Performance advantage Company (PAC), established in 1992, is a privately owned company which manufactures and markets high quality tool mounting brackets. PAC’s primary market is the Fire Industry providing specialty tool mounting solutions for fire apparatus. Other markets include the Military, Law Enforcement, EMS, Utilities and Homeland Security. Performance Advantage Company headquarters is located in Lancaster, NY, a suburb of Buffalo and sells its products direct or through a worldwide network of dealers.
Tom Shand and Mike Wilbur review rigs from around the country, some featuring first-time concepts and others with enhancements of tried-and-true layouts.
The Webster Collegiate Dictionary defines the word progressive in the following terms: “Making use of or interested in new ideas, findings or opportunities.” Since the inception...
During the 1940s, several manufacturers recognized that when World War II ended, there would be an unprecedented need for new fire apparatus in most communities. As most industrial...
One of the major tenants of our “Innovative Rigs on the Street” series is that while the apparatus can come in all shapes, sizes and models, the end result is that new apparatus...
For many years fire apparatus were traditionally built on commercial chassis as they were readily available and could easily be adapted for different fire service applications...
So far in our Innovative Rigs on the Street series we have visited locations in California, Maryland and Pennsylvania to identify innovative pieces of apparatus that have been...
