What is your apparatus worth today?
Value your engine, ambulance, or truck against the units listed right now — before you take a number to the board.
Ready to sell?
Five things we do for departments, none of them billed to you.
Appraisal
A value for your unit and the live listings it was measured against, in writing, free.
Comparable listings
The apparatus competing with yours right now — what they ask, and how they are equipped.
Listing setup
Photos, specs, and description assembled for you. Most departments approve it in one pass.
Paperwork and payment
Bill of sale, title transfer, and funds routed to the department, not to a middleman.
One person to call
A named contact from listing to loaded on the truck, plus the agent for everything in between.
Vehicle details
Asking price is not value
Three units listed right now, each next to the appraised value Garage already holds for it.
2006 · Engines and Pumpers · Connecticut
$65,000 asking, vs $160,000 appraised
59% below appraised value
Appraised
$160,000
Asking
$65,000
1991 · Ladders, Aerials, and Quints · Ohio
$47,000 asking, vs $30,000 appraised
57% above appraised value
Appraised
$30,000
Asking
$47,000
2008 · Ambulances · Michigan
$23,000 asking, vs $15,000 appraised
53% above appraised value
Appraised
$15,000
Asking
$23,000
Appraised values are Garage's own, shown as recorded on the listing. Comparisons are drawn from listings that are active today — Garage keeps no record of completed sales, so nothing here is a sold comp.
Market-driven valuation
Appraisals with their work shown
For fire apparatus, ambulances, command vehicles, sanitation fleets, and the equipment that goes with them.
Priced off live inventory
Every figure traces to listings you can open today, in the same category and spec band.
Specs that move money
Pump capacity, tank size, aerial length, hours. Mileage alone rarely tells the story.
Condition asked, not assumed
Pump test, service records, whether it runs. A blank field is treated as unknown.
Committee-ready
The reasoning comes out as something you can hand to a board, not just a number.
Every category
Apparatus, ambulances, sanitation and heavy duty fleets, and loose equipment.
Minutes, not weeks
Answer what you know and get a range immediately. Refine it whenever you learn more.
Appraisals are estimates drawn from listings that are active today. Condition, certification, and local demand move real prices, and Garage holds no record of completed sales to check against.
FAQs
Questions departments actually ask.
How accurate is the appraisal?
It is a range built from apparatus listed on Garage today in the same category and spec band, and it is only as good as what you can tell us about condition. Two identical pumpers can sit thirty percent apart on a pump test and service history alone. You will always see which listings the range came from, so you can judge it yourself.
Does it use recent sale prices?
No, and no one honestly can here. A unit disappears from the marketplace when it sells, so there is no sold-price history to draw on. Every comparison you see is to inventory that is active right now — that is a real limitation, and we would rather say so than dress up a number.
What actually changes the value?
For apparatus: pump capacity and a current pump test, tank size, aerial length and certification, engine and pump hours, service records, and whether it runs without issue. For ambulances, mileage and box condition dominate. Age matters far less than a chief expects once a unit is past twenty years.
Do I have to list it with Garage afterwards?
No. The appraisal is free and yours to use for a budget request, an insurance file, or a surplus resolution. If you do list, the same specs carry into the listing so you are not typing them twice.