The fire truck weighs over 24,000 pounds.
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The claim matches the podcast passage, but the sources only give general weights for fire trucks as a class, not for the specific truck the speaker bought and parked in his brother's driveway. Typical fire apparatus is reported well above 24,000 lb, but no source identifies or weighs this truck, so the claim cannot be graded against it.
This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.
What was said
… I'm like, "I don't know." In my mind, immediately, in your ass yeah i that's not what happens, right? Like, we don't literally park a fire truck my wife's ass. I put in my brother's driveway, who lives next door. I smashed up all the concrete. The fire truck weighs over 24000 lb. I owe my brother a new driveway. Yeah, how much was it? The drive way? Yeah, all the drive way is way more than the fire truck. Oh, yeah, yeah, you guys got a deal. Oh, we got a deal. …
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Context. General sources give typical fire engine weights above 24,000 lb (for example 38,000 to 60,000 lb for a pumper, and 30,000 to 60,000 lb for most fire trucks), but these describe the class of vehicle, not the truck in the passage.[1][2][3]
Context. Some historical fire trucks in the RCAF registry weigh 12,340 to 16,400 lb, so the 24,000 lb threshold is not met by every fire truck, and the sources do not say which kind this truck is.[4]
Context. The passage is the claimant's own comedic account and cannot corroborate its own weight figure; no source weighs or identifies the specific truck.
Sources
4 sources: 4 not rated
- 1Frequently Asked Questions...firetruck.center · not rated · cited for: context
- 2How Much Does a Fire Truck Weigh? Weight by Truck Typefirefighternow.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Vancouver Fire Engine & Truck Specs | PDFscribd.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Fire - RCAF.Inforcaf.info · not rated · cited for: context
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