see a change sometime in the next five or ten years.