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Originally Posted by Dr Smith
I've often wondered how long the ambulance fleets keep their ones as they obviously work them hard and they carry a constant heavy load I'm assuming.
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It was usually anywhere from 180,000km - 270,000km for a VIC Ambulance - I did my apprenticeship building them, they're much more expensive than a cop car to replace and they get used harder, it's constantly close to it's maximum payload and how many lights and sirens runs a shift they do, heaps.
They'd always be coming in to be decommissioned beaten up, engine lights on etc.
If anyone is in VIC and they see a Sprinter with a big fibre glass rear wing on it with work lights in it - that's one of our old ambulances living on as a courier
The patient transporters used by companies like NPT will go on further, had a few with 700,000 on the clock but they run their vehicles into the ground.