Truck Company Operations

Great book for truck Ops!

Excellent book. The information was worth the money to me. If your new to truck company operations or haven't had real quality specialized training, then you will find good information here. You can't prepare too much when your knowledge may save a member of your team, a civilian or yourself.

Excellent book with terrific detail in all aspects of truck work. The most heavily worked truckie would benefit from this book not to mention those who don't have a high incidence of fire in their municipality. One can take the info in this book to the bank as it is from a 30 year veteran in one of the biggest and busiest depts in the country. That dept's aerials do true truck work which makes the organization and accuracy of this book top notch, I'm still highlighting.Congrats to Chief Mittendorf.

This is a great book. I have had it for years and have read it several times to keep my knowledge on point.

Awesome book, great information

If you are a fireman and care about being a BETTER fireman, then get the book. If your one of those guys who just sits around and complains, go buy a crossword puzzle instead. For everyone else: Read it and go out practice some of the stuff he discusses. Lots of good, practical tactics.

It's clear Mittendorf has a lot to say, and there's a lot of good information in this book. However, it is one of the most poorly written books I've ever had the misfortune to read. I have a hard time believing the editor listed did so much as read a single page in the book. I'm sure some will be upset that I've given a book with such great information a two star review based on editing. However, Fire Engineering charges a handsome price for a book the staff clearly slapped together with absolutely zero editing. It's an insult to the customer that this thing was crapped out onto the fire service in this condition, and the editor betrayed John Mittendorf by not correcting the horror that is his writing style.

Very good guide for the chief officer considering to develop a truck company as well as a valuable training resource for members of a truck. Great tool!