Fire Truck Loading
Fire Truck Loading
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Could anyone give me some ideas on where I could find the AASHTO load cases or Gross Vehicle Weight of a Large (hook & ladder type) fire truck. I have to check the capacity of a parking garage to withstand this type of loading in the Kansas City, Missouri area.
Thanks ahead of time.
Thanks ahead of time.






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Your left to look up fire truck manufacturers on the internet and then contact them for more information.
I also can't believe that a fire truck could enter a garage nor that its Captain would allow a truck to enter a burning building or potentially burning building (assuming it was there for a car fire). It seems rather that the truck would be set aside the location and hose run from there as is typical for highrise structures.
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Sorry to disagree, but a lot of us would be run out of business if we designed parking garages for 150psf. 50psf is all that is required by code.
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Anyway, I found this to be a good resource: http://www.firetrucks.com/antispam/pages/.
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Sorry to ramble on!
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I knew this was the right place to post my questions!!!!
You guys (and gals) have been great. Thanks again.
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I am encountering the same situation with a garage design in OKC. The top floor of the garage empties out at street level on three sides of my garage. Luckily the architect/contractor/building inspector have agreed to deliniate a "fire lane" for the fire trucks so that I don't have to design the entire upper floor to support the load. Conversations with the local fire marshall stated that the design should be based on HS-20 highway loading.
I was just wondering what you ended up doing in your case?
Was your garage PT or precast?
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The design ended up using AASHTO HS-20 and we intended on using precast. However, due to construction costs at the time, the project was scrubbed.
Thanks for your interest and again thank you everyone for your input.
Wrightguy
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