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(Sugar Land, TX – November 22, 2024) Garsite, an industry leader in aviation refueling and ground support equipment, announced it will now offer catering trucks.
Garsite built its catering truck on a Ford 750 Regular Cab chassis with a PTO-driven hydraulic pump, a 7,000-pound capacity scissor lift, telescopic hydraulic cylinders, and an integrated control station, among other features. Freightliner and Navistar chassis options are also available.
“We have been slowly expanding our line of ground service equipment to reflect the needs of our industry, and we are confident that the addition of our catering truck will help to position us as a leading GSE provider,” explained Terry Bosserman Jr., Chief Commercial Officer for Garsite. “In addition to our catering truck, our growing line of GSE includes water trucks, lavatory trucks, water carts, lav carts, and bobtails.”
The catering truck’s 16-foot insulated van body offers optional refrigeration, and a customizable forward service platform is available in fixed, [...]
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(Sugar Land, TX – October 16, 2024) Garsite will have its electric lavatory truck on display at the upcoming NBAA-BACE conference held in Las Vegas, NV from October 22-24, 2024.
The truck sits on a Charlatte P2000E electric chassis and has a stainless steel, dual compartment tank with a 450-gallon (1,700 liter) total capacity. This capacity is made up of a 315-gallon (1,190 liter) waste capacity and a 135-gallon (510 liter) non-potable water capacity. It comes with an available cold weather package, Honda pump package, Fillrite inline meter, 15′ waste hose and coupler, 12′ water hose and coupler, and LED lighting package.
“This is the latest electric offering we have available to meet the industry’s growing interest in electrification,” Chief Commercial Officer for Garsite Terry Bosserman Jr explained. “We also offer an electric av gas refueler, hydrant dispenser, and avgas bowser in addition to our self-contained towable hydrant cart.”
Since 1952, Garsite has been an industry [...]
(Sugar Land, TX – February 29, 2024) Global Aviation Services, LLC, doing business as ProFlo Industries, acquired aviation refueling equipment supplier Garsite and portable restroom vacuum equipment supplier Progress Tank in an equity deal this week. ProFlo Industries is a subsidiary of PrimeFlight Aviation Services Inc.
“This acquisition will bring two of the strongest names in the aviation refueling equipment industry together under the Garsite brand,” said Dan Bucaro, President & CEO of PrimeFlight Aviation Services. “Together, we will be able to deliver a wider range of quality refueling and ground service equipment, an expanded inventory of stock equipment and parts, faster turnaround times, a larger maintenance network, and added engineering support.”
Progress Tank has manufactured truck-mounted equipment used in the refined fuel, heating oil, and liquid waste industries, specializing in vacuum and fuel delivery trucks, since 1922. Starting in 1952, Garsite began manufacturing and assembling aircraft refuelers and hydrant dispensers for in-to-plane fueling companies, oil [...]
