The secondary market for fire apparatus has long run on Facebook groups, newspaper classifieds, and local auctions — one small Texas town budgeted $100,000 for a used truck sale, and Garage got them $1.3 million. On episode 319 of the Smart Firefighting podcast, host Kevin sits down with Garage co-founder and CEO Martin Hunt, who started fighting fires at 15 and left Goldman Sachs to build the marketplace. They cover how the platform earns trust from risk-averse public sector buyers, freight with instant quotes and price lock, AI-powered appraisals ("the Kelley Blue Book for fire trucks"), and the case for taking used apparatus seriously as a procurement strategy.

Smart Firefighting: How Garage Is Fixing the Broken Secondary Market for Fire Apparatus