{"id":11575,"date":"2017-09-14T02:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11575"},"modified":"2017-09-14T02:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T06:31:57","slug":"brick-to-purchase-new-public-works-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/09\/brick-to-purchase-new-public-works-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick to Purchase New Public Works Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3144\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brick_pwd.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3144\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brick_pwd.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Public Works (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brick_pwd.jpg 800w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brick_pwd-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brick_pwd-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brick_pwd-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brick_pwd-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Public Works (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick officials this week decided to solicit and accept bids on several vehicles in order to keep the township\u2019s fleet up to date.<\/p>\n<p>The township council voted to solicit bids on a single axle cab and chassis tow truck, as well as a brush and limb loader with grapple arm. The township will purchase the equipment after the bids are returned.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman James Fozman said the purchase will lead to a more efficient department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to save on manpower since the grappling hook can go out and grab a branch,\u201d Fozman said.<\/p>\n<p>A contract was awarded for a separate vehicle this week. Brick will purchase a Ford F-550 4WD pickup truck with dump body, plus a snowplow package for $118,617 through a national government purchasing cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>The truck will include a salt spreader and liquid calcium speed control dispersal unit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/09\/brick-to-purchase-new-public-works-trucks\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick officials this week decided to solicit and accept bids on several vehicles in order to keep the township\u2019s fleet up to date. The township council voted to solicit bids on a single axle cab and chassis tow truck, as well as a brush and limb loader with grapple arm. The township will purchase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,1385,3055],"class_list":["post-11575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-dump-truck","tag-fleet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brick_pwd.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-30H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}