“We have trucks on the large wild land fires in California and Washington State that we often see on TV. They work as much as two to three months around the clock on the front lines. We also currently have two of our trucks on the large wild fire that is burning in the Rock Mountain area of North Carolina and Georgia,” Lowery said.

Lowery, who isn’t an engineer, said years of extreme off-road racing and a resulting hands-on expertise in suspension repair and fabrication have given him an edge — he runs his manufacturing operation out of his own shop on 80 acres off Route 58.

He and a small handful of employees (three full-time and one part-time) start with a Ford or Dodge chassis and then build from the ground up to customer specifications.

The customized brush trucks generally go for $140,000—sometimes more and sometimes less.

Lowery says his team turns out eight to 10 trucks a year.

His customer base, which already included the military and fire departments across the country, is growing, and Lowery doesn’t rule out expansion.

“People who see my trucks in action call and say, ‘We need a couple of those…,’” said Lowery.

“The best marketing strategy we have,” added Lowery, “occurs when a future customer sees our product put to work.”