Pierce Manufacturing Inc.

Appleton, WI United States

 

Company Description

If you were to call "Jim Dandy to the Rescue," odds are the R&B music hero would wheel up in a vehicle made by Pierce Manufacturing. The company is a subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation's Fire & Emergency business and the top North American maker of custom fire apparatus. Its lineup includes aerials, commercial pumpers, elliptical tankers, and rescue trucks. The company also builds homeland security apparatus designed to help police and emergency crews better respond to terrorist events. Many vehicle bodies are assembled on major commercial chassis brands to meet customer needs, such as the US Army's. Its innovations include the industry's first side roll protection and frontal airbag systems for fire apparatus.