In May, Tender 1230 from the Whitewater FD (Wisconsin) hauled water during our 2-day Rural Water Supply Operations Seminar in Linn, Wisconsin. Like many of the tenders in the 2-hour drill at Linn, Tender 1230 is set up quite nicely to efficiently haul water. The 4,100-gallon tender was built by U.S. Tanker and it is set up to dump fast from its three dump chutes and load fast using the 5-inch direct fill line. The tender carries two dump tanks and is also equipped with a 500 gpm pump.
Tender 1230 is a 4,100 gallon tanker built by U.S. Tanker.
The "business end" of this tanker is set up to get the job done! The 5-inch direct fill line, mounted low for easy access, makes all the difference when this rig is hauling water in a shuttle. The big inlet shortens the fill time and gets the rig back on the road to the dump site.
Tender 1230 is shown here operating at a 2014 water supply drill in Whitewater.