AMERICAN LAFRANCE MEDICMASTER has begun producing its MedicMaster and RescueMaster Type 1 ambulance
The company has also expanded it Sanford, Florida, Medical Products division distribution warehouse by 25 percent, to 12,000 square feet, and will be ready to process on-line orders by mid-2000. MedicMaster and RescueMaster ambulances are also manufactured at Sanford. The division provides sales, distribution, and service functions for emergency medical supplies and equipment for the fire, emergency service, and other industries.
PIERCE MANUFACTURING, INC., has partnered with Bank One Coporation to develop the Flex Financing Pro
The Turn-In Lease is a municipal lease that features a balloon payment at the end of five or seven years, at which point a fire department may turn in the leased truck for another Pierce vehicle. Pierce guarantees the turn-in value at contract signing, subject to satisfactory terms and conditions. It is structured to provide the lowest annual payment option possible with tax-exempt interest rates.
The Educational Lease program is available to qualified firefighting educational institutions beginning with the Fall 1999 semester. This shortens the term of the standard Turn-In Lease to just three years. The institution may make its balloon payment at that point or turn in its apparatus for a new Pierce.
The Walk-Away Lease, a standard municipal lease with an 81/2-year term, allows the customer to “walk away” after five or seven years with certain terms and conditions. The department pays only for what it uses and gets tax-exempt leasing with no long-term risk.
The ALLISON TRANSMISSION division of General Motors has chosen a 27-acre site for its new parts distribution facility in Indianapolis, Indiana. Located south of the Indianapolis International Airport in the AmeriPlex complex, the site will be home to Allison’s 390,000-square-foot Parts Distribution Center, which will consolidate two distribution facilities in the area. The center is scheduled for completion by the summer of 2000.
