Description

2008 Spartan Gladiator Custom Fire 75′ LTI Ladder

Spartan 4 door enclosed cab with seating for 6. Powered by Cummins 500 HP diesel engine and Allison Automatic Transmission. Waterous 1500 GPM Pump with 500 gallon water tank and 30 gallon foam tank. The truck is equipped with 3 crosslays, one front bumper discharge. Driver’s side pump panel has the following one 6″ intake. Officers side pump panel has the following discharges one LDH discharge and two 2.5″ discharges and the following one 6″ and one 2.5″ intake. On the rear of the truck there is one 5″ intake and 5″ discharge. The truck is equipped with NFPA emergency lighting and sirens. This Spartan Gladiator Custom Fire 75′ LTI Ladder is available for immediate delivery for just $130,000.00.

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History

Spartan Chassis

Spartan Motors was formed in Charlotte, Michigan in 1976 by four engineers from the bankrupt Diamond-REO truck company. Spartan designed and manufactured a custom cabover chassis for fire services. Like Duplex, Hendrickson, Oshkosh and Pemfab, Spartan supplied chassis to apparatus body manufacturers – this market niche falls between custom apparatus built entirely by apparatus manufacturers (like Pierce or E-One) and commercial chassis rigs like Ford, Freightliner or GMC. Unlike their specialty competitors, Spartan would build chassis to end-user specifications, enabling smaller body manufacturers to offer a custom apparatus option. The Spartan chassis was popular, and apparatus manufacturers throughout North America offered (and continue to offer) Spartan-chassis apparatus.

In the 1980s, Spartan also began to build custom chassis for motor homes.

Early models included the CFC, CFG and CFH chassis. The Gladiator was introduced in 1983 and continues to be one of Spartan’s most popular models. Other models introduced in the 1980s and 1990s included the Diamond, the Monarch, the rear-engine Silent Knight and the GT-One. The Metro Star and Advantage were introduced in the latter part of the 1990s and the Metro Star remains in production today.

Custom Fire 

Every new fire truck is a fresh journal waiting to gather your stories of determination, commitment, passion, and pride. Here is ours.

Jim Kirvida’s grandfather, Elmer Abrahamson, was a talented blacksmith and community leader in the early 20th century. So it’s no wonder that Jim Kirvida possessed the skills and grit to set out on his own and start Custom Fire Apparatus, Inc. in the mid-70’s. Beginning as a builder of high quality and creative brush trucks, tankers, and light rescue apparatus, the CustomFIRE team also cut their teeth as a refurbishment destination of other makes of fire apparatus. This experience forged an understanding of how apparatus should be built to resist the effects of time, action, and the elements.

Today, CustomFIRE builds several trucks every month, investing those early lessons into each truck built. And these are no regular trucks. They are created using the best in design and manufacturing equipment that the fire industry has ever known. Emphasizing bolted construction and stainless steel components, CustomFIRE honors their customers by delivering apparatus constructed at an incomparable level of fit and finish and durability.

We at CustomFIRE pride ourselves on our legendary apparatus and well earned customer relationships. Please take some time to explore our website, see what our customers have professed about our company, and then give us a call when you are ready for a higher level of fire apparatus.

LTI Ladders

In 1973, Grove Manufacturing sold off its aerial ladder division to concentrate on crane manufacture. In 1974, Mahlon Zimmerman started a new company, Ladder Towers Incorporated (better known by the initials LTI) by building former Grove aerial devices.

Over the years, LTI built several aerial devices. Bodies were built by Conestoga Custom Products Incorporated, which was located in the same industrial park as LTI. Trucks were built on Spartan, Hendrickson and Pemfab chassis.

In 1985, LTI developed its own custom chassis, the LTI Olympian. In 1986, LTI was acquired by Simon Group, maker of the Simon Snorkel elevating platforms. The new company, called Simon-LTI, then acquired custom chassis manufacturer Duplex. The truck was manufactured under the Simon Duplex LTI name.

In 1998, Simon-LTI’s ladder division was purchased by Aerial Innovations Inc., a company founded by LTI founder Mahlon Zimmerman.

In 1999, all these companies were merged into a division of the new American LaFrance Corporation owned by Freightliner Corporation. After this date, LTI and Aerial Innovations aerials were only built on American LaFrance custom chassis and Freightliner commercial chassis.

In 2014, American LaFrance ceased operations and LTI was acquired by Smeal, who renamed it Ladder Tower Company (LTC). When Smeal was purchased by Spartan ERV, LTC was acquired as well.^[1]