New FRU's at stations

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:05 pm

The sixth and final FRU has gone to its station (Bethnal Green), its will officially go 'on the run' wed 26th September. It has been marred however with problems straight from the start as has the other five new ones.

The official LFB story is here http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/news/detail.asp?id=893 although this just mentions the last FRU to 'go live' which was Clerkenwell, although it doesn't mention any problems with missing equipment or parts of the vehicle being broken.

Now logic would tell you everything should be working and all the equipment available and loaded onto the FRU before it even left the workshop never mind given to the station. This as usual was not the case and it has been left to the watch's to make do with out the stuff until it can be ordered on POM's

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:30 pm

Has anyones else had a problem with the FRU locker catches breaking, apparently they've upgraded the new ones so it shouldn't happen anymore but the older ones still seem to break on a regular basis.

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:46 pm

Have seen some of the older black catches break but this happening because of people slamming them shut, I little less arm muscle may be the way :lol:

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:23 pm

Hi all.
The older FRU's had very cheap and cheerful catches on them and broke all the time. I hope assetco realised this and upgraded them on the "big red beds".

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:36 am

Hey Firestorm, the whole vehicle is 'cheap and cheerful' now :cry:

There are some severe build and equipment issues on the new Mk 2's, not sure if its AssetCo's fault or not but someone needs a hefty boot somewhere.

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:55 am

Like most of the new fleet now its built to a price rather than a standard

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:25 pm

Also, we have plenty of gear which is not complete on the new FRU or equipment we do not need. seems they have just chucked what ever was lying around the workshop at the time.

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:59 pm

Yea, I remember you getting the water rescue paths for no reason. I can't believe they are so cheap they can just leave three sets on a vehicle that doesn't need them

rob

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:15 pm

This shows I think a totally lack of understanding by someone on what is required in London from its FRU's.
I know I do not have any experiance in riding an FRU blah blah, but would it not seem sensible to have dedicated FRU'S for say Line Rescue, Water and USART which we have now but also dedicated FRU'S for RTA's Chemical jobs etc, rather than trying to have a fleet do all some of the time but not all the time.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:12 pm

'They' are talking about dedicated stations, but they've been talking about this for a while now. I agree, we should have specific FRU's for specific jobs