TASC

In the 1930s Charles Trautwein Sr, ran a truck body fabrication shop near Newark, New Jersey. He would occasionally take jobs modernizing older fire apparatus to extend its utility.

After World War 2 the postwar demand for fire apparatus led him to expand from rebuilding fire apparatus to building new fire apparatus using commercial truck chassis. His son Charles Trautwein Jr soon joined him and the company began to use the acronym TASC short for the Trautwein and Son Company.

The company primarily built on commercial chassis with a large number built on Ford and GMC trucks. In the 1960s they began to build on custom chassis as well.

The company was sold in 1980. In 1985 the company stopped building new apparatus, but it continues to offer repair and refurbishment of fire apparatus.